Wednesday, February 12, 2003
Canadians Ban Language in the Name of Peace
A school board up in Canada recently removed the word 'Gun' from spelling test after a pacifist couple protesting their daughter being exposed to the word. Stating that 'gun' is synonymous with 'death', they questioned why their daughter should have to learn to spell this word?
Why should any child have to learn any word? Why do we need to be able to communicate with one another? How can her parents protest their daughter learning this word without knowing the definition of gun and how to spell it? How will their daughter be able to articulate her beliefs about guns without knowing the word? Banning the word is censorship, and is an abuse of the educational system. I don't know how a sane education board could make this decision. Perhaps its because Canadains are closer to the magnetic pole, and that's affecting the way they think. At least that would explain Jim Carrey.
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