New York City schools want to ban 'loaded words' from tests - "Divorce. Dinosaurs, Birthdays. Religi
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Of the words given in the title.
[quote]Divorce.[/quote]
Sensible - divorce can be some nasty shit for the kids. A particularly bad divorce when a kid was in preschool might scar him.
[quote]Dinosaurs,[/quote]
Bullshit, not only have we proven completely that there were dinosaurs (even the extreme Christians/"Christians" agree here)
[quote]Birthdays.[/quote]
Beyond bullshit. Even Jehovah's Witnesses still recognize that they [b]have[/b] birthdays, even if they don't celebrate them. They're required to put down their birthday on government papers.
[quote]Religion.[/quote]
This one is actually good - if we don't talk about religion, we don't get shit over it - no fights, no war, no arguments, [b]peace[/b].
[quote]Halloween.[/quote]
Beyond bullshit.
[quote]Christmas.[/quote]
Only reason stores don't say Merry Christmas anymore is because a handful of people who celebrate one of the other December holidays are xenophobes. If someone wishes you well for their holiday, then it applies to you during that holiday, [b]regardless of whether or not you actually celebrate it.[/b] A corollary to that is someone wishes you a good Kwanzaa, and you don't even know when Kwanzaa is, then you're allowed to move that to a holiday you do know (usually Christmas but I once moved it to New Year's Day because I had a doctor's appointment that week)
[quote]Television[/quote]
...it's bullshit, but you know maybe it will get people to think of something other than television so who knows
I find this list of words to be banned offensive to humans.
[QUOTE=lavacano;35352159]Bullshit, not only have we proven completely that there were dinosaurs (even the extreme Christians/"Christians" agree here)[/QUOTE]
i apparently forgot to finish this thought
...not only have we proven etc etc, even the ones that are still skeptical think dinosaurs are fucking awesome. Which they are.
I'm offended by tests
Please remove tests New York
Have you opened a dictionary lately? Every word is a loaded word. Hell I find myself looking up definitions of words in definitions
[QUOTE=OvB;35351777]For fuck sake we have dinosaur bones. Even if you don't agree with evolution you can't argue whether or not fucking Dinosaurs existed.
triple auto-merge breaker.[/QUOTE]
god put dinosaur bones on earth as a test of faith
and, uh
...I guess christians are scared of tests of faith.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;35352632]Have you opened a dictionary lately? Every word is a loaded word. Hell I find myself looking up definitions of words in definitions[/QUOTE]
please remove the word hell from this post
[QUOTE=SurferSasquatch;35351748]Why.
[editline]March 29 2012[/editline]
Woops, I guess I didn't skim the article well enough. Sorry, and thanks, OvB for pointing it out for me.[/QUOTE]
You forgot Raptor Jesus.
raptor jesus is the best sort of jesus
"If Johnny's birthday is on Halloween, and he sits down to watch a television show about divorced dinosaurs celebrating Christmas for their religion, how long until the New York City Department of Education intervenes?"
People need to grow some goddamn balls.
"EVOLUTION? I AM HIGHLY OFFENDED BY THESE BELIEFS!!!"
I'm having a Divorce on my Birthday between Halloween and Christmas, it's going to be broadcast on Television because of the special rituals involved in the Dinosaur Religion.
Fuck em i will create my own religion with dinosaurs and television..
Whos with me?
[QUOTE]California avoids the use of the word "weed" [/QUOTE]
Lol, it would be California of all states to do this.
Also, [B]THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.[/B]
Everyone gets offended by something.
What the fuck are they trying to accomplish with this?
[QUOTE=Snake7;35352052]God obviously planted dinosaur bones to trick us and test our faith.
And I guess they better remove any questions about the solar system, because some functionalists might be offended by the earth not revolving around the sun.[/QUOTE]
As it says in the article, the fundamentalists that were targeted for that word believe in dinosaurs which makes this whole thing even more stupid.
Reading comprehension is failing today apparently.
[QUOTE=Disgruntled;35351770]Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate birthdays? That's rather strange.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, my best friend was one. I felt bad not being able to invite him to my birthday. I felt like I was being mean to him even though it was his religion and not my fault in any way.
Don't worry they'll unfreeze Sylvester Stallone because they can't handle Wesley Snipes and he'll tell the New York City Department of Education to fuck off and then go fuck Sandra Bullock.
