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A Custom Objectionable Word List Ate My Homework
theodp writes "Among the first three schools using Chromebooks for Education is the Merton Community School District, which decided to go Chromebook after the Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction (WDPI) issued a news release (created using PDFMaker for Word) announcing that all Wisconsin schools can have access to Google Apps for Education by simply downloading a Google Consent Form (Microsoft Word format, oddly) from the WDPI website, completing & signing it, and submitting it to Google. And to help get the schools going, a separate Wisconsin Google Apps for Education website aims to jumpstart things with weekly webinars, the first of which — Getting started with the Google Apps for Education Control Panel — shows school officials how they can sandbox 'Naughty Students' and filter objectionable content. While Google illustrates how a list of 'custom objectionable words' can be used to flag and/or block students' e-mail with some cute examples — different spellings of 'booger' and a regex to block variants like 'b00g3r' — things get considerably nastier in the real world, as this NSFW custom objectionable word list used by the North Canton City Schools shows."
Can someone cut the extraneous crap and useless hyperlinks of this story and also re-edit so this is actually readable? I have no idea what the story is here.
If I understand the headline right, they're actually preventing e-mails from sending with certain words in them.
Why in the world would you want to teach children this is OK to do to citizens?
If there are any words I'd like added to the list as "naughty", "Content Compliance" should be at the top of the list.
I tried to type but after the f and 2 * and K it disappeared. Dam
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
...what was the actual point here? I kinda lost it sometime after clicking the tenth link.
If in doubt, do not use Google Censor.
But this is just beyond stupid I must say.
Took me a while to decode the original article because it manages to wander all over the place.
Synopsis: The Scunthorpe Problem all over again
Is this the coveted "American Freedom" I heard so much about as a youth growing up in communist Hungary?
Billy the 8 year old gets the school to put him on a terror watch list without doing anything bad (see line 32 of the bounce/deliver words) with this excerpt from his 2nd grade story.
after it rained, the shoot of grass drunk the rain while a naked weed experienced the cutting attack of a drunk landscaper.
... is "Prefanity".
Why not teach the kids to not be assholes? Bad words are only hurtful when
"Nasty word" lists have, do and will never work. It's to easy to push new memes that look totally innocent - see subject :)
Wait... so at the bottom of the NSFW custom objectionable word list, it says 'ignore' for office docs, and images?
So, a kid can send porn images around, or can attach a word/OOo doc, and say whatever they want?
Oh no! Crap!
Some kid is going to have a terrible report on birds if he can't include the tit and pecker.
I hope no student wants to write about the Bush's vice president. Or the prolific works of Phillip K. Or Tracy. Or use certain quotes from many books.
Or a description of the digestive system for biology. Or mention what species humans are. Or use the other name for rooster.
Or the reproductive system for health class.
Or any discussion of the afterlife.
Or reference a violent sexual crime.
Or have any sort of poetic license in creative writing, which is supposed to teach how to use words. This includes the bad ones.
Related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulIOrQasR18 [Jon Lajoie]
Just wait for it to fail the breast cancer test and who will take the blame then?
The objectional word list is hilarious if you imagine it being read by Porky Pig.
"No matter where you go, there you probably are." -- Buckaroo Heisenberg
You're NEVER going to get it.
They blocked 'scrotum', 'screw', and 'gonads'? This ought to make the science and engineering classes interesting.
gun shoot stab knife kill hurt fight murder attack punch hate suicide cutting drug drugs pot weed marijuana grass blunt toke stoned beer alcohol booze drunk gay lesbian porn sex molest molested molesting naked nude
Based on the site, admins are forwarded messages with those terms but they are still delivered. If I was a parent I would not let my kids play in this sandbox...
I know, it's Sunday, traffic is low, and Google has more servers than anyone. But, I'm watching "Anonymous user xxxx has opened this document" pop up, repeatedly. And, I'm just wondering if we could ever slashdot Google to death. It would be fun to try!
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
Prick was used more than once by the bard to my memory. Never in reference to the penis, although I had a girlfriend at university that probably could have proven how he actually meant penis.
And screw? Really? That's hardware. Which reminds me, I didn't see vibrator on the list.
Seeing how many people actually read TFA is more interesting than the topic. 2,157 annon viewers and counting.
This stupid article should be about the stupidity of a school using google docs at all. I guess the submitter with his google account just can't grasp it. Too bad that goes double for the editors of this rag. Fuck google and other enslavers! And fuck people aiding them.
