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I'm gonna pull a Josey1
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We all need to be checking with our children to ensure that what they are being taught has not been PC'd. It is not just our 2nd Amendment rights that are being eroded. Individuality is being slowly erased from the American psyche and we are becoming the new USSR as we see the former USSR reaching to achieve what America was many years ago. I go over my children's material with them and as I see inaccuracies or twisted viewpoints I explain that there is fact and there is an interpretation of those facts. We as parents must insure that what our servicemen and women fought and died for does not disappear all in the name of making someone feel good about himself.
Tuesday, June 04, 2002
NEW YORK - New York education officials are under fire for making literary passages politically correct in the English Regents exam that state high school students must take to graduate.
The discovery of the edited literary works on the test has sparked a major uproar, with authors, publishers and teachers calling it censorship and education officials characterizing it as sensitivity.
In an excerpt from Ernesto Galarza's book Barrio Boy, for example, "Gringo lady" became "American lady," "skinny Italian boy" became "thin Italian boy" and "fat Portuguese" was changed to "heavy Portuguese."
In a passage from An American Childhood - the memoirs of Annie Dillard - references to African-Americans were taken out, even though the point of the excerpt was to shed light on what she learned about racial differences.
Ethnic language was also omitted from the writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer, with all Jewish and Judaism references removed despite the fact that his work is about Judaism.
In addition to racial, ethnic and religious references, phrases related to sex, profanity and even drinking were also edited out of other literary passages after they were deemed offensive.
The altered literary excerpts have parents, publishers, writers and civil liberties groups up in arms. They held a news conference about the issue on Monday.
"The government has no business engaging in censorship and intellectually dishonest distortion of literature when it presents it to students for analysis," said Donna Lieberman of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
The state Department of Education has defended its exam, which has long been assailed by critics as having little worth. Education officials say they were complying with their own sensitivity standards that have been in place for years and shortening the excerpts to make them suitable for testing conditions.
"If a student is made to be uncomfortable on a test because of a personal reference or cultural reference, that may interfere with that student's ability to perform and demonstrate what he's able to do," said Roseanne DeFabio of the department.
A coalition wants the board to halt testing and the state legislature to hold hearings on who approved the changes. But the board says the exam will be held as scheduled later this month, and students who don't take it won't get their diplomas.
Scouts Out!
Tuesday, June 04, 2002
NEW YORK - New York education officials are under fire for making literary passages politically correct in the English Regents exam that state high school students must take to graduate.
The discovery of the edited literary works on the test has sparked a major uproar, with authors, publishers and teachers calling it censorship and education officials characterizing it as sensitivity.
In an excerpt from Ernesto Galarza's book Barrio Boy, for example, "Gringo lady" became "American lady," "skinny Italian boy" became "thin Italian boy" and "fat Portuguese" was changed to "heavy Portuguese."
In a passage from An American Childhood - the memoirs of Annie Dillard - references to African-Americans were taken out, even though the point of the excerpt was to shed light on what she learned about racial differences.
Ethnic language was also omitted from the writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer, with all Jewish and Judaism references removed despite the fact that his work is about Judaism.
In addition to racial, ethnic and religious references, phrases related to sex, profanity and even drinking were also edited out of other literary passages after they were deemed offensive.
The altered literary excerpts have parents, publishers, writers and civil liberties groups up in arms. They held a news conference about the issue on Monday.
"The government has no business engaging in censorship and intellectually dishonest distortion of literature when it presents it to students for analysis," said Donna Lieberman of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
The state Department of Education has defended its exam, which has long been assailed by critics as having little worth. Education officials say they were complying with their own sensitivity standards that have been in place for years and shortening the excerpts to make them suitable for testing conditions.
"If a student is made to be uncomfortable on a test because of a personal reference or cultural reference, that may interfere with that student's ability to perform and demonstrate what he's able to do," said Roseanne DeFabio of the department.
A coalition wants the board to halt testing and the state legislature to hold hearings on who approved the changes. But the board says the exam will be held as scheduled later this month, and students who don't take it won't get their diplomas.
Scouts Out!
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