NY Dept. of Education to ban Dinosaurs, Poverty, Sex from standardized tests

Started by Syt, March 28, 2012, 01:48:01 PM

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KRonn

#15
March 28, 2012, 08:35:37 PM
What a sick joke this article is, to be banning all those things. It's actually scary that we've come to things like this. What ever happened to us to actually ban this stuff, and for many of the reasons given? Are we really that afraid of our own shadows, or actually treating our kids like their so fragile of reality? 

Ideologue

#16
March 28, 2012, 09:44:42 PM
Dinosaurs?  Nuclear weapons?  Pornography?

No, you know what, fuck it.  I want the next generation of Americans to be even dumber than mine.  Then we too can reign in Hell, just like a Boomer.
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Grinning_Colossus

#17
March 29, 2012, 12:05:06 AM
 :huh: People who don't believe in evolution shouldn't be going to college at all.
Quis futuit ipsos fututores?

Crazy_Ivan80

#18
March 29, 2012, 02:32:36 AM
QuoteA dinosaur runs away from a house with a swimming pool at 15mph in order to escape a tsunami. Meanwhile, a Parapsychologist leaves from his mansion with a personal computer at 20mph heading towards the tsunami because of a fortune teller's ominous prediction. If a nuclear heat-seeking missile, flying at 25mph, is deployed from the location of the tsunami at the same time as the dinosaur and flies back and forth between the dinosaur and the Parapsychologist until they collide, how far will the nuclear heat-seeking missile have traveled?

one of the reactions on that idiocy. :D

DGuller

#19
March 29, 2012, 07:28:02 AM
Nuclear heat seeking missile?  Is that like an RPG round with a proximity fuse?

Malthus

#20
March 29, 2012, 08:56:51 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on March 28, 2012, 09:44:42 PM
Dinosaurs?  Nuclear weapons?  Pornography?

No, you know what, fuck it.  I want the next generation of Americans to be even dumber than mine.  Then we too can reign in Hell, just like a Boomer.

I think it's a good idea to prevent kids from reading nuclear dino porn. What do ya want, a whole generation of Timmays?  :P
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#21
March 29, 2012, 09:27:15 AM
Quote from: DGuller on March 29, 2012, 07:28:02 AM
Nuclear heat seeking missile?  Is that like an RPG round with a proximity fuse?

No you didnt...... :mad: :lol:
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derspiess

#22
March 29, 2012, 10:00:30 AM
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on March 29, 2012, 12:05:06 AM
:huh: People who don't believe in evolution shouldn't be going to college at all.

Yeah.  Don't want to give them a chance to change their minds, right?
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MadImmortalMan

#23
March 29, 2012, 11:11:39 AM
Quote from: derspiess on March 29, 2012, 10:00:30 AM
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on March 29, 2012, 12:05:06 AM
:huh: People who don't believe in evolution shouldn't be going to college at all.

Yeah.  Don't want to give them a chance to change their minds, right?

Don't be a snob.
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Kleves

#24
March 29, 2012, 11:13:59 AM
Quote from: derspiess on March 29, 2012, 10:00:30 AM
Yeah.  Don't want to give them a chance to change their minds, right?
Do very many people go through college-level science classes and come out beliving in magic?
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Grinning_Colossus

#25
March 29, 2012, 11:25:48 AM
It seems unlikely to me that someone so willfully ignorant as to deny evolution would benefit from a college education.
Quis futuit ipsos fututores?

grumbler

#26
March 29, 2012, 11:31:10 AM
The invincible ignorance of the Languishites in this thread amuses me enormously (especially when you consider that Timmay is siding with them and they don't seem to mind).

No one has a clue as to why this is important in standardized-test-taking, but that doesn't stop many people from pronouncing on how 'stupid" it is.

Frankly, this is as non-story as a non-story can be.  That test designers should want to avoid using possibly-distracting language in their questions is neither news nor silly/absurd/incompetent/etc.  That school districts want to advise test designers on any words that they think could possibly prove distracting to their kids is perfectly normal, and should be applauded (and is by those not ignorant on the topic).

Don't that stop you all from frothing and getting your panties in a twist, though.  It is enormously fun to watch.  And no one has lost much cred by ranting about shit they don't understand; they lost all that they had, but they didn't lose much.
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Maximus

#27
March 29, 2012, 11:35:46 AM
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on March 29, 2012, 11:25:48 AM
It seems unlikely to me that someone so willfully ignorant as to deny evolution would benefit from a college education.
I think there are quite a few people who learn to think for themselves in college who hadn't leaned to do so previously. That is, of course, less than ideal but preferable to them not learning it at all.

MadImmortalMan

#28
March 29, 2012, 11:36:36 AM
They should be attempting to deliberately distract them as a test of their concentration. There should be pictures of boobies on every page too.
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PDH

#29
March 29, 2012, 11:39:15 AM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on March 29, 2012, 11:36:36 AM
They should be attempting to deliberately distract them as a test of their concentration. There should be pictures of boobies on every page too.

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