[QUOTE=cqbcat;35353437]Lol, it would be California of all states to do this.
Also, [B]THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.[/B][/QUOTE]
But... How are we supposed to learn to remove weeds from our lawn, if we never hear the word?
In a few years, California will be filled with weeds.
(Google defines weed as: "A wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants")
[editline]30th March 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=KonerBiller;35354254]Don't worry they'll unfreeze Sylvester Stallone because they can't handle Wesley Snipes and he'll tell the New York City Department of Education to fuck off and then go fuck Sandra Bullock.[/QUOTE]
SPOILERS! I never finished that movie!
[QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;35351873]They celebrate nothing. Because of how it ties in with old Judaism (birthdays weren't celebrated in it).
[url]http://www.towerwatch.com/Witnesses/Beliefs/their_beliefs.htm[/url]
They don't salute flags or take any oaths of allegiance, they're not supposed to associate themselves with non-Witnesses, they don't believe in the Trinity, they don't believe in Hell (if you're a non-Witness and you die, you just cease to exist; you'll come back when the Resurrection of the Dead happens though), they believe Jesus was crucified to a stake (not a cross) and that only 144,000 people get into Heaven to be with God and Christ (the 144,000 complement was met in 1935, just so you know; so everyone now just spends eternity on earth as a ghost member of the "Great Crowd"), and they don't celebrate any holidays because most of them have Pagan roots of some sort.[/QUOTE]
That
That actually sounds like Christianity done right. Holy god.
[editline]30th March 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Sanius;35352069]why would there be a question regarding the solar system in math and english standardized tests?
did you read the article?[/QUOTE]
Why the fuck would dinosaurs and religion be in english and math tests then?
"Multiply Velociraptor by Judaism and write the result in the column below"
Oh no don't upset or offend anyone they might die
this stupidity offends me
It feels like we're technologically moving forward but going backwards in other ways with all these types of things.
Besides, hasn't evolution been proven already?
[QUOTE=OvB;35351777]For fuck sake we have dinosaur bones. Even if you don't agree with evolution you can't argue whether or not fucking Dinosaurs existed.
triple auto-merge breaker.[/QUOTE]
[quote]But what the tabloid failed to realize is that those "fundamentalists" who oppose evolution on religious grounds, believe wholeheartedly in dinosaurs.
Young Earth creationists, or Biblical creationists as they prefer to be called, often point to dinosaurs in making their arguments. They say dinosaurs and humans roamed Earth together, citing legends of dragons and say the fossil record shows the earth is 6,000 years old, though few paleontologists and geologists share this theory.[/quote]
Read the article
[quote]Young Earth creationists, or Biblical creationists as they prefer to be called, often point to dinosaurs in making their arguments. [b]They say dinosaurs and humans roamed Earth together, citing legends of dragons and say the fossil record shows the earth is 6,000 years old[/b], though few paleontologists and geologists share this theory.[/quote]
holy fuck
is mankind REALLY that fucking stupid
i mean holy fuck
[quote]citing legends of dragons[/quote]
And the dumbshit of the year award goes to.....!
In other news, what the fuck is a loaded word anyway? Seriously, I get this mental image of a word wielding a gun!
[QUOTE=Sanius;35352092]read the article before you post
what is with you people[/QUOTE]
Clearly it is you who didn't read the article, those posters you quote are discussing the issue while you just chime in "IT'S ONLY ON STANDARDIZED TESTS".
This ban is just dumb. You can't possibly predict every way you might hurt a kid's feelings. You could have a kid convert pounds to kilograms and then he gets butthurt because he's fat. How the fuck are we supposed to know? Stop turning society into a bunch of babies: offer help/care for those who need it and leave the rest alone.
Holy shit I'm so glad I'm done with all my standardized testing this year.
[editline]30th March 2012[/editline]
and get to leave this broken ass education system next year
Bahaha and i thought england was bad for this shit.
[QUOTE=Sharker;35351806]I'm getting a Fahrenheit 451 vibe here (people don't like x? Burn it)[/QUOTE]
Along with a pint of "for the sake of the people" from "Atlas Shrugged"
[QUOTE=Sanius;35352012]it has nothing to do with pleasing people[/QUOTE]I'm sure that out of seven billion people, there will be that one girl who orgasms whenever she hears the word 'dinosaur'
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