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Mom Gets Shocked After Seeing Her 6-Year-Old Daughter’s Sexist Homework, Rewrites It And Goes Viral
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Mom Gets Shocked After Seeing Her 6-Year-Old Daughter’s Sexist Homework, Rewrites It And Goes Viral

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Lynne Polvino, outraged after reading her 6-year-old daughter’s homework assignment that suggests it’s a mother’s job to stay at home, decided to rewrite the entire text. “I was already feeling pretty frazzled, and when I read the assignment, I almost lost it,” Polvino told TODAY. The worksheet featured a story called Back to Work. It asked Polvino’s first-grade daughter Hazel to choose words from word banks to complete the narrative. “Lisa was not happy,” the opening paragraph stated. “Her mother was back at work.”

“It just pushed so many buttons for me,” Polvino said. “And with each sentence it managed to get worse! My shock and dismay quickly turned to outrage. I mean, what decade are we in, anyway? In this day and age, we’re going to tell kids that mothers working outside the home make their children and families unhappy? That fathers don’t normally do things like cook and wash the dishes?”

Palvino claimed she reworked the story “to reflect the kind of world I want to live in, the kind of world I want my kids to live in when they’re old enough to have jobs and families.” Although she didn’t send her text to the teacher directly, the mom voiced her concerns in an email. The teacher agreed the assignment was outdated, and promised she would review it in the future. Scroll down to compare the original to Polvino’s (who works as a children’s book editor in Manhattan) version and see if you can spot the difference.

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6-year-old Hazel’s mom could not believe her eyes when she read her daughter’s homework assignment

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This is the original

And here’s Polvino’s version of the text

“My shock and dismay quickly turned to outrage. I mean, what decade are we in, anyway?”

“In this day and age, we’re going to tell kids that mothers working outside the home make their children and families unhappy?”

Other people were also disgusted by the worksheet and cheered Polvino’s edit

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Polvino voiced her concerns to the teacher via email. She agreed the assignment was outdated and promised to review it

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Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

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Marta Bessi
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm a proud feminist and still, I don't really see any sexism in that assignement. The only part I would change is the one about the father not cooking good, because it is actually a stupid prejudice about dads (for example mine cooks much better than my mum!). But please, people get shocked very easy lately.

Vanessa Meyer
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This 100% what I was thinking. Its only about a kid missing their mom because of the change of their daily routine... nothing else.

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Sondre Strøm Linde
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, OH MY GOD, this is horrible! The childred doing this assignment will be scarred for life! I mean, the thought of a child wanting one of her parents to be home.. Preposterous! The stoning of raped women in other countries is nothing compared to this horrendous case of sexism!

Marzo Florida
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Im for equality, but what exactly is wrong with this? I dont know any child who WANTS there parents to go to work and leave them...

Captain Planet
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This being posted on boredpanda is what's wrong. They promote this retardedness by allowing posts like these. That mom should live alone on another planet. Then the big bad world can't pick on her. Because everyone is at fault except her thinking.

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Marta Bessi
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm a proud feminist and still, I don't really see any sexism in that assignement. The only part I would change is the one about the father not cooking good, because it is actually a stupid prejudice about dads (for example mine cooks much better than my mum!). But please, people get shocked very easy lately.

Vanessa Meyer
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This 100% what I was thinking. Its only about a kid missing their mom because of the change of their daily routine... nothing else.

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Sondre Strøm Linde
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, OH MY GOD, this is horrible! The childred doing this assignment will be scarred for life! I mean, the thought of a child wanting one of her parents to be home.. Preposterous! The stoning of raped women in other countries is nothing compared to this horrendous case of sexism!

Marzo Florida
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Im for equality, but what exactly is wrong with this? I dont know any child who WANTS there parents to go to work and leave them...

Captain Planet
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This being posted on boredpanda is what's wrong. They promote this retardedness by allowing posts like these. That mom should live alone on another planet. Then the big bad world can't pick on her. Because everyone is at fault except her thinking.

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