Talking pineapple question on state exam stumps ... everyone!
Students, teachers, principals - no one has any idea what the deal is
Comments (35)BY BEN CHAPMAN AND RACHEL MONAHAN / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
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Do you need ears of corn to hear a talking pineapple? Maybe testing company Pearson has the answer.
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Was the question about a talking pineapple absurd?
Students across the state are still scratching their heads over an absurd state test question about a talking pineapple.
The puzzler on the eighth-grade reading exam stumped even educators and has critics saying the tests, which are becoming more high stakes, are flawed.
“I think it’s weird that they put such a silly question on a state test. What were they thinking?” said Bruce Turley, 14, an eighth-grader at Lower Manhattan Community Middle School.
“I thought it was a little strange, but I just answered it as best as I could,” said his classmate Tyree Furman, 14. “You just have to give it your best answer. These are important tests.”
In the story, a take-off on Aesop’s fable about the tortoise and the hare, a talking pineapple challenges a hare to a race. The other animals wager on the immobile pineapple winning — and ponder whether it’s
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