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2013/08/05 09:15:40
Subject: More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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Renegade Inquisitor with a Bound Daemon
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I don't know about you guys, but when I was in school, they started teaching about the basics concepts of evolution back when I was in elementary, and that carried through to jr. high, and had I elected to take biology instead of physics, probably through highschool as well. It's a pretty important part of 1/3rd of what the entire science curriculum is based on, so I figure it would pop up on quite a few tests.
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2013/08/05 11:00:27
Subject: More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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Avatar of the Bloody-Handed God
Inside your mind, corrupting the pathways
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Reading this thread I had to wonder why dinos were racist and why people were talking about paper bags. Thank you to the person/people who explained the "brown bag test" - never heard of that before and makes the first couple of pages of the thread a lot easier to follow 
I personally think all exam questions should feature dinos and evolution.
"If Shakespeare was a T-rex, what would is descendants evolve into given that time is relative and you were being forced to read one of his plays... explain your working"
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2013/08/05 11:17:32
Subject: More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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Renegade Inquisitor with a Bound Daemon
Tied and gagged in the back of your car
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I'd enjoy Shakespeare a lot more if it involved dinosaurs.
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2013/08/05 11:34:26
Subject: More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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 timetowaste85 wrote:It was pretty simple to understand, actually: "these words are being excluded from tests because they can potentially upset some students due to..." And they list the examples. Believe me, I got the scope of it. What I didn't get is how they figured DINOSAURS to have the potential to offend children. Children love dinosaurs. It's a prerequisite to being a child. I understand Halloween and birthdays being removed. I have friends who couldn't be involved in those in school. It's the removal of teaching an extinct animal that is proven to exist that becomes daft.
Holy Moly, don't let the younglings near the local natural history museum then! Kiss those cool field trips good bye!
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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2013/08/05 11:34:42
Subject: More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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Not as Good as a Minion
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 Fafnir wrote:I'd enjoy Shakespeare a lot more if it involved dinosaurs.
I'd enjoy Everything a lot more if it involved dinosaurs. I have a related question, what is this deal with birthdays that everyone keeps bringing up? "Birthdays are banned" and stuff like that?
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I wish I had time for all the game systems I own, let alone want to own... |
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2013/08/05 11:52:19
Subject: More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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Wait, "birthdays" can bring up bad memories or make someone feel bad? Nature needs to bring out the cheetahs STAT! to thin the herd a little. The gene pool shouldn't be inflatable.
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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2013/08/05 11:53:57
Subject: More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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Avatar of the Bloody-Handed God
Inside your mind, corrupting the pathways
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 Frazzled wrote:
Wait, "birthdays" can bring up bad memories or make someone feel bad? Nature needs to bring out the cheetahs STAT! to thin the herd a little. The gene pool shouldn't be inflatable.
I think Cheetah SAT's would be better
"Those of you who survive shall progress to Third Grade! For those about to die, we salute you!".
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2013/08/05 12:20:58
Subject: More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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 SilverMK2 wrote: Frazzled wrote:
Wait, "birthdays" can bring up bad memories or make someone feel bad? Nature needs to bring out the cheetahs STAT! to thin the herd a little. The gene pool shouldn't be inflatable.
I think Cheetah SAT's would be better
"Those of you who survive shall progress to Third Grade! For those about to die, we salute you!".
"Back in my day we didn't have no wussy cheetahs. We had to fight off Sabre Tooths, with just sticks and twigs!"
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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2013/08/05 12:47:24
Subject: More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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Avatar of the Bloody-Handed God
Inside your mind, corrupting the pathways
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Hey, it isn't our fault you guys killed off all the sabre tooth tigers with your bad breath, let alone sticks and twigs 
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2013/08/05 13:02:53
Subject: More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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SilverMK2 wrote:Hey, it isn't our fault you guys killed off all the sabre tooth tigers with your bad breath, let alone sticks and twigs
Ihiro Honda, after watching a home movie where Frazzled walks by.
