[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

[goldstategop]

PC has invaded literature and texts have been censored, bowdlerized, and excerpt to purge it of all offending ideas and images because the PC police genuinely believe they're doing a public service and they also think that people (especially minorities) don't want to be exposed to what are regarded as concepts and ideas that insult or degrade their dignity and self-image. If this is what the New York State Education Department is doing with its tests, I'd hate to imagine what the situation must be like in the rest of the country.

[3catsanadog]

Why don't we just lobotomize everyone from now on? Then everyone will be emotionally dead towards everyone else, peace will fill the earth, and we can all sing and hold hands.

[paix]

This article reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut's short story Harrison Bergeron. Wonder how they would sanitize that one?

[Eva]

You're right, there is a method to their madness. They are attempting to achieve a sort of dumbed down homogenization of America's youth through polictically correct brainwashing and mediocre education.