This doesn't look like a case of censoring the Venus de Milo, or blocking email from someone named Scunthorpe, or anything like that. Nor are there obvious political or religious overtones.
Context matters--what happens to a student who actually uses a "bad" word in an innocent context--"It was a bitch and she had the purtiest coat. I said to the feller owned her, ' When she finds pups,' says I, 'I'd like one.'"--Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, "The Yearling." Or someone who quotes the F-word passage from "The Catcher in the Rye." Or someone who just barely crosses the line in, let's say, a creative writing piece that too-accurately reports the colloquial language of her peers. The actions the school takes matter. But the list itself, as a trigger for action, seems pretty sensible.
One could easily write an essay on eroticism in Walt Whitman ("I sing the body electric,") or Shakespeare playing to the groundlings ("Spake ye of country matters?"), without violating the list.
This list doesn't look like ludicrous overreaching to me. I enjoyed my giggles from reading it as much as anyone else, and am amused by its being available in an open Google Docs document. But it doesn't reflect poorly on North Canton schools.
Any high school student who uses these words in a piece of schoolwork is either committed a mistake--a mistake that could potentially cost them a job if their adult life--or they're engaged in a breaching experiment. Either way, it is perfectly appropriate for the school to take some kind of action.
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
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And why would a school block .jobs and .museum? It's as if the school district doesn't want their students to find a job or be educated outside the school.
All the words in this list focus on swearing and swearing only. The words that can actually cause harm to people, words that can be used to utter threats of violence are left out. There's no blocks on murder, stabbing, pipebomb.
The only thing I can conclude from their fine list is they don't care if the student's hurt or kill each other or express their desire to do so. They just don't want them to make love.
I guess writing a paper about any art or literature about the rape of Lucretia is just right out.
Made senseless things begin to do them wrong; For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch; Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all things catch. I led them on in this distracted fear, And left sweet Pyramus translated there: When in that moment, so it came to pass, Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.
Heck, half the comedy in the play revolves around the double meaning of the word ass.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Well done on the consent form. Love the way it just drops reference to the real agreement:
https://sites.google.com/site/wiscgapps/wisconsin-google-apps-announcements/consentformandagreementavailable
Some of the confidentiality agreement is below. Love the way they name Google as "School Official" to mitigate FERPA. I also linked Wikipedia below for CIPA, COPPA, and FERPA. These are federal, not sure what the state laws and guidelines are in Wisconsin.
Maybe I'm paranoid, and it's okay for targeted ads for tutoring services to follow little Johnny around for a few years. I do feel bad for Wisconsin K-12 IT. I'm sure they've worked hard over the years to provide systems and AAA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAAA_protocol) to help students, teachers and school officials protect information and student record data as required. Kiss that goodbye when managed AAA is replaced with self-managed peer-to-peer document security on a per-document basis. What's this "make public" checkbox? Looks cool! How many Wisconsin teachers and administrators are being trained to manage their own data governance in this environment?
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5. Confidential Information.
5.1 Obligations.
Each party will: (a) protect the other party’s Confidential Information with the same standard of care, but no less than a reasonable standard of care, it uses to protect its own Confidential Information; and (b) subject to applicable law, not disclose the Confidential Information, except to Affiliates, employees and agents who have a reasonable need to know it and who have agreed in writing to keep it confidential. Each party (and any Affiliates, employees and agents to whom it has disclosed Confidential Information) may use Confidential Information only to exercise rights and fulfill its obligations under this Agreement, while using reasonable care to protect it. Each party is responsible for any actions of its Affiliates, employees and agents in violation of this Section.
5.2 Exceptions.
Confidential Information does not include information that: (a) the recipient of the Confidential Information already knew; (b) becomes public through no fault of the recipient (in the case of Google, without Google’s reference to Customer Data); (c) was independently developed by the recipient; or (d) was rightfully given to the recipient by another party.
5.3 Required Disclosure.
Each party may disclose the other party’s Confidential Information when required by law but only after it, if legally permissible: (a) uses commercially reasonable efforts to notify the other party; and (b) gives the other party the chance to challenge the disclosure.
5.4 FERPA.
The parties acknowledge that (a) Customer Data may include personally identifiable information from education records that are subject to FERPA (“FERPA Records”); and (b) to the extent that Customer Data includes FERPA Records, Google will be considered a “School Official” (as that term is used in FERPA and its implementing regulations) and will comply with FERPA.
