"It isn't polite to ask someone's weight, or to shame someone for their weight, or to compare two people's weight to their face, or make fun of people's weight behind their back. That's private, and people can have strong feelings about that. But we're not doing that here, are we?" -> Pivot into times when people who worry about numbers have to work with weight data, and that's okay -> Congratulate for being so thoughtful -> The end
If mentioning weight in a completely hypothetical and impassively written math problem *is* a taboo, then what actually isn't? Keep in mind that for the reasons I mentioned -- let's throw in actuarial work! -- people *actually do math on people's weight in their actual jobs in real life*.
Of course how many people that say that are offended by a football player kneeling, or a computer game being exclusive to a particular online store?
There is nothing that being in 4th grade introduces into the situation that would preclude having a normal-ass discussion about this in which you try to describe the real world for a couple minutes.
Nah. "Your little example here" is though. Hopefully, you are normally able to behave more according to your ideals.
Condescending and dismissive. Your posts are just top-notch stuff.
While I believe the subject matter of the word problem should've been about something different, the main thing I'm seeing is a Fox affiliate with a headline framed as though this is a Common Core problem.
It isn't polite to condescend. That's private, and people can have strong feelings about that. But we're not doing that here, are we?
It doesn't though. It doesn't assign "value" to any of the weights through context (aka saying the lightest weight is preferable or something like that) and is merely statistical. It doesn't "play into" anything, but making weight taboo certainly does.
The "point" is that they wrote "common core" in the headline and they're hoping to bring in clicks from angry right wingers. I mean, the story is basically "kid reports offensive math problem. teacher agrees and removes problem without penalizing kid".
lol okay. That word salad was sorta fun, but generally, pithiness and snark works better when you are making a modicum of sense when you talk. Honestly not even sure what you're trying to do/say here. :shruggie:
yeah man, this is kinda dumb imo. Weird that anything you feel offended by can just be justified these days. "Black" friday is offensive, "Great White" shark is offensive... but the real working world don't work this way man.
Thing is, no one is that concerned about weight. Tyra Banks weighed 160 in her heyday. People care about fat.
No. There's a 50% chance the question uses girls or boys. I just googled "math word problem boys weight" and quickly found:
