Wisconsin talk show host Vicki McKenna uncovered an odious school assignment for an English class where students are told to choose who dies based on a hypothetical lifeboat situation. Some of the factors that the students are taught to ponder include the race and religion of the survivors, including a Mormon who “sympathizes with anti-black views.”

The assignment can be seen below:

#CommonCore aligned ENGLISH assignment for S.MKE HS: pick survivors on a lifeboat based on EXTERNAL factors like race pic.twitter.com/qBoemAsP4z — Vicki Mckenna (@VickiMcKenna) October 18, 2013

Heaven forbid that students understand how to spell correctly or bother to read good literature!

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