(Baltimore Sun) Baltimore County public school leaders have removed an image depicting a negative stereotype of people who practice Islam from the school system’s online math curriculum.
The lesson in question centered on a mathematical concept called radical expressions. An image featuring three adolescent girls wearing headscarves next to the words “radicals are for adding and subtracting” was included in the public school system’s online pre-college math curriculum, and has since been removed.
In a statement provided by spokesman Charlie Herndon, the Baltimore County school district said it learned March 16 of the “unacceptable and harmful image” and opened an investigation into the matter. The image was placed in the learning materials following a digital rewriting of [the] curriculum in anticipation of distance learning necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
