. - gwinnett county parents are outraged tonight over third grade math homework.ee had 56 oranges. "if 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?" then there was another. "if frederick got 2 beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in 1 week?" - okay, okay. first of all, 2 beatings times 7, that's 14 beatings. but secondly, slavery is too serious to just casually drop into math problems. and by the way, i'm not just worried about how inappropriate those questions are. i'm worried about how it's escalating. like, first it's just picking oranges. next it's beatings. you know, if the next question starts out with "8 men in white robes show up to frederick's house," run! so look. obviously these assignments aren't treating slavery with the weight it deserves. but it turns out some teachers go too far in the opposite direction. - she singled out black students, told them to lie on the floor, and stepped on their backs to show them "how it is to be a slave." - a controversial lesson about slavery has been pulled from a cerritos high school. -