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February 11, 2003

Gun Control



Complaints from a first grader prompted a school board in rural Canada to remove the word 'gun' from all spelling tests and assignments in the district, reports the Ottawa Citizen.

The Upper Canada District School Board took the action after hearing for the pacifist parents of 7-year-old Chloe Sousa who came home with the offending word on a spelling assignment recently.

"The word gun is synonymous with death. I'm racking my brain trying to figure out why a seven-year-old would need to learn this word," said Chloe’s mom, Amanda Sousa.

Heard it on a TV blurb. Looked around and found this.

Why then would you want to know how to spell death, or knife, or any other scores of words. All I can say is OMFG.

This is what happens when the words "I'm offended" take on near-mythic power over any school board.

Someone already posted this, BTW.
Dumb as hell...

Darth Wong wrote:This is what happens when the words "I'm offended" take on near-mythic power over any school board.

Try getting a book accepted in the Oakland school system. Fucking someone always objects to some phrase or word as being racist. Now, this lady is gonna give em ideas.

Captain tycho wrote:Someone already posted this, BTW.
Dumb as hell...

Damn, sorry, must have missed it being posted.

How hypocritical. In Canada, where every child learns how to spell "Hockey" by the time they are 2 and where every child learns how to instinctively yell "Fiiight fiiight" before they are toilet trained.

This reminds me of the school where kids can't play "tag" because it singles children out when they are "it"

Next, we'l see a school sued because "gym class is discriminatory against fat people"

Darth Fanboy wrote:How hypocritical. In Canada, where every child learns how to spell "Hockey" by the time they are 2 and where every child learns how to instinctively yell "Fiiight fiiight" before they are toilet trained.

This reminds me of the school where kids can't play "tag" because it singles children out when they are "it"

Next, we'l see a school sued because "gym class is discriminatory against fat people"

There has been stories of kids not being able to play dodge ball because someone might get hit by the ball. In case there are people who don't know what dodge ball is, your suppost to hit people with the ball.

Darth Fanboy wrote:How hypocritical. In Canada, where every child learns how to spell "Hockey" by the time they are 2 and where every child learns how to instinctively yell "Fiiight fiiight" before they are toilet trained.

This reminds me of the school where kids can't play "tag" because it singles children out when they are "it"

Next, we'l see a school sued because "gym class is discriminatory against fat people"

Already done. I remember tag being made against the rules in some schools because it harmed the child's self-confidence

Knife wrote:There has been stories of kids not being able to play dodge ball because someone might get hit by the ball. In case there are people who don't know what dodge ball is, your suppost to hit people with the ball.

When I was in school, we used to call it "murderball". I can only imagine what these hyper-sensitive parents would think of that.

Knife wrote:
There has been stories of kids not being able to play dodge ball because someone might get hit by the ball. In case there are people who don't know what dodge ball is, your suppost to hit people with the ball.

In middle school we used to play Prison Ball during rainy days. It was great. Like 30 guys on each side of a basketball court, engaging in a giant version of dodge ball. Little guys would get destroyed, but they still played. Guys like me with puberty related clumsiness would play, and the the jocks would dominate. Everyone still loved it.

I bet its gone now.

Baaah, already posted

Like I said before, this was unthinkably stupid, but I'm afraid someone like O' Reilly is gonna spend 10 minutes lecturing us on it becoming an 'epidemic' and blowing it out of proportion. They usually go ape-shit over freak incidents like this.

People will find something to complain about for anything.

We could ban learning because it discriminates against the stupid...

At the school where I spent my 6th grade year, we didn't elect school captains because it was bad for some people's confidence.

Gah...when I was in school we used to play 'Benchball', an uber-sanitized version of dodgeball-you had to throw the ball at a goal, not a person.

Knife wrote:

Darth Fanboy wrote:How hypocritical. In Canada, where every child learns how to spell "Hockey" by the time they are 2 and where every child learns how to instinctively yell "Fiiight fiiight" before they are toilet trained.

This reminds me of the school where kids can't play "tag" because it singles children out when they are "it"

Next, we'l see a school sued because "gym class is discriminatory against fat people"

There has been stories of kids not being able to play dodge ball because someone might get hit by the ball. In case there are people who don't know what dodge ball is, your suppost to hit people with the ball.

It's been banned in my local school district for being "too violent." Not allowed in any public school. As if dodgeball were the source of today's violent children . Maybe it's the fact that they don't get enough exercise and have too much pent-up energy, eh?

