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POSTED BY: Wulfenstar
UPDATED: Monday, June 30, 2008 15:11
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I am offended that you used my initials to make your point. I think you owe the children an apology. You should give money to build a library to the african latino homless illegal children's hospital. We all should build bridges for a better world.
"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".
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Great example of political correctness going too far:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7479758.stm
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Originally posted by Khyron:
Great example of political correctness going too far:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7479758.stm
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Darn. You beat me to it. How...enlightened of you to save me from making some non-PC remark.
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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Quote:That's not "taking it too far" that's standard school procedure. For example, in my daughter's elem school, the rule was that if you handed out Valentines you handed them out to everybody... and the teachers made a class list so the parents would know how many and what names.
The school, in Lund, southern Sweden, argues that if invitations are handed out on school premises then it must ensure there is no discrimination.
In that school, the principal believed in reward and inclusion, not punishment and exclusion. There were very few discipline problems and almost no bullying despite having a huge percent of special ed students. What seems silly to you is actually a successful school discipline strategy. Here's an example of a unsuccessful strategy:
Kindergartner Voted Out By Students
Morningside Elementary teacher Wendy Portillo had her son's classmates say what they didn't like about 5-year-old Alex. She says the teacher then had the students vote, and voted Alex, who is being evaluated for Asperger's syndrome -- an autism spectrum disorder -- out of the class by a 14-2 margin.
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/27/earlyshow/main4130288.shtml
That does not help a child with Asperger's learn to deal with others. Children with A understand that other's don't like them. They desperately TRY to fit in, but they don't know how. Truly disruptive students should be moved to a special needs class, but what this child needs more than anything is a speech-language pathologist.
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Let's party like it's 1929.
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Sorry, SignyM, but back when I was a kid (not so long ago, but a completely different and far less crazy world, it seems), I got to invite all the kids I wanted to invite and wasn't forced to invite everyone because somebody "might feel discriminated against". Had that happened, I probably would've refused to have any parties at all. After all, it was my birthday party, which I wanted to spend with my friends, not a class get-together, right?
The thought of living in a free society and being told who to invite to one's parties seems very contradictory to me.
The example you cite is obviously a depressing example of something that should never have happened (not because it's politically incorrect, but because it's just plain wrong), but it's got nothing to do with the article I linked.
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