A historic Michigan private school is facing scrutiny after a teacher gave students an assignment where it included a past U.S. president in a multiple-choice worksheet about apes and monkeys. The school addressed the lesson, claiming the teacher did not create it and pulled it from a “highly regarded university.”
According to FOX 2, earlier in the month a high school biology teacher at The Roeper School, a private institution in the Detroit suburb of Birmingham whose tuition and fees amount to $30,000 per student a year, passed out material for an “Ape, Monkey, and Lemurs: Introduction to Primates” lesson. The sheet included various kinds of primates, including apes, monkeys, lemurs, and one Homo sapien. The Homo sapien was past president Barack Obama.
After the pre-course survey was distributed, students were instructed to answer the questions to the best of their capacity.
The first question was “Who’s who? Which of the following are primates? It asked the class to “check all that apply” and included a peacock, prairie dog, a chimpanzee, porcupine, a monkey, the 44th president, and a lemur.
Shortly after class, the worksheet went viral, with social media users expressing outrage.
“The Roeper School in Birmingham Michigan is a disgrace. They are teaching racism and bigotry in school assignments! The GOP is worried about CRT that isn’t taught in schools. Here is an example of why children grow into racist adults!” one person tweeted.
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