PETALING JAYA, May 22 -- A teacher in the United States has been put on administrative leave after an assignment showing former President Barack Obama with monkeys.

CNN reported that the teacher in a Michigan school had given a worksheet last week featuring Obama's picture that was included among pictures of several animals.

Students had to identify the primate among all the pictures given including the former president's picture in the worksheet titled 'Apes, Monkeys, and Lemurs: An Introduction to Primates.'

Located about 40 kilometres northwest of Detroit's city, The Roeper School where the teacher works was described as a 'uniquely, personalised, co-educational school for gifted and talented children in preschool till grade 12'.

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