NYC Dept. Of Education Wants 50 ‘Forbidden’ Words Banned

[Redalgo]

Ya, the dinosaur thing confused me as well. The last creationist I spoke with thought that human beings and dinosaurs lived side by side and any compelling evidence contrary to the story provided in the Bible is a cover-up by the "scientific establishment," God testing our faith, or some form of mischief on the part of Satan as he tries to sow seeds of doubt in the minds of believers. I don't really know what most creationists tend to argue though.

[Jacobtm]

Many Americans do believe Dinosaurs are completely made up.

I would be interested to see a poll

[Хahar 🤔]

These words are already banned from big standardized tests like the ACT and SAT.

cite?  Google is giving me nothing except new standards to combat cheating links...and my Google Fu is normally pretty strong.

It's not entirely the same thing, but there is the famous oarsmen-regatta example.

[Bacon King]

These words are already banned from big standardized tests like the ACT and SAT.

cite?  Google is giving me nothing except new standards to combat cheating links...and my Google Fu is normally pretty strong.

This page was the first result for 'SAT forbidden words'

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[dead0man]

Some of those make perfect sense, there is no reason to expect every 9 year old (or hell, 15 year old) to know what a "regatta" is.  That kind of word shouldn't be on a test.  But "elderly" should be avoided when talking about the elderly?  How is "deaf and hard of hearing" better than "hearing impared"?  It don't make no sense to me.

Just to be clear, on the scale of 1-100 on the "outrage" meter, this scores about a 11.

[Bacon King]

Some of those make perfect sense, there is no reason to expect every 9 year old (or hell, 15 year old) to know what a "regatta" is.  That kind of word shouldn't be on a test.  But "elderly" should be avoided when talking about the elderly?  How is "deaf and hard of hearing" better than "hearing impared"?  It don't make no sense to me.

Just to be clear, on the scale of 1-100 on the "outrage" meter, this scores about a 11.

Just the College Board being politically correct, of course.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Deaf people tend to respond negatively to the idea of 'impairment', since they often don't perceive being deaf as a bad thing.