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Date Posted: 15:06:29 04/30/03 Wed
Author: SurveyGuy
Author Host/IP: pcp01422563pcs.lndsd201.pa.comcast.net / 68.81.153.209
Subject: Dumber and dumber and dumber . . . No wonder no one knows how to punctuate or put together a coherent thought! What next -- "tribal Americans?" Will that then include the Jewish people?

http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/4/30/132019
Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Educrats Ban Founding Fathers, Mount Rushmore, Hot Dogs, Yachts, Snowmen

If you wonder why children in America's failed government school monopolies aren't learning, perhaps it's because P.C.-crazed educrats are too busy acting as left-wing thought police.

Out in La-La Land, educrats are rewriting history to appease those who make a career of taking offense at reality. California's textbooks are being changed as follows, according to Fox News Channel:

� Even though all the signers of Constitution were specimens of those dreaded white males, "Founding Fathers" is a no-no, to be replaced by "The Framers."

� Pictures of naughty foods such as hot dogs, soft drinks, butter (even though that's better for you than margarine) and cake are banned.

� The euphemism "senior citizen," once politically correct, is now politically incorrect. The new P.C. term: "older person." Older than whom? Who knows?

� Mount Rushmore can't be mentioned because "it appears to offend" some American Indians. ("American Indians," of course, was long ago replaced by the silly term "native Americans," even though anyone born in the U.S. is a native American.)

� American Indians can't be depicted with long braids, in rural settings or on reservations, even though many American Indians have long braids and live in rural settings or on reservations.

� Snowmen aren't allowed. Snowpersons are. Hey, that could be part of sex ed.

� Yachts can't be mentioned. Too elitist.

� "Jungle" is banned; "rain forest" is the P.C. euphemism. (Are all references to "swamp" changed to "wetlands"?)

� "I think our textbooks should to our greatest capacity be free of any type of stereotyping," Sue Stickel, who is "deputy superintendent for curriculum and instruction" for the so-called California Department of Education, told Fox News. "We need to make sure that all ethnicities are represented. We need to make sure that both males and females are represented. We need to make sure that our materials cover the full gamut."

Others, however, know what is going on.

"It's outright censorship," said author Diane Ravitch, who has written extensively on this school issue. "It dumbs down our textbooks, makes them bland, far less interesting than anything children might see in the movies - even in G-rated movies or TV.

"The problems that have happened in education is that the textbook publishers and the test developers have become so sensitive to any controversy that whenever they receive a complaint it is very likely that they will remove the source of the complaint," explained Ravitch.

And what about the complaints of those who are offended by P.C. lunacy?

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[> If you want to scare the crap out of your local schools do what I do ... show up at the parent / teacher meetings, the PTA meetings, talk to them, ask questions, monitor the school board and don't forget to wear a shirt with a flag on it. Sniff around the textbooks, point out that programs that start in California almost always fail. Stick with your principles and stand your ground ... they respond to that. -- Surf, 18:17:51 04/30/03 Wed (pool-141-151-2-56.phil.east.verizon.net/141.151.2.56)

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[> My "favorite" examples of PC nonsense are the guide books that lure innocent European tourists into South Central LA because they describe it as "colorful and vibrant.". Like the one I used for Boston, that said that Chinatown subway station was "near the Chinatown district", but didn't tell me that I would emerge at ground level into something like downtown Kinshasa. -- Chris Henry, 11:02:40 05/01/03 Thu (cache7-1.ruh.isu.net.sa/212.138.47.17)

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[> [> That's funny. I wonder of anyone would ever take a travel guide, follow it and then write a true guide with some humor. -- SurveyGuy, 19:50:28 05/02/03 Fri (pcp01422563pcs.lndsd201.pa.comcast.net/68.81.153.209)

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[> Thankfully the "Lonely Planet" series is politically incorrect. When describing Italian cities they will tell you precisely where the Gypsy pickpockets operate, and how they use groups of their children as decoys. Meanwhile in the UK, the press refers to Gypsies as "Travellers" which is completely meaningless and misleading. -- Chris Henry, 11:07:51 05/01/03 Thu (cache2-2.ruh.isu.net.sa/212.138.47.12)

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