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A discussion among students at Oberlin High School in Oberlin, La., about a mathematical symbol led to a police investigation and a search of one of the student’s homes, according to the Allen Parish Sheriff’s Office.On the afternoon of Feb. 20, detectives investigated a report of terroristic threats at the school, where they learned that a student had been completing a math problem that required drawing the square-root sign.Students in the group began commenting that the symbol, which represents a number that when multiplied by itself equals another number, looked like a gun . . .
This isn't a joke ? Hoax? Satire?
The young snowflakes are been successfully indoctrinated.
That may be, but a sixth grader should have been mathematically literate enough to recognize the square root symbol. If these were high school students, WTF are their teachers doing???
Who called the police, and what was the teacher doing during this?
A scene from the movie “idioocracyâ€? Next thing you know they will ban the play “Annie get your gun†and the song “happiness is a warm gunâ€
Next thing you know they will ban the play “Annie get your gun†and the song “happiness is a warm gunâ€
Annie take your square rootHappiness is a warm square root
Don't Take Your Square Root to TownThe Square Roots of BrixtonJanie's Got a Square RootBo Diddley is a Square Root SlingerI Square Rooted the SheriffLawyers, Square Roots, and MoneySquare Roots on the RoofGod and Square RootsSquare Root the Blue SkyMachine Square RootSquare Root Packin' Mama. . . and always remember, Mao Tse-tung said political power springs from the barrel of a square root.
There is excuse for being ignorant as these kids are, as well as any teacher responsible for their education.