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A Michigan high school teacher has been placed on administrative leave after she gave students a worksheet that compared Barack Obama to apes, monkeys and lemurs.
The Roeper School in Birmingham suspended the Asian Pacific biology female after her failure to ban the classroom activity, deemed racist and biased, caused outrage among parents and city officials.
The teacher at the $30,000-a-year school said she downloaded the worksheet from Duke University's website and inadvertently handed it out.
The activity asked 30 students to spot the primate. Among the pictures displayed were apes, monkeys, lemurs and a photo of the 44th POTUS.
The worksheet was created by undergrad graduates at Duke in 2010, just a year into Obama's presidency, and has since been removed from the website.
'It made me feel disgusted - I couldn't believe it,' Roeper's director of diversity at Carolyn Lett told Fox 2. 'When I first saw it, I'm trying to make sense of it myself.'
'When this was brought to her attention she was horrified herself, and almost like beating herself up, like 'How did I miss this,' she
