I both can and can't believe this. It sounds like something so outlandish that it could never happen, but the again, maybe it could.

Wow how utterly senseless. I think we have gone past the point of no return... This is becoming a very annoying place to live.

What the fuck?

This total-avoidance culture is exactly what allows real-life issues to happen undiscussed, because kids are being taught not to talk about such benign things that they'd be petrified to discuss something serious, like whether they have enough to eat or whether Uncle Gacy says he'll kill their parents if they don't come over for playtime.

Any thing you do, no matter how seemingly benign, any thing you say, no matter how kind, can be taken in or out of context to be offensive to someone, somewhere.

So, are they making these kids wear all white uniforms to avoid pissing anybody off?
Whoops, never mind - it can be religiously construed.

So can black.... darn...

Wait... most other colors have been claimed by gang affiliations in some place or another.

How about banning mention of any animals, since some of the kids might be upset that they're not allowed to have pets?

Water, maybe? Surely some of the students have relatives who have been injured or killed in water... or is that covered by the swimming pool thing?

My nephew's school did away with the "Father & Son" dinner because they felt it was bringing too much notice to those boys who were being raised without fathers; despite the fact that so many of those kids brought uncles instead.

Interestingly, they didn't do away with the "mother & daughter" dinner - should I complain about this "unequal" treatment?

Humph. Bout damn time. I don't like any one of those words. And what's more, I don't drive, so stop talking about cars, okay? Thanks.

And when are we going to start putting ruffles around those bare table legs again? It's downright indecent and it's been going on for far too long. Far too long, I say!

Thinking? Some people don't do it.

As long as idiot lawyers dangle the carrot of frivolous lawsuits in front of idiot parents, idiot school administrators will keep making idiotic, petty rules.
Plenty of blame to go around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erthun0Pauc

If a divorced Jehovah's Witness drove a dinosaur to a birthday party at a pool at 45 miles an hour and another dinosaur passed them on his way to a Halloween dance at 56 miles, how long would it take to know administrators are stupid?

John Dewey was a social planner in education and a founder of our modern public schools:
"Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations (1896)."
"The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society that is coming, where everyone would be interdependent (1899)."

"If a divorced Jehovah's Witness drove a dinosaur to a birthday party at a pool at 45 miles an hour and another dinosaur passed them on his way to a Halloween dance at 56 miles, how long would it take to know administrators are stupid?"

Arrrrr! I don't know, Matey! I drove out there in a Pirate!

lsomber

This is indeed about lawsuits, just as with the "Zero Tolerance" rules were, and as those rules descended into pointing a finger and saying "Bang!" being grounds for suspending (and possibly involving Police and Child Services) a six-year-old, the language police have gone well overboard. Which might be OK if they would admit WHY they are doing this sort of thing and at the same time ask State Legislatures to do something about the feared lawsuits.

Alas, asking for relief would itself be sure to "offend" someone and generate lawsuits.

Chocolate. Don't forget "chocolate." Can't use that word.

I recently made a joke about chocolate and was informed that I was making a veiled reference to the fact our president is an african-american.

Dinosaurs are controversial? Hitch must be spinning...

And then there's the other side of the coin:

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/22/10817345-at-one-florida-school-students-make-the-paddles-used-in-spankings

This is actually sowing the seeds of eventual intolerance. A strong society allows for inequality and opposing points of view without trying to censure or sweep it all under the rug. Children learn how to tolerate the discomfort of differences, remaining strong in who they are (atheist, Catholic, Pagan, whatever) without getting all bent out of shape because someone else has more, believes in evolution (or not), celebrates birthdays (or not.), etc.

John is also right - this is about lawsuits. Out of control.

I thought I'd heard it all this weekend. My wife and I are expecting our first spawn of our demon seed, and as a result, we're taking some "learn how not to kill your newborn" weekend classes.

The instructor was showing some birthing exercises to the moms and she pulled her heels into her crotch, butterflying her knees and pressed down on them with her elbows. She said,"make sure not to confuse this with criss cross applesauce."

"Criss cross what now?" I asked. "Criss cross applesauce." came the reply. "Oh, do you mean Indian Style?". She says, "Yes, but we don't use that horribly offensive term anymore."

I'll be damned if I'm eliminating "Indian Style" from my vernacular in favor of "Criss Cross Applesauce". No fucking way.

Umm... Can you be exceptional without state assistance? I think so. Check this author!

Hey, it isn't just NYC. The L.A. city council is getting in on it too:

The City Council voted 13-2 to pass the resolution with a motion urging “the management of radio and television stations in Los Angeles to do everything in their power to ensure that their on-air hosts do not use and promote racist and sexist slurs over public airwaves in the City of Los Angeles”.

This is after KFI 640 talk radio hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou had recently drawn criticism for referring to the late pop singer Whitney Houston as a "crack ho" in February in the wake of her untimely death.

What I'd like how many time a top 40 rap/hip-hop song in the past few years used the terms or referred to "crack" or "ho" or "crack ho"? Why didn't the L.A. City Council object to that?

New York is full of Primitive Baptists! Who knew?

Is Indian Style supposed to be American Indian or Indian Indian? I've assumed it was Indian Indian cause it kinda looks like lotus position, but for wusses.

The newspapers are full of dirty words....

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/472265/

I bet I could find any newspaper full of offensive words.

"What I'd like how many time a top 40 rap/hip-hop song in the past few years used the terms or referred to "crack" or "ho" or "crack ho"? Why didn't the L.A. City Council object to that?"

The best presentation of such hypocrisy is probably Charlton Heston's reading of "Cop Killa" at a Sony stockholder's meeting.

When you can make big money, it's OK, and black people are a commodity to be exploited. They make it easy, too.

All you have to do is pretend to care about "their plight".

I betcha everybody involved also insists that not talking about sex - or insisting on "abstinence education" is horribly stupid and will result in kids experimenting and doing all sorts of dumb kid stuff.

American Indian. Haven't you seen the pics of all the young braves sitting and smoking around the teepee?

"American Indian. Haven't you seen the pics of all the young braves sitting and smoking around the teepee?"

Well, there was that time Chief Noc-A-Homa set his on fire.

Jehovah's Witnesses reject Birthdays all holidays,Thanksgiving even benign Mother's day.
The Watchtower leaders want to be 'different' for the sake of being different.Jehovah's Witnesses are a dysfunctional group from the get-go .
Christmas-Jesus was not born on exactly Dec 25th,but he also did not have his *invisible* second coming in the month of October 1914,a falsehood that is the core doctrine of the Watchtower religion.
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*tell the truth don't be afraid*--Danny Haszard