NYC bans references to Dinosaurs, Birthdays, Halloween, Dancing in standardized tests

[mookiemookie]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/26/new-york-city-bans-refere_n_1380991.html

In an effort to eliminate potential "unpleasant emotions" among students, the New York Department of Education has placed a ban on mentions of "birthdays," "dinosaurs," "Halloween," and "dancing," in city-issued tests, the New York Post reports.

According to the paper, the mandate is meant to curb fear that references to those topics might stir controversy among students. Dinosaurs, officials said, could bring up evolution, Halloween could suggest paganism, and birthdays might create animosity among students who are Jehovah's witnesses, since they don't celebrate them.

Are you kidding me? This is absolutely insane...

[Catfish]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/26/new-york-city-bans-refere_n_1380991.html
Are you kidding me? This is absolutely insane...

But this is what the US is all about :D
I can foresee evolution truthers' slogans like "Dinosaurs - we will remember them !"

[vienna]

Um, I'd like to get into college without taking a standardized test because tests might breed unhealthy competition, might cause angst over categorization of people, are against my religious principles, and I don't do very well on those types of tests... :D

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[mookiemookie]

I can just see a room full of students choking back the tears because a test mentioned a birthday party.

[MH]

:hmmm:
Nah...
There must be a mistake...it is New York not New Mecca.

[vienna]

I can just see a room full of students choking back the tears because a test mentioned a birthday party.


Just wait 'til you get into your 60s and see if birthdays don't choke you up... :D

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[mookiemookie]

Just wait 'til you get into your 60s and see if birthdays don't choke you up... :D

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:rotfl2: Touché!

[Blood_splat]

But this is what the US is all about :D
I can foresee evolution truthers' slogans like "Dinosaurs - we will remember them !"

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/02d576f2c1/never-forget-dinosaur-psa
:O:

[Penguin]

Looks like NYC doen't have the brightest bunch working in their departments, here's another failure:
NYC Bans Food Donations To The Homeless (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/19/bloomberg-strikes-again-nyc-bans-food-donations-to-the-homeless/)
:damn:

[Biggles]

Looks like NYC doen't have the brightest bunch working in their departments, here's another failure:
NYC Bans Food Donations To The Homeless (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/19/bloomberg-strikes-again-nyc-bans-food-donations-to-the-homeless/)
:damn:

I honestly expected something of the Onion. I'm speechless :o

[u crank]

Looks like NYC doen't have the brightest bunch working in their departments, here's another failure:
NYC Bans Food Donations To The Homeless (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/19/bloomberg-strikes-again-nyc-bans-food-donations-to-the-homeless/)
:damn:

I guess they are worried that a homeless guy might have a massive stroke and then sue the city. Seems legit to me.:O:

[TLAM Strike]

:hmmm:
Nah...
There must be a mistake...it is New York not New Mecca.


It is on the road to it that's for sure... (http://villagemedina.org/content)

[Stealhead]

I am going to a birthday party on Halloween dressed as a dinosaur that enjoys dancing my date will be dressed as a Jehovahs Witness.

[mookiemookie]

I am going to a birthday party on Halloween dressed as a dinosaur that enjoys dancing my date will be dressed as a Jehovahs Witness.

You're going to traumatize a New York City schoolkid.

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Really? If New York City has time for this kind of "decisions" then their bureaucracy has over staffing problem.

[vienna]

Really? If New York City has time for this kind of "decisions" then their bureaucracy has over staffing problem.


You see, the problem is with the decision makers at the top, not the general bureaucracy; the lower- to mid-level personnel have to takes test and be verified as being qualified and competent to at least minimally perform their duties. The decision makers at the top, who are either elected or appointed with no such vetting process, just have to be popular... :DL

[Skybird]

http://smiliestation.de/smileys/Fies/5.gif (http://smiliestation.de/)

[TLAM Strike]

As long as they replace them with questions like "Find F where F = G (m1 * m1/r^2) using the following masses at the specified distance" then I'll be happy.

[Diopos]

The idiots have won!

Uhmmm can I use the word "idiot" officer?

:damn:

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[U570]

The idiots have won!

Uhmmm can I use the word "idiot" officer?

:damn:

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No, because it insults stupid people:D. This article says to me- over the top political correctness :nope:

[GoldenRivet]

Americas headlong march into the abyss continues.

I guess I'll sit on my porch drinking, watching, smiling, munching pop corn until those in power outlaw my own ass from underneath me.

[TLAM Strike]

I guess I'll sit on my porch drinking, watching, smiling, munching pop corn until those in power outlaw my own ass from underneath me. If they outlaw asses then only outlaws will have asses... :03:


...wait... :doh:

[GoldenRivet]

Lets hope ass doesnt get outlawed.

:D

[Penguin]

I guess I'll sit on my porch drinking, watching, smiling, munching pop corn [...]

I think this is totally offensive towards the porchless, non-drinking, blind, unhappy people with no teeth! :know:

[vienna]

If they outlaw asses...


Good lord, that would mean the end of government, talk radio, Fox News, and most of the people who are driving on the road at the same time i'm driving!... :D

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[u crank]

I guess I'll sit on my porch drinking, watching, smiling, munching pop corn until those in power outlaw my own ass from underneath me.