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FERPA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FERPA
CIPA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Internet_Protection_Act
COPPA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Protection_Act
There was a 2000% uptick in talk about barriers designed to impound water.
Any high school student who uses these words in a piece of schoolwork is either committed a mistake
Oh yeah? How about an essay that contains something like this:
Although it is less relevant in the modern world, the Bible does contain a prohibition on beastiality (sic, the list doesn't spell this word correctly), which indicates that such practices were known among ancient near-east cultures...
Yeah, it is really a stretch to think that a student would use one of the words on the list in their schoolwork. Many of the words on that list could easily be used in an academic context even at the high school level. A student might be talking about dog breeding and use the word "bitch" appropriately, or might write a report about the history of the gay rights movement which contains various slang words.
The actions the school takes matter. But the list itself, as a trigger for action, seems pretty sensible.
It is sensible if your goal is to condition students to believe that censorship is normal and that if you are going to discuss certain topics it must be under the supervision of an authority figure. What do you think reaches students at a deeper level: a class about the US government which happens to cover the bill of rights, or a censorship system that the students must submit to every day? How much respect for freedom of speech do you think these students will have, after spending years dealing with this sort of censorship?
On the one hand, we criticize the Chinese for doing these sorts of things, we criticize Cisco for providing the necessary equipment, and we encourage people to run proxies and Tor exits. On the other hand, we engage in exactly the same behavior when it comes to our schools and students, we use the same equipment, the same sort of policies, and we discourage students from circumventing the censorship apparatus. What are teachers supposed to say when they teach about current events?
Palm trees and 8
So are no students going to graduate cum laude?
Hey everyone, I am the author of the "bad word" spreadsheet being discussed. I got an email from a slashdot users letting me know about the discussion, so I wanted to share what I can from my perspective on this topic. As usual, there is always a lot more to the story than you will get from just looking at one piece of information (the spreadsheet) and hopefully I can help explain that. You certainly may not agree with what our school is doing (that is fine) but I at least want to make sure you have the full story. Note: In posting this I am not speaking officially for my school district, but am simply trying to explain the situation from my personal perspective. First, it is important to realize that the spreadsheet you see is a work in progress. Up until January 2011 our students did not have school-issued email accounts. This is still a brand new venture for us, and we have been and will continue to modify our policies. I really appreciate the feedback many of you have provided. You have lots of good points that I believe will help us as we continue to develop this. So, first question... how did we come up with this list? We wanted to give students email accounts to help increase communication and collaboration. However, this was something new for our district so we had to be careful when rolling it out. We developed the student email guidelines through meeting, surveys, and discussions with teachers, administrators, guidance counselors, students, parents, community members, and our board of education. The list of what resulted. For the launch of our email system the consensus was to have some sort of word filter, and to keep email sending with out district. Over time I hope we can open up email so students can send outside of our domain as there are obvious benefits for them to be able to communicate with people in businesses and other schools around the world. However, we felt it was best to start out more restrictive, and the work toward more openness over time. Change in a public school system is like steering a large ship with a little rudder. It takes time. There are a lot of people involved and we need to help people along with these changes. Anyway, we made the actual list of "bad words" by working off several other lists provided to us from other schools and organizations that have been doing this themselves for years. We combined their lists and edited it down to what you see. We removed loads of words that did not seem reasonable to filter (you would be amazed at what was on the original lists). We continue to revise the list (again we have only had this for about 8 months) and will certainly run through the suggestion many of the posts here have brought up. Yes, we realize that a filter list is not going to stop inappropriate words. Students can use all sorts of variations. However as a school providing email to children, the consensus of our community to to provide some level of filtering. More than that though, we have added the topic of responsible use of technology to our curriculum so we can help our children work through this topic. Again, thanks for your feedback, and feel free to ask me additional questions. Eric
The real story here is: never ever EVER farm your software tools out to "the cloud" . It's URL filtering all over again. :-)
Feel free to reply with your remote-control-of-your-car analogies
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While I think the whole thing is ignorant, it's not at all surprising. This is how high school administrators and school boards think. "If we can just block out all the bad stuff, it won't happen on campus, and it's not our problem." See no evil, hear no evil, file no lengthy reports.
Still, one thing about the list really bothers me--by blocking the word "rape," they are making it impossible for students who are rape victims to discuss their attack through email. I know from experience that it can be much easier to share things through email than in person, so it's not hard to fathom a rape victim finally deciding to come forward, and wishing to email a favorite teacher or her guidance counselor--and that email disappearing into the tubes forever. Not good.