I think they should learn to spell RETARD

"Zero-Tolerance" weapons policy in the US is as bad-- the High School senior that helped a friend move to a new apartment... a butter knife was left in her car... someone saw it... you guessed it: suspended from school.

In liberalist newspeak: butter knife=atomic warhead

Coyote wrote:"Zero-Tolerance" weapons policy in the US is as bad-- the High School senior that helped a friend move to a new apartment... a butter knife was left in her car... someone saw it... you guessed it: suspended from school.

In liberalist newspeak: butter knife=atomic warhead

I remember that, its the same stupid mind set, I am afraid.

I recently read a book wherein the author asserted that these zero-tolerance policies were doing a lot more harm than good. The problem, he said, is that human beings have certain inherent traits, like aggressive feelings, and emotions like anger. These feelings were formerly allowed a constructive, or at least harmless outlet via competitive games in PE class, and games like "cops and robbers" or "Cowboys and Indians" during recess.

With the adoption of zero-tolerance, however, even the smallest and most innocuous expression of these feelings, such as, in some cases, merely drawing a picture of a soldier with a rifle, or bringing a little GI Joe figure to school, with it's tiny pistol in hand, have received draconian punishments. So now these agressive feelings, instead of being expressed in some healthy, harmless way, are bottled up and suppressed. Well, that's not healthy for human beings to do. The pressure builds and builds, until finally, it bursts forth in a very unhealthy exression of violence. This may, at least partly, be why shocking examples of school violence, including school shootings, seem to be getting more common, not less.

Perinquus wrote:I recently read a book wherein the author asserted that these zero-tolerance policies were doing a lot more harm than good. The problem, he said, is that human beings have certain inherent traits, like aggressive feelings, and emotions like anger. These feelings were formerly allowed a constructive, or at least harmless outlet via competitive games in PE class, and games like "cops and robbers" or "Cowboys and Indians" during recess.

With the adoption of zero-tolerance, however, even the smallest and most innocuous expression of these feelings, such as, in some cases, merely drawing a picture of a soldier with a rifle, or bringing a little GI Joe figure to school, with it's tiny pistol in hand, have received draconian punishments. So now these agressive feelings, instead of being expressed in some healthy, harmless way, are bottled up and suppressed. Well, that's not healthy for human beings to do. The pressure builds and builds, until finally, it bursts forth in a very unhealthy exression of violence. This may, at least partly, be why shocking examples of school violence, including school shootings, seem to be getting more common, not less.

I think it's quite a stretch to blame those policies for school shootings. Bullying and overdoses of anti-depressant drugs tend to be implicated in most of those cases, and I'd consider that a much less tenuous link.

I don't think the authro meant to blame these policies for school shootings, but rather to suggest that such policies as these will make the problem worse instead of better. Zero-tolerance is a factor in this, but not the only one.

CyberianKnight wrote:I think they should learn to spell RETARD

I second that.

Grr, Politically Correct Idiots....

I hear that they are now taking the word 'War' out of most history books and referring to it as 'Conflict'.

Wonder how long it will take for complete revisionist history to take over.

Perinquus wrote:I recently read a book wherein the author asserted that these zero-tolerance policies were doing a lot more harm than good. The problem, he said, is that human beings have certain inherent traits, like aggressive feelings, and emotions like anger. These feelings were formerly allowed a constructive, or at least harmless outlet via competitive games in PE class, and games like "cops and robbers" or "Cowboys and Indians" during recess.

With the adoption of zero-tolerance, however, even the smallest and most innocuous expression of these feelings, such as, in some cases, merely drawing a picture of a soldier with a rifle, or bringing a little GI Joe figure to school, with it's tiny pistol in hand, have received draconian punishments. So now these agressive feelings, instead of being expressed in some healthy, harmless way, are bottled up and suppressed. Well, that's not healthy for human beings to do. The pressure builds and builds, until finally, it bursts forth in a very unhealthy exression of violence. This may, at least partly, be why shocking examples of school violence, including school shootings, seem to be getting more common, not less.

Wow, back 10 or 11 years ago when I was in early gradeschool, we BROUGHT toy guns to school and nobody gave a crap.

Heh, I read this thing in an NRA magazine about how a womand had a GI Joe figurine with a 2 inch M-16, and the idiots running the checkpoint in the airport wouldn't let hear go through because of a replica of a deadly weapon. Good Lord...

Darth Wong wrote: When I was in school, we used to call it "murderball". I can only imagine what these hyper-sensitive parents would think of that.

Reminds me of a game we called simply "deaht"... (main rule : try not to do anything perminent to the other players).