[freebilly]

Bowlderization rears its ugly head....

[Paul Atreides]

Winston Smith would be at home in this country.

[Tuor]

"When I saw that," Ms. Heifetz said, "I really thought they had lost their minds."

They haven't lost their minds. They know what they are doing. That is the fact that people need to face. They are trying to achieve a certain sort of product: a certain mindset in the student. This is one of their means to accomplishing that goal.

They haven't lost their minds. They aren't stupid. They aren't confused. This is what they want.

Tuor

[TomGuy]

No, those tests are made up using passages from that soon to be published, future best-seller: My Personal Thoughts and Recollections, by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

[Fish out of Water]

*Index Bump

[Bubba_Leroy]

Shouldn't that be "The Elderly Person and the Sea?"

I'm just wating for all the government schools that expel kids for drawing pictures of guns to start burning history books that contain pictures of people with guns.

[PJ-Comix]

"The changes are made to satisfy the sensitivity guidelines the department uses, so no student will be "uncomfortable in a testing situation," she said.

And I bet some of you thought that Politically Correct Bedtime Stories was mere satire.

[MrNeutron1962]

We are truly doomed. The mohamidan barbarians are at the gates and we have to destroy our own culture to satisfy a whining group of malcontents. I'm weeping for my country.

[nimdoc]

Thank my luck stars!

I can sleep better at night knowing that our youth will not be traumatized by reality.

Maybe someday the great American Melting Pot will finally boil down to a cesspool of mediocrity. Then we can all feel real good about ourselves.

[livius]

omigod. This appeared in the New York Times, the paper that was probably one of the leaders in PC and one of the parties responsible for the Bowdlerization of the universe?

Actually, reading the NYT over the last few months, the only positive thing I can say about Sept. 11 is that it prompted the NYT to reexamine some of its knee-jerk liberal attitudes. The Times has done some incredible reporting on 9/11, more than deserving of a Pulitzer, and I have detected large gusts of common sense blowing through areas that had been, up to now, seriously air-conditioned against them.

[IronJack]

Didn't Joe Stalin used to practice this kind of cultural expurgation?

[PJ-Comix]

I wonder what I The Jury would look like if these PC clowns ever get their hands on it.

[Charles Henrickson]

I think the play, Twelve Angry Men, has been redone as, Twelve Angry Persons. I'm serious. Of course, you would never have a jury made up of twelve men nowadays, anyhow (let alone twelve white men).

[concerned about politics]

They don't dare teach History anymore. Now it's social studies . "Feelings" of our forefathers are so much more educational. (barf, puke, hack, gag on a spoon).

[dighton]

After making her discovery, Ms. Heifetz contacted most of the affected authors or their publishers, and found them angered that their words had been tampered with without their consent.

Good. I hope the guilty "educational" vandals get their asses sued off.

[The Great RJ]

I recently attended a high school drama production of Agatha Cristie's "Ten Little Indians". Of course this title was politically incorrect (particularly in South Dakota where Indian, excuse me Native American, nick names for sports teams are taboo)and the play was alternately billed as "Then There Were None"

Strangely the Indian motif that was central to the play was changed to "ten little Bengali boys" --apparently there aren't enough natives of India here to be offended.

[BluH2o]

The Elderly Man and the Sea?

How about "Geezerville resident and the sea?" or "Old codger and the sea?". ;o)

[Congressman Billybob]

What a terrific piece of work by a bright, dedicated, but ordinary American. The main thing I do with my time is to write. I would sue the socks off of anyone who claimed to be quoting me, but took the obscene liberty of changing my words because they thought someone "might be offended."

Dick Gregory entitled his autobiography, Nigger, Nigger, precisely to make a point. Would the Board of Regents change that to Negro, Negro? Or perhaps this, which comes trippingly off the tongue, African-American, African-American?

The New York Regents Exam writers have just demonstrated that they are as dumb as a box of rocks, and as useless as tits on a bull. And you can quote me.

Congressman Billybob

Click for latest, "Home of the Rocket Boys."

[aruanan]

The State Education Department, which prepares the exams, acknowledged modifying excerpts to satisfy elaborate "sensitivity review guidelines" that have been in use for decades, but are periodically revised. It said it did not want any student to feel ill at ease while taking the test.

It's time the State Education Department be revised.

[aruanan]

The State Education Department, which prepares the exams, acknowledged modifying excerpts to satisfy elaborate "sensitivity review guidelines" that have been in use for decades, but are periodically revised. It said it did not want any student to feel ill at ease while taking the test.

It's time the State Education Department be revised.