They did what?

[kyrielle]

Okay, that's just dumb. How about the school system "sanitizing" (editing to be politically correct) literary exerpts on an English exam? To the point of destroying the original meaning? Without any indication the passage was edited?

Our school system is nuts.

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[n5iln.livejournal.com]

This is absolute idiocy. Not to mention, as someone already pointed out, a violation of copyright law. And an excellent example of extremely poor scholarship, since citing sources accurately is a "make-or-break" item on every paper I've ever turned in. Hrmph...to think, there are people wondering why the US ranks 36th in high-school student performance worldwide. (I forget where I saw that, but it wasn't long ago.) It makes me embarrassed to be a taxpayer in New York State.

Makes me wonder if someone up there in the Regents office is trying to figure out a way to replace the entire Declaration of Independence with one word: "Crimethink." (Hmm, maybe I did read too much Orwell in my formative years...but it was assigned reading, so they've no one to blame but themselves!)

A final cogitation on the matter: Politically-correct people are differently-brained.

[kyrielle]

Definitely. And, actually, I'm still wondering why we rank 36th...but that's mostly now because I'm wondering why it's so high.... </sarcasm>