For example, "dinosaurs" may upset the children of Young Earth Creationists.... Even though YCEs apparently point to dinosaurs as evidence of creationism. Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate birthdays, so that's out, and we all know that "Halloween" is only for evil pagans, so we don't wanna expose dem chilluns to that.

Here's the complete list.

I mean, some of them make sense; you don't want your 10-year-old to be examined on sexual intercourse, and I'm pretty sure that it's just common sense not to confuse detailed-football-play-by-play comprehension with general reading comprehension. But surely those are already covered by existing rules, if they even needed saying in the first place?

But anyway, this is ridiculous.

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I don't see why we don't want 10 year olds to learn about sex.

But anyway, this is ridiculous.

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I don't see why we don't want 10 year olds to learn about sex.

But anyway, this is ridiculous.

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Well, I can see where it might not be out-of-place in a health class, although personally I think a stronger focus on puberty in general would be better at that age.

I also got the impression from the article on Der Spiegel that this is more specifically aimed at English and maths tests, but I couldn't find any English-language source for that. Anyway, if that's the case the sex thing would make even more sense (there are probably better stories for a ten-year-old's close-reading exam than sexy ones).

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Quote: from the raven at 2:20 pm on Mar. 30, 2012

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I don't see why we don't want 10 year olds to learn about sex.  

 But anyway, this is ridiculous.

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They'll still think it was the storks doing when they're in their twenties.

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Quote: from the raven at 2:20 pm on Mar. 30, 2012

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I don't see why we don't want 10 year olds to learn about sex.  

 But anyway, this is ridiculous.

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They'll still think it was the storks doing when they're in their twenties.

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I'd make some comment like "isn't that what the American neo-cons want?", but the "banning mention of birthdays because it might upset Jeho's" thing sounds more left-wing.

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Quote: from the raven at 2:20 pm on Mar. 30, 2012

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I don't see why we don't want 10 year olds to learn about sex.  

 But anyway, this is ridiculous.

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Well, I can see where it might not be out-of-place in a health class, although personally I think a stronger focus on puberty in general would be better at that age.

I also got the impression from the article on Der Spiegel that this is more specifically aimed at English and maths tests, but I couldn't find any English-language source for that. Anyway, if that's the case the sex thing would make even more sense (there are probably better stories for a ten-year-old's close-reading exam than sexy ones).

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Quote: from the raven at 2:20 pm on Mar. 30, 2012

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I don't see why we don't want 10 year olds to learn about sex.  

 But anyway, this is ridiculous.

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Well, I can see where it might not be out-of-place in a health class, although personally I think a stronger focus on puberty in general would be better at that age.

I also got the impression from the article on Der Spiegel that this is more specifically aimed at English and maths tests, but I couldn't find any English-language source for that. Anyway, if that's the case the sex thing would make even more sense (there are probably better stories for a ten-year-old's close-reading exam than sexy ones).

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I feel bad for America at this point. It's like watching a beached whale.

Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico.  The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere.  The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that!"

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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