This is a great example of why being Politically Correct is certainly political,
but definitely NOT correct.
Clete Schirra
edward nizalowski wrote:
> Hello,
> It has just become known that the New York State Dept. of Education
> has been routinely "editing" literature passages that are used for regents
> exams. This was done using their "sensitivity review guidelines" so that no
> student would feel "uncomfortable in a testing situation" according to
> Roseanne DeFabio, an assistant commissioner for curriculum, instruction and
> assessment. Talk about euphemisms. Talk about double think. Talk about
> inflated bureaucratic titles.
> This practice has come to light due to the suspicions aroused by
> Jeanne Heifetz, a Brooklyn mother of a high school senior who noticed
> something amiss in some of the passages she perused on an exam. She looked
> at 30 selections from 10 exams going back three years and noticed a number
> of deletions and changed references referring to race, religion, ethnicity,
> sex, nudity and profanity. Two examples given were changing "hell" to
> "heck" and eliminating Kofi Annan's references to the US owing money to the
> United Nations.
> This practice is being challenged by several groups including the
> American Civil Liberties Union, the National Association Against Censorship
> along with a variety of individuals. The article had an Associated Press
> byline and appeared in the Binghamton, NY and Ithaca, NY, papers on Monday,
> June 3rd.
> Personally, I'm appalled that New York State would do this without
> contacting the writers of these passages or informing the students and
> instructors who had every reason to believe that these selections were true
> to the author's intent. I'm curious to know how the rest of you feel about
> this issue and I wonder if other states have been doing something similar
> and just haven't been "caught".
>
> Ed Nizalowski, SMS
> Newark Valley High School
> Newark Valley, NY
> enizalowski@nvcs.stier.org
>
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