What Tea Party Eisenstein said buying m$ anything was cheaper than LibreOffice? I can only imagine the conversation Miss Scott had with his staff:
Miss Scott: anybody ever been to school?
Scribe working feverishly in the back: yes, once.
Miss Scott: tell m$ that you haven't bought a PC in 4 years. m$ will come into your trailer an gut your living room and put in all their products so you can make an informed choice.
Scribe confussed in the back: But I've been out of work for over 3 years?!
Miss Scott: Then you make the best decision you can make.
"Mine!" -- Tea Party slogan
Related and always relevant: the famous Lenny Bruce "Nigger routine".
As someone that worked for a company that produced an IPS that devolved into a content filter system, Google has been the thorn in the side of every company competing for the K12 market. Because they have become so strong in the education document system, and everything is allowed over https (searches, youtube, etc...), monitoring traffic for content required ssl MiM attacks. Now they've really fucked themselves into restricting content themselves. It is going to be interesting to watch the gurus at Google (Googlerus?) deal with Johny looking at girls in bikinis and deciding if he is in a school that prohibits it, blocking access to specific streaming videos for schools that don't want Johny listing to "hate music", allowing streaming videos but restricting the amount of bandwidth determined by a directory services policy (Active Directory, Open Directory), and basically every annoying policy one school or another wants to implement. When schools start to insist the Google control panel is integrated in with their Active Directory schemes, then Google will realize just how bad things are going to get. btw. That word list is either an example or it will not work. It doesn't have any of the variations to allow words containing words. ie. ass has [^ass$|^ass\s|\sass\s] so it doesn't block bass or class or asset or...
Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.
I tried not to use their email system, but I had an email rejected for using the word "Assignment"
Essentially, all these words are just rude. So, by filtering them, they're trying to get students to be more politely rude. Using these words is just a matter or either being lazy or uneducated, and obviously schools are trying to educate their students. Unfortunately, this is a very poor way to handle the situation.
Perhaps instead they should have a class in rudeness, and try to build to something that would pass the filter but still be as rude as possible.
"We wanted to give students email accounts to help increase communication and collaboration."
Sir, or Madam, the LAST thing I would do to increase communication or Collaboration is to hand out an Email account. 90% of communication is non verbal. Confining communication to emails is a recipe for LESS communication and collaboration!
Email cannot convey emotion or the huge range of non verbal transmissions inherent in face to face communication.
To put it another way; you are crippling your students by doing this.
http://alistair.cockburn.us/Characterizing+people+as+non-linear%2c+first-order+components+in+software+development
"We learned when to use a screw instead of a nail in woodwork class."
"The shelf fell off because I used the wrong screw."
The blocked word list also includes perfectly acceptable non-smutty words such as "hell". Without being able to use the common term for Hades, even the most prim and proper Bible-thumping students would get devout messages blocked (not necessarily a bad thing, but stupidity should not be fought with stupidity).
But students will just code around it with a little creativity. The term fucking cunt would be blocked, but calling someone a copulating vulva would breeze past the filter (and adds a certain panache to the epithet). The religious types will even learn of the many synonyms for hell. It might even improve a typical student's vocabulary to the point that instead of calling someone a motherfucking jerk-off, they would use a term such as oedipal masturbator.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
FOSS text obfuscation program at http://www.fauxcrypt.org/
retard : can't speak of something getting slower , like a wave (the primary meaning is to slow). This is truly retarded.
screw : can't speak of making furniture, self made stuff, special type of motor , mechanical stuff. Way to go to screw people.
smut : can't do a critical report on porn.
scrotum : ha , biology is out too.
rape : ha , so now the kid can't even report on real crime.
orgasm orgasms penis : biology folk. Those have a perfect valid usage for kids. When I was 11/12 we had a report to do on mammals.
homo : can't report on homosapiens, homosexual, HOMO/LUMO (highiest Occupied Molecular Orbita) and so on.
Hell : wehat the hell , hell is to be censored ? Can't even speak of "heaven and hell" (vangelis) ? or even religion ?
gonads : ho come on ! biology ! You wanna censor brain>/b> too ?
ejaculation : this is a normal term for pity sake.
damn : can be used in a lot of normal litterature too.
This is beyond retarded. I can understand wanting to censor *some* term, although I think it is a useless job as people will always find work around it until a good AI come up : bon-er b_o_n_e_r, BO*NER, O-B-ner, "The Big B to the ONER" etc.... But much worst is the censoring of utterly innocuous word. Whoever drew that list as example shozuld have his name put on big billboard and publicly ashamed.