Excellent game plan.:DL

Political correctness: a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority,and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition, that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

[GoldenRivet]

Good lord, that would mean the end of government, talk radio, all media, and most of the people who are driving on the road at the same time i'm driving!... :D

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fixed

and agreed :up:


i dont see how any of it would be a bad thing either - perhaps all those drivers will weed each other out

[krashkart]

What a bunch of saps. How am I supposed to take my own country seriously if people in charge keep coming up with hare-brained ideas like this? :nope:

[Penguin]

Excellent game plan.:DL

Political correctness: a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority,and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition, that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

In my experience, the people who feel offended the most are usually the ones who don't belong to the group which they claim to "defend" - as if minorities can't speak for themselves and need some paternalistic guardian angels. :shifty:
Want to hear the best jokes about a certain group? Spend a night drinking with them!:DL

[u crank]

In my experience, the people who feel offended the most are usually the ones who don't belong to the group which they claim to "defend" - as if minorities can't speak for themselves and need some paternalistic guardian angels. :shifty:
:DL

Yea, and what's worse they usually do it for their own personal gain, to look good around the other PC cops. My problem is my age, half the time I don't know how not to be incorrect. I sure hope I don't have to take a damn course.:haha:

[U570]

What a bunch of saps. How am I supposed to take my own country seriously if people in charge keep coming up with hare-brained ideas like this? :nope:
Does the "Pizza is a vegetable" thing count as a reason to move country:hmmm::DL

[kiwi_2005]

NYC is now Jehovah Witness City :shifty:

[krashkart]

Does the "Pizza is a vegetable" thing count as a reason to move country:hmmm::DL

:haha:

I'll just stay here until craft/microbrew beer is outlawed for being too tasty. After that I guess it would be onward to Europe... and victory. :D:yeah:

[nikimcbee]

NYC is now Jehovah Witness City :shifty:


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[MH]

What about donkeys...are they legal?
Can you refer to someone as donkey?

[Task Force]

Have they banned stupid yet? Because If they have they better start packin they're bags...

According to the paper, the mandate is meant to curb fear that references to those topics might stir controversy among students. Dinosaurs, officials said, could bring up evolution, Halloween could suggest paganism, and birthdays might create animosity among students who are Jehovah's witnesses, since they don't celebrate them. So, they banned all that, yea. But why dancing.

[krashkart]

So, they banned all that, yea. But why dancing.

Maybe because some kids can't dance for one reason or another. Wouldn't want to hurt a kid's feelings and thereby disrupt their learning experience. :06:


In a way I'm glad I don't have kids, because they would be learning things more or less the way I was taught. That might make them too rough around the edges for some schools.

[Task Force]

If people are that sensitive... yea... then there is something seriously wrong with this generation.

[AngusJS]

It's a sad day when dinosaurs, the coolest animals ever, make kids uncomfortable.

Religious indoctrination and PC idiocy strike again.

[Torplexed]

I fear for this generation of kids who are being shielded from any unpleasantness through their youth. Your world view and outlook need to be gradually exposed to a complicated world to learn coping skills, the same way your immune system needs to be exposed to germs in order to function properly. When these kids graduate and hit the job market it's gonna be like stripping Bubble Boy of his bubble and tossing him into a typhoid ward. Not pretty.

[u crank]

What about donkeys...are they legal?
Can you refer to someone as donkey?

You can if you meet the following conditions:

1. You must ask permission first.
2. You must submit a written apology in advance.
3. You must guarantee that no donkeys were injured while doing this.
4. And finally you must promise never to do it again.

[Task Force]

I wonder, what kind of punishment they would dish out for these super "offensive actions" like calling someone a donkey.

Can I ask the School system to also ban the words geometry, algebra, java, and all related terms, as they cause me distress.

[Takeda Shingen]

Maybe because some kids can't dance for one reason or another. Wouldn't want to hurt a kid's feelings and thereby disrupt their learning experience. :06:


In a way I'm glad I don't have kids, because they would be learning things more or less the way I was taught. That might make them too rough around the edges for some schools.

It would make them too rough around the edges for some parents. The schools are only responding to the deluge of ridiculous complaints from parents and community members at large. Eventually, you get tired of fighting the same battle every day and just ban everything. Can't say I blame them.

I wonder, what kind of punishment they would dish out for these super "offensive actions" like calling someone a donkey.

None. Parents want the rules enforced, but only for everybody else's kid.

[the_tyrant]

Can I ask the School system to also ban the words geometry, algebra, java, and all related terms, as they cause me distress.

Don't forget french, calculus, and physics

french, calculus, and physics imply failure, and by being surrounded by failure, we are under constant distress

[U570]

Why don't we ban the word Monday? It causes everyone distress...

[krashkart]

Why don't we ban the word Monday? It causes everyone distress...

Great idea. While we're at it we should also ban the word "Saturday" and "Sunday" because those words may cause distress in people who have to work on those days -- along with the words "Steak", "barbeque", "beer", "baseball" and "football". :yep: