Posted on 08/05/2013 6:18:03 AM PDT by Kip Russell
NYC has gone mad.
Are the going to ban “productive” and “worthwhile” to avoid offending many government workers?
This just reenforces why I turned down those jobs in NYC.
All hail multiculturalism!
The word dinosaur made the hit list because dinosaurs suggest evolutionWow; that is a bald-faced lie, Richard Owen notwithstanding.
It is a manifestation of the growth of government
bureaucracy. As a bureaucracy grows the bureaucrats need to put forth more regulations to justify their positions.
So they begin to look for just about anything to regulate, set standards for and so forth.
I just hope they don’t ban “asshat”, “imbecile” or “moonbat”; however, that still leaves “fool”, “pinhead”, “idiot” and “intellectual degenerate”.
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.
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.
From no more dodge ball to no-balls-at-all in one decade.
Leni
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”
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".
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.
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?
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.
I noticed the words “libtard” and “stupidity” were not excluded. Odd.
Many I can understand (not agree with; understanding does not equate to approval) but...”Computers in the home”??? WTF?
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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