WINNIPEG, Manitoba - A Canadian teacher has been suspended after shocking a
small northern Manitoba school by distributing a math exam that included
questions about pimps, prostitutes, machine guns, cocaine trafficking and
getting "knocked up."

The math proficiency test included questions such as: "Rufus is a pimp for
three girls. If the price is $65 per trick, how many tricks per day must
each girl turn to support Rufus' $800 per day crack habit?"

And then there was the trouble with Hector.

"Hector knocked up three girls in his gang. There are 27 girls in his gang.
What is the exact percentage of the girls in the gang that Hector knocked up?"

Parents of the 13-year-old and 14-year old students who attend Juniper
School in Thompson, Manitoba, said they were outraged.

And the province's minister of education, Drew Caldwell, said he was
"disturbed."

The exam, which asked students for their name, gang name and home room, was
fast becoming the talk of this nickel-mining community of 15,000 people 800
kilometers north of Winnipeg.

Supplied with the exact speed of travel and the number of seconds it takes
to load a shot gun, another test question asked students to calculate the
distance, Billie, a skateboard thief, would be able to flee before getting
"whacked."

Newspaper reports said that board members at the Mystery Lake School
District stripped the veteran teacher of her classroom duties at a meeting
earlier this week. She was also suspended without pay for three days.

The test appeared to be modeled after an exam called "The City of Los
Angeles High School Math Proficiency Exam," found on an Internet joke site.