WorldNetDaily Study: 'Language police' harming childrenActivists helping produce bored, cynical, 'dumbed down' students Posted: May 10, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Activist groups acting as "language police" are exerting increasing control over American schools, resulting in bored, cynical and "dumbed down" children, according to a three-year study of education policy. Diane Ravitch, author of "The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn," notes the classic children's story "The Little Engine That Could" has been banned in some U.S. jurisdictions because the train is male, the National Post reported. "The Little Engine that Could" barred because train is male....