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...!
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To: Kip Russell
To: Kip Russell
Are the going to ban “productive” and “worthwhile” to avoid offending many government workers?
3 posted on
08/05/2013 6:22:02 AM PDT by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Kip Russell
This just reenforces why I turned down those jobs in NYC.
4 posted on
08/05/2013 6:24:07 AM PDT by
tgusa
(gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
To: Kip Russell
Walcott said New York Citys list is longer because its student body is so diverse All hail multiculturalism!
To: Kip Russell
The word dinosaur made the hit list because dinosaurs suggest evolution
Wow; that is a bald-faced lie, Richard Owen notwithstanding.
6 posted on
08/05/2013 6:25:32 AM PDT by
Olog-hai
To: Kip Russell
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.
9 posted on
08/05/2013 6:29:50 AM PDT by
stremba
To: Kip Russell
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.
10 posted on
08/05/2013 6:30:39 AM PDT by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Kip Russell
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
11 posted on
08/05/2013 6:31:39 AM PDT by
MinuteGal
(West-Central Florida Get-Together Brunch - Next Sat. Freepmail me @ "MinuteGal")
To: Kip Russell
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”
12 posted on
08/05/2013 6:32:44 AM PDT by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Kip Russell
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".
To: Kip Russell
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)
To: Kip Russell
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.
15 posted on
08/05/2013 6:36:20 AM PDT by
IronJack
(=)
To: Kip Russell; Revolting cat!; GeronL
Words that suggest wealth are excluded because they could make kids jealous. Poverty is also on the forbidden list. Thats 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 dont have a Mercedes? You think our kids are going to say Im offended; how could they ask me a question about a Mercedes? I dont 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?
To: Kip Russell
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.
To: Kip Russell
I noticed the words “libtard” and “stupidity” were not excluded. Odd.
18 posted on
08/05/2013 6:45:24 AM PDT by
Common Sense 101
(Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
To: Kip Russell
Many I can understand (not agree with; understanding does not equate to approval) but...”Computers in the home”??? WTF?
19 posted on
08/05/2013 6:50:24 AM PDT by
ctdonath2
(Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
To: Kip Russell
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
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22 posted on
08/05/2013 6:52:49 AM PDT by
onyx
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To: Kip Russell
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. Theyre going to meet people from all walks of life and theyre 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.
23 posted on
08/05/2013 6:54:42 AM PDT by
aruanan
To: Kip Russell
“’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!”
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