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Three Texas teachers are on administrative leave after “derogatory and hurtful” language about Chinese culture was used on a middle school quiz.
Joy Lim, a 2018 Carrollton Creekview High School graduate, posted a screenshot to social media of a question that appeared on her sister’s sixth-grade online quiz.
In it, the children - who would be aged around 11 to 12 - were asked “Which one of these Chinese NORM is TRUE?” with the options including cutting off people’s lips for burping, caning children for stealing sweets, and eating dogs and cats.
Lim posted the picture to social media on Tuesday afternoon, calling the quiz “ridiculous”.


my sister’s 6th grade social studies class took a quiz today and......... this is ridiculous.. harmful rhetoric in our education system is exactly why anti-asian hate crimes and racism persist today @CFBISD @BlalackMS do better pic.twitter.com/MCIjc0WI3z
— joy (@joyjuheelim) March 30, 2021

“[H]armful rhetoric in our education system is exactly why anti-[A]sian hate crimes and racism persist today,” she wrote.
The Texas school district issued a statement on Wednesday saying the “inappropriate language about Asian-Americans” was “derogatory and hurtful”.
The three teachers will be on leave until an investigation is completed, the statement said. Meanwhile, the district will enhance a recently launched diversity training initiative “in an effort to create a more inclusive and respectful environment”.
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“Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD values our diverse community of learners and staff,” the statement said. “Actions or language disrespecting any people group are not acceptable and do not represent our core belief system.”
Lim, a University of Richmond student who is attending classes remotely, said she worried about the social studies instruction for her 12-year-old sister, a student at Blalack Middle School, when the class started a unit on China.
“The language that was being used when the teacher was talking about the Covid-19 virus and where it had originated in China, very broad generalisation were being made, and I was uncomfortable where the teacher could take this,” she said.



“This is a classroom full of 11- and 12-year-olds, and I was really disappointed that this language was being used in the quiz, painting such harmful and negative stereotypes.
“Even for the Asian-American students in the classroom, how are they going to internalise this?”
Lim, whose family is Korean-American, said several former teachers from CFISD reached out to her over the past 24 hours to offer their apologies and assurances that such language has no place in their classrooms. No apology has come from the district, apart from a copy of the statement, she said.
A report released on March 16 – the same day as the Atlanta-area massage parlour shootings – from the national coalition Stop AAPI Hate found nearly 3,800 recorded incidents of verbal and online harassment and physical assault against Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders nationwide over the past year, up 15 per cent from the previous year. Chinese-Americans were the most targeted group, accounting for 42 per cent of the incidents.
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In recent weeks, two rallies have been held in North Texas highlighting the spike in hate crimes against the AAPI community. Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson proclaimed on March 26 “Stop Asian Hate Day” in the city.
Lim said she’s definitely seen a rise in racist activity against the Asian community, but also an increase “in people speaking out.”
“That’s a really positive outcome of this,” she said. “We need people to be speaking out more, standing up against this and not just brushing it under the rug.”


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Joy Lim, a university student, posted a screenshot to social media of a question that appeared on her sister’s sixth-grade online quiz
The Texas school district said the language used was ‘derogatory and hurtful’, adding the three Carrollton-Farmers Branch teachers will be on leave



Joy Lim, a university student, posted a screenshot to social media of a question that appeared on her sister’s sixth-grade online quiz.


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