[Kip Russell]

An article from last year, but still illustrative of the idiocy of being politically incorrect. Good luck writing a history test that bans all of the above...!

[afraidfortherepublic]

NYC has gone mad.

[thackney]

Are the going to ban “productive” and “worthwhile” to avoid offending many government workers?

[tgusa]

This just reenforces why I turned down those jobs in NYC.

[Altura Ct.]

Walcott said New York City’s list is longer because its student body is so diverse

All hail multiculturalism!

[Olog-hai]

The word “dinosaur” made the hit list because dinosaurs suggest evolution …

Wow; that is a bald-faced lie, Richard Owen notwithstanding.

[stremba]

My irony meter is going off the charts here. The schools are preparing kids for dealing with a world in which there is a wide diversity of people and situations by ... sheltering them from anything that might offend them or be different from their own experiences. Wow, just wow.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I do not believe for one second that the words “dinosaur,” “Halloween” and “dancing” are on the list to avoid offending Christian sensibilities. It is a qualification to work in the education establishment, especially in the Northeast, to go out of your way to offend Christians and to “stand up” to any hint that Christians don’t want something being taught, as if the scenes from Hollywood movies where teaching “The Catcher in the Rye” resulted in an angry mob of fussy old church ladies being led by a sanctimonious, dogmatic reverend appearing in the school lobby.

[MinuteGal]

Our nation's kids are being so over-protected from the dangers, ills and realities of life that by the time they're adults they're going to be formless globules of clear jelly without spines or brains.

From no more dodge ball to no-balls-at-all in one decade.

Leni

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I hear there’s a second list of words and phrases that are absolutely forbidden to be taught to kids in public schools:

1. “Cut spending”

2. “Standardized testing”

3. “Retire at age 66”

4. “Administrative redundancy”

[a fool in paradise]

The word “dinosaur” made the hit list because dinosaurs suggest evolution which creationists might not like

Phony argument. It neither promotes evolution nor denies God as Creator. I suspect this was added to make Christians look "kooky".

Dinosaurs existed. More extinct species. Some of the diagrams of dinosaurs are complete conjecture. But the notion of A dinosaur is not "evidence of evolution".

[Buckeye McFrog]

In a throwback to “Footloose,” the word “dancing” is also taboo. However, there is good news for kids that like “ballet”: The city made an exception for this form of dance.

Why, seems like just yesterday they were pressing to ban the word "pirouette" from the SAT's for being "racist" (black people far too STOOOOOOPID to ever know what that word means according to our Liberal overlords)

[IronJack]

The New York City Department of Education isn’t doing this. Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott is doing this. Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott is doing this because Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott is a cowardly PC bureaucrat. Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott should be the target of peoples’ ire if they agree that this idiotic brainwashing is a waste of taxpayer effort.

[a fool in paradise]

Words that suggest wealth are excluded because they could make kids jealous. “Poverty” is also on the forbidden list. That’s something Sy Fliegal with the Center for Educational Innovation calls ridiculous. “The Petersons take a vacation for five days in their Mercedes … so what? You think our kids are going to be offended because they don’t have a Mercedes? You think our kids are going to say ‘I’m offended; how could they ask me a question about a Mercedes? I don’t have a Mercedes!’” Fliegal said.

Kids who spend all day watching thuggish rappers "rollin'" in their Mercedes and Bentleys on MTV and BET?

They are gonna be offended because they don't have a Mercedes yet?

How about it becoming an incentive for them to work hard and earn some big money to spend on things they want?

[The Great RJ]

I was surprised that the words pig, swine, hog, bacon, ham, pork chops, BBQ ribs, pork sausage and any mention of the Iowa Pork Producers aren’t banned because we all know who would be offended by that.

[Common Sense 101]

I noticed the words “libtard” and “stupidity” were not excluded. Odd.

[ctdonath2]

Many I can understand (not agree with; understanding does not equate to approval) but...”Computers in the home”??? WTF?

[Redmen4ever]

I guess the following exam question is out:

A 14-year old child is shot dead during a home invasion. If his mother has two surviving children under the age of 18, how much is her EBT cut?

(a) yo moma
(b) $50 per month
(c) I don’t do cursive
(d) you tell me

[onyx]

Schools' Chancellor Dennis Walcott

PLEASE SUPPORT FR TODAY!

[aruanan]

Julie Lewis’ family celebrates Christmas and Kwanzaa, but she told CBS 2′s Emily Smith she wants her children to appreciate and learn about other holidays and celebrations. “They’re going to meet people from all walks of life and they’re going to have to learn to adjust,” Lewis said.

Poor moron. If she put more time into learning the background of Kwanzaa she would actually be able to help her kids learn to "appreciate" other holidays and celebrations.

[paterfamilias]

“’Halloween’ is targeted because it suggests paganism”

Now this guy, who is an “educator” apparently has no idea that “halloween” means “the evening before All Saints’ Day” - this is hardly a pagan reference. However, it would then be banned because it is a religious reference.

And they wonder why people home-school their kids.

As a wise woman I know likes to point out (at least a few times daily): “We are surrounded by idiots!”