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"One week after New York's Department of Education drew controversy with a request to ban 50 words and references from the city's standardized tests – including “dinosaur,†“birthday†and "religion" – the department announced Tuesday that it is abandoning the plan.
"After reconsidering our message to test publishers and the reaction from parents, we will revise our guidance and eliminate the list of words to avoid on tests,†New York Chief Academic Officer Shael Polakow-Suransky said in a statement.
“We will continue to advise companies to be sensitive to student backgrounds and avoid unnecessary distractions that could invalidate test scores and give an inaccurate assessment of how students are doing," the statement continued."
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/03/new-york-pulls-plans-to-ban-words-from-standardized-tests/
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I'm so glad the liberals stood up to those puritan conservatives!
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Kjarhall posted:
I'm so glad the liberals stood up to those puritan conservatives!
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Kjarhall posted:
I'm so glad the liberals stood up to those puritan conservatives!
LOL GTFO.
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Sansfear posted:
Sometimes sanity wins out.
Sanity didn't win here, or at least if it did then only by coincidence. Those people have no idea what they are doing and simply give in to whoever cries the loudest.
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Brother_Tempus posted:
Kjarhall posted:
I'm so glad the liberals stood up to those puritan conservatives!
True story, bro. Liberals don't ask to take out the words evolution, dinosaur, divorce, Halloween, rock n' roll, and aliens. 
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In a "liberal" school system, how did things even get this far?
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Because both sides are idiots tripping over each other to outstupid the other.
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