Saturday, June 15, 2002

Internet Plagiarism: Reuters reports that
A Canadian teacher has been suspended after shocking a small northern Manitoba school by distributing a math exam that included questions about pimps, prostitutes, machine guns, cocaine trafficking and getting "knocked up."

The math proficiency test included questions such as: "Rufus is a pimp for three girls. If the price is $65 per trick, how many tricks per day must each girl turn to support Rufus' $800 per day crack habit?"

And then there was the trouble with Hector.

"Hector knocked up three girls in his gang. There are 27 girls in his gang. What is the exact percentage of the girls in the gang that Hector knocked up?"
While mildly amusing, the best part is that the exam appears to have been cribbed from a "City of Los Angeles High School Math Proficiency Exam" that has been floating around the Internet for years.