A photo of a question from a high school health test posted by Slate’s Will Saletan caught our eye. What’s the definition of “family”?
Apparently, it’s literally anything that the test giver wants it to be:
My son was marked down 5 percent on a high school health test because he chose this "incorrect" definition of family. pic.twitter.com/TnisIK51Mm
— Will Saletan (@saletan) July 8, 2015
Oh, come on! How in the world is “A collection of related-by-blood individuals living together” not a correct answer? According to Merriam-Webster, it is:
: a group of people who are related to each other
: a person’s children
: a group of related people including people who lived in the past
Is this brainwashing by the public school system? Tweeters sure think so:
WTF? Madness! This is what's wrong with our society today. Brainwash kids to fit the agenda of the left. Horrible! https://t.co/3pLaYmXeL3
— The Lona Mori (@TheLonaMori) July 8, 2015
Common Core strikes again. Watch the brainwashing of our American children inherent in the system. #rednationrising https://t.co/HA8LWPTLZY
— ❌Rolliby???OrangeCrush (@rolliby) July 8, 2015
People who don't believe your kids are brainwashed in public schools? Read on. https://t.co/bhcr3v0dAF
— Jeff Brokaw (@jeffbrokaw2013) July 8, 2015
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Between non involved parents and ridiculous curriculum like this – public schools keep getting worse. https://t.co/rIB8tE43TY
— BigC (@BigCFinancial) July 8, 2015
https://twitter.com/bctswg/status/618607073840996353
And this made us laugh. It’s the Vin Diesel-as-patriarch definition of family maybe?
https://twitter.com/petersuderman/status/618606454136807424
https://twitter.com/danielwinlander/status/618608924380368896/photo/1
@danielwinlander That's exactly the movie he quoted, when he was laughing about the "correct" answer.
— Will Saletan (@saletan) July 8, 2015
More snark and outrage:
Was his teacher raised by the Manson Family? https://t.co/mDRroo16I3
— Nick Gillespie (@nickgillespie) July 8, 2015
The question is a subjective question and the "correct" answer is ambiguous https://t.co/KyPpDiAYql
— Jamal (@JajaPhD) July 8, 2015
https://twitter.com/BrowningMachine/status/618786969401688064
A Family is:
a – What we tell you it is, and you'll accept our ideology OR ELSE. https://t.co/Kpsf69n9sr— Delance (@delance2) July 8, 2015
https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/618775504804532224
HOLY SHIT. https://t.co/fdAbbmYh5Z
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) July 8, 2015
https://twitter.com/Braivoman/status/618731566920007681
https://twitter.com/ad_proelium/status/618616327482159104
Wow, that "correct" answer is meaningless. I guess we're all family here. https://t.co/SdWV4BRSdJ
— 亚历山大南瓜时间 (@MrAlAnderson) July 8, 2015
Even Jonathan Chait has a problem with (e) as the correct answer:
@saletan (e) does seem expansive (could define friends or even coworkers as family). Also excludes families that don't care for each other.
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) July 8, 2015
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