Not so much a bad homework question issue as a bad teacher issue...

DD9 asked me to quiz her on a geography study guide, all of which was review from last year, and should be easy. And it was, up until we got to:

Me: Which hemispheres are we in?

DD: North.

Me: And?

DD: East. [pause] No, west.

Me: (sensing she may have changed because she saw a reaction from me) Are you sure?

DD: East.

Obviously she was guessing, and in pressing her on it, I found out that her teacher had told her that the prime meridian went all the way around the earth. [facepalm] That would beg the question... east or west of WHAT? DD told me this same teacher told her the same thing last year, and when the teacher repeated it in class that morning, several of the students who hadn't had her last year went, "HUH??"

For any who remember some of my earlier posts, this is the teacher DD calls "the vampire."