"Wow I suddenly have this idea of a giant monster with atomic breath."
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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2013/08/05 23:00:16
Subject: More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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Fixture of Dakka
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Frazzled wrote: SilverMK2 wrote: Frazzled wrote:
Wait, "birthdays" can bring up bad memories or make someone feel bad? Nature needs to bring out the cheetahs STAT! to thin the herd a little. The gene pool shouldn't be inflatable.
I think Cheetah SAT's would be better
"Those of you who survive shall progress to Third Grade! For those about to die, we salute you!".
"Back in my day we didn't have no wussy cheetahs. We had to fight off Sabre Tooths, with just sticks and twigs!"
Sticks and twigs?!! Luxury! Why, I remember having nothing more than dandilion fluff to blow in their face!
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2013/08/06 04:16:12
Subject: Re:More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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 Cheesecat wrote:But wouldn't dinosaurs be relevant to standardized tests in science courses? I don't think math and English are the only courses that have standardized tests.
New York appears to have English Language and Mathematics standardised tests, and science testing for only grades 4 and 8... which from my experience is before evolution is taught as a concept.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. |
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2013/08/06 04:28:58
Subject: Re:More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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Fixture of Dakka
Kamloops, BC
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 sebster wrote: Cheesecat wrote:But wouldn't dinosaurs be relevant to standardized tests in science courses? I don't think math and English are the only courses that have standardized tests.
New York appears to have English Language and Mathematics standardised tests, and science testing for only grades 4 and 8... which from my experience is before evolution is taught as a concept.
Oh, OK thanks for that also your quote looks a little messy. 
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2013/08/06 06:12:57
Subject: Re:More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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Not a problem 
And the quote in my last post is fixed, thanks for pointing that out.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. |
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2013/08/06 07:44:12
Subject: More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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Ferocious Black Templar Castellan
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SilverMK2 wrote:" IfShakespeare was a T-rex, what would is descendants evolve into given that time is relative and you were being forced to read one of his plays... explain your working"
His [Shakespeare's] descendants wouldn't evolve into anything, since Shakespeare apparently exists outside the laws of English grammar. 
The rest is silence.
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2013/08/06 10:08:11
Subject: Re:More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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Imperial Admiral
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sebster wrote: Cheesecat wrote:But wouldn't dinosaurs be relevant to standardized tests in science courses? I don't think math and English are the only courses that have standardized tests.
New York appears to have English Language and Mathematics standardised tests, and science testing for only grades 4 and 8... which from my experience is before evolution is taught as a concept.
When were you a student of New York public schools?
We'd definitely covered evolution by eighth grade down here in the Commonwealth, but then again I was in AP classes.
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2013/08/06 11:51:15
Subject: More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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Renegade Inquisitor with a Bound Daemon
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Started getting a basic introduction to evolution midway through elementary school here. I'd imagine around grade 4.
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2013/08/07 02:27:47
Subject: Re:More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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 Seaward wrote:When were you a student of New York public schools?
We'd definitely covered evolution by eighth grade down here in the Commonwealth, but then again I was in AP classes.
Fair enough. Over here we covered all the foundational stuff like cell structure and all that, and once we had that grounding then moved on to evolution.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. |
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2013/08/07 02:45:31
Subject: More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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Fixture of Dakka
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 AlmightyWalrus wrote: SilverMK2 wrote:" IfShakespeare was a T-rex, what would is descendants evolve into given that time is relative and you were being forced to read one of his plays... explain your working"
His [Shakespeare's] descendants wouldn't evolve into anything, since Shakespeare apparently exists outside the laws of English grammar.
The rest is silence.
A fine cue for the Shakespear song.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=65Cy4-rfd24
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2013/08/07 05:32:39
Subject: Re:More words for the memory hole in Seattle and New York
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Fully-charged Electropriest
Portland, OR by way of WI
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we have been here since before I was born in 1980, just face it, they are watching
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