Here's a happy couple...
Posted on 10/31/2005 8:08:55 AM PST by Millee
Amherst Regional High School will stop using the term "freshman" to refer to ninth-grade students because the term is not inclusive enough for some members of the faculty there, according to the Concord Monitor.
Students in ninth grade will now be referred to as ... wait for it ..."ninth-graders" in all official documents and morning announcements.
ARHS Assistant Principal Marta Guevara, who pushed for the change, said the decision to move away fromLee, who immigrated from Korea at age 10,
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The Nova Southeastern University chapter of the national law fraternity Phi Alpha Delta says that it will hold it's fifth annual "Kiss the Pig Charitable Fundraiser" despite complaints from the school's dean, professors and an animal-rights student group that it "traumatizes" the pig in question.
ROTFLMBO!! I didn't know a pig had to be in a committed relationship before it could be kissed.
How about "Freshlings"!
Only if it is heterosexual, otherwise it can have relations with anything at anytime and the state has to sanction it.
How do they get away with calling the girls there Freshmen?
Here's a happy couple...
"Amherst Regional High School will stop using the term "freshman" to refer to ninth-grade students because the term is not inclusive enough for some members of the faculty there, according to the Concord Monitor."
I wonder how many of those are woMEN. Absoloutely the most stupid thing I have heard yet from a public school official.
What are the manifestations of trauma in a pig?
I would have bet the first round of drinks the headline was from NYPOST.
or "Freshfish"?
Sounds very sophmoric to me.
I was thinking Younglings....giving a nod to the Jedi.....
Isn't there an old joke that ends something like this?
The aroma from the skillet.
Or "Fresh Meat?"
This only exists in the back of the mind of a very few people. People of this set are always going to "aware of the possible misogynistic, oppressive or non-inclusive language." no matter what. Why should we allow a handful of mentally inconsistent individuals dictate the use of our language. Our system of words were handed down to us from a body of the academically astute. Why lower our standards?
9th graders, how very simple! Whodathunkit? Well, back in the dark ages when I was in junior high, that's what we were called. Our first year of high school wasn't until 10th grade.
Come to think of it, I've been psychologically damaged by being called a sophomore! Yeah, that's it!
" wonder how many of those are woMEN"
None. They are "womyn."
I was a freshman once, a long time ago. It really sucked. I DEMAND reparations now!
Right. They are no mentally retarded that they can't see that the spelling changes NOTHING.
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