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http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/28/new-york-city-schools-ban-loaded-words-from-tests/?hpt=hp_c3
New York (CNN) – Divorce. Dinosaurs, Birthdays. Religion. Halloween. Christmas. Television. These are a few of the 50-plus words and references the New York City Department of Education is hoping to ban from the city’s standardized tests.
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what about the megasorass and the lickalottapuss?
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LOL @ public "education"!
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Tipztoe posted:
what about the megasorass and the lickalottapuss?
Those are only allowed in The Village
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what a shame. now what are kids going to dance to when they open the door and get on the floor?
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Misleading title. Words being taken off standardized tests is alot different than banning it outright. If they have reason to think that some kids may have more familiarity with it, (let's say boys play with them more, so they are more likely to be able to read the word) I dont see what the big deal is. It might not be true, it might not be a good reason, but banning a word is a far cry from not using it on tests.
If standardized tests had a bunch of words related to yachts, you can imagine there would be different scores, regardless of intelligence, between rich kids and poor kids. Poor kids would seem less intelligent simply because they don't know what it is. The same would be true if you used alot of slang that one group would clearly understand and one group might not be exposed to. I dont understand the reason for the dinosaur thing, but its not like my kid would get expelled for pretending to be a t rex on the playground
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i can see Divorce having an edge...the little hood kids never knew their daddy nevermind having been through a divorce.
Dinosaurs? sooo are they eliminated from classes as well?
Birthdays? i just dont get, who doesn't have a birthday?
Religion? i guess i am OK with, but there is no edge there.
Halloween? silly, just silly.
Christmas? i guess if it's a question specifically about it, but used as a description that's dumb.
Television? i just dont get it, unless they shortened it to TV alone for the lazy?
pepperoni is on there too! 
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what a shame. now what are kids going to dance to when they open the door and get on the floor?
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The title is misleading but there are plenty of ridiculous things being banned in school. Birthday parties, valentines day.... Seems like anything is believable anymore. Sad.
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Well it's only for a standardized test, thankfully. Granted you'd think science tests would like to use a word like dinosaur... but I can see their motive of banning it because some kids might feel uncomfortable with certain words on that list (cancer, divorce etc for example). Making sure it is completely unbiased and un-offending is the entire purpose of having it standardized
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Is there anything more useless in this world than standardized tests?
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ikkoikki posted:
Is there anything more useless in this world than standardized tests?
The dicks of most posters on ACF.
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isht like this make me want to take a whole lot of pukes out of this god forsaken world. quit being so damn close minded realize life is tough and you cant please everyone and go live your life as well as you can and let others do the same, and quit sticking your nose in everybodys god damn business.
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ikkoikki posted:
Is there anything more useless in this world than standardized tests?
that's an easy question to answer...THE NBA! 
after reading other google links, based on their justifications they should probably remove NEW from New York. New might hurt the feelings of some kids that never get anything new.
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what a shame. now what are kids going to dance to when they open the door and get on the floor?
Had I been drinking some sort of beverage it would be all over my monitor right now 
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stupid stupid stupid
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Who cares? They're just removing some words from some tests.
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notmforce2k posted:
The title is misleading but there are plenty of ridiculous things being banned in school. Birthday parties, valentines day.... Seems like anything is believable anymore. Sad.
No apparently nothing is believable in school anymore. Next thing to go is the hope for a good education it it's not gone already.
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combat_mage_sc posted:
LOL @ public "education"!
Your uncle butt-f**king you behind the barn isn't what "education" means.
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Arc_DT posted:
combat_mage_sc posted:
LOL @ public "education"!
Your uncle butt-f**king you behind the barn isn't what "education" means.
You speaking from experience?
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