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visit randi.org
The law require a filter, it does not pürescribe innocuous word to be filtered. Like "Hell", "damn", "screw", "retard", various biology word , as they are clearly not obscene. The only reason to go that far *above* the requirement is misplaced puritanism.
C. Sagan : A demon haunted world:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345409469/
visit randi.org
Are you a product of the school system in question? I ask because your grammar, spelling and punctuation are atrocious, not to speak of your general composition.
This is a geek website read by people who:
1) value precision and see proper writing as an indicator of competence
2) often do not speak English as their first language and for whom we wish to keep the language clear, communicative and, generally, understandable.
If you want to help your school's position in this community (which, honestly, I don't see why you would care), please try not to write like a football player.
It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.
What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:
I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.
Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'
As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.
And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!
Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:
'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'
Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?
We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co
I was wondering why students of your school would use a school supplied email system, when they can make their own Google, AOL, Hotmail or Yahoo accounts. As many as they like. For any purpose they consider.
I guess the answer is that they can communicate 'officially' with teachers and administration officials. Using these email addresses that are verified, so the other party knows who they are. Otherwise it makes much more sense to have a different email address, because they will lose their old school address once they leave that school.
And if the email is only used for official purpose, why would they use these words anyways?
Another thing: I am from Europe (Germany) and I find it really, really strange how the US on the one hand is very much first amendment / free speech like and on the other hand censors such stuff, which is actually totally tame (all bedroom related). There is no hate speech excpept for the n-word.
This whole thing looks like the most pathetic thing in the world set up by prudes that don't have the faintest idea on how either humans or email technology works.
What is this garbage? If arguing over a list of words to censor from student postings is another priority in a school system, then it's no wonder that k-12 education in the US is crap. You don't need a stupid chromebook to teach a kid how to do math or read at any grade level. It might help in some cases, but it can just as easily hurt or get in the way. Hangman, math and flash card quizzes, cheezy programs in BASIC/LOGO, and essays copied from Wikipedia instead the World Book encyclopedia are just
groovy, but if that's the core of a teacher's lesson plan, what are we paying them for? But making teachers into message board administrators is beyond stupid.
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See my comments about the drug-related words above:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2401570&cid=37238182
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
The word list will exclude any works related to description of the human body - like what can be written in biology classes. Or if the student is writing an article about street language.
Someone has to be very stuffed in the brain with "dirty" words to come up with that list.
Some people needs to get banned from even thinking of word filters.
Fitta - Ancient scandinavian word for weat meadow. (Today it has a completely different meaning, and I suspect that most of you can figure out what the wet meadow is...)
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
This is allegedly a filter list for a school pupils, operating form their school, So the block outbound messages that match : 6 Block to other domains Any Rule Recipient matches regex (\.aero|\.asia|\.biz|\.cat|\.com|\.coop|\.edu|\.gov|\.info|\.int|\.jobs|\.me|\.mil|\.mobi|\.museum|\.name|\.net|\.pro|\.tel|\.travel|\.tv) Bounce
I take it the US high school students are not expected
Oh, I've got bored. I'm not 100% sure that's a blacklist ; it might be a whitelist, in which case they're expected to be networking COMmercially or NETworkily, but not ORGanisationally, and they're still not expected to have any international contacts outside Tuvalu.
Madness!
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
Our school had one of these on all email and web content... Then we got a "friend class" (Whatever these are called in English?!) in Britain, unfortunately located in Sussex, and as such filtered out by our own servers! Wonderful technology!
because despite reading (and v. occasionally commenting on) this site for about 10 years, I don't have an account and I'm bitter about the high UID I'd get if I got one now ;)
But I suppose I ought to address that.
Ummm... Why are "gay" and "lesbian" on the same "concern list" as words like "shoot" "stab" and "kill"?
I have hard time posting about our species, homo sapiens, on many bbses because 'homo' is an excluded word.
Why don't we just leave it up to the teachers to deal with spelling, word usage, and student behavior?
Isn't it funny how they only banned the word nigger, but didn't ban any other racial words? Staggeringly inconsistent and illogical. How could the giant consensus the author claims went over this list think that you could pick the racial word for black people and ban it, and not ban all the other words for the rest of the planet?
This leads to the logical conclusion that the entire involved community and the entire school board and all of the adminstrators are total clowns. Can you imagine what it is like to be a student under these kinds of people? God help them.