A lady (Hey! Am I allowed to use the word "lady" or should I do as the police do and refer to a "female person"?) who has been accepted into the "Teach For America" program (where graduates of top colleges spend a few weeks learning how to teach and then get sent off to inner city schools) and is embarking on her first year teaching in New York City. She notes on her blog:
"Today in our weekly PD it was mentioned that the region doesn't want us to use the term "bullet points" anymore because it has a negative connotation".
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So what do we call bullets now? "Leaden messengers"?
(Hat Tip to Mike Pechar)
Now You Can't Mention Whites!
We all know that you can't use the "N word" and that the word "race" is getting pretty suspect too but it seems that mention of whites is becoming pretty bad too. Note the following news excerpt:
"When Myers first mentioned the phrase "white flight" eight years ago, she says she was dismissed as a racist..... At two recent board meetings, Tom has presented research that shows many San Jose schools are more segregated than ever before because of white flight, resulting in lower test scores and a wider achievement gap. But the trustees have merely shushed Tom when his two minutes were over. He says they're just afraid of talking about race. When questioned by Metro, longtime board member Rich Garcia carefully avoided mention of white flight-instead he gushed about the greatness of San Jose Unified and said parents mistakenly think their kids will get a better education at private schools".
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One of my readers thinks it is incorrect to use the term "white flight" too. He says that since whites have been chased out of their original homes by high levels of violence which nobody seems willing or able to stop, we should refer to "ethnic cleansing" of whites.
