School bans the word "school" WTF!!

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School bans the word "school" WTF!!

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OK this whole political correctness thing is going to far now

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... 091812.ece

This is right up there with banning the word blackboard.

WTF are these Political Correctness dipshits taking. Its a school thats why its called a school...duh!
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Wow people is d-u-m dumb...
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It's The Sun though. Seriously, it's written for people with a mental age of 8. I kid you not.

It's not exactly "banned" either. The slightly loopy head teacher has decided to redub it, that's all. I'm sure nobody will be fined, arrested or flogged for calling it a school.
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Chaos Clown wrote:It's The Sun though. Seriously, it's written for people with a mental age of 8.
Yeah, I actually learnt that in media (the media hate people studying media :lol: )

I peraonally hate the daily mail aswell, it's tabloid garbage dressed as some sort of broadsheet lookalike, I guess at least the Sun admits its complete trash ;)
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programmerinprogress wrote: I peraonally hate the daily mail aswell, it's tabloid garbage dressed as some sort of broadsheet lookalike, I guess at least the Sun admits its complete trash ;)
Isn't the Daily Fail owned by the same guy who owns The Sun? :shock2:!
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Chaos Clown wrote:
programmerinprogress wrote: I peraonally hate the daily mail aswell, it's tabloid garbage dressed as some sort of broadsheet lookalike, I guess at least the Sun admits its complete trash ;)
Isn't the Daily Fail owned by the same guy who owns The Sun? :shock2:!

Wait somebody owns the sun??? :shock:
As in the giant burning ball of light in the sky sun? That must have been expensive.
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he probably didn't have to pay for it because noone owned it before him... He just said "Ummm, I'd like to get a contract that tells people that I own the sun."
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Rupert Murdoch owns the sun and the times (and Sky TV)

I don't think he owns the mail... but it wouldn't surprise me, considering he owns EVERYTHING!

Daily fail...I like it, i'll start calling it that :)
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heh really it seems more like they just want people to use definitions other then the word the definition is for

MY place of learning == My School really its plain stupid
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To be fair, in the school I went to, they said we couldn't call ourselves students, but learners instead.

But then again... our headteacher also banned coats aswell, don't even ask :lol:
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It doesn't matter if you change the term used to describe something, it's STILL A LABEL! I never understood political correctness, except maybe some senator out there had nothing better to do (i.e., all of them) and decided to "make a change". I think "political correctness" should be called something else. It's not fair to things that are correct to change them.
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I totally agree ;)

You don't need to change what people say, people need to change their attitudes to the group they are labelling...
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Its not even a label, its a word to describe an institution for teaching and learning. Words were made so you know, you don't have to use the definition to describe them.
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That's a fair point, the politically correct term is a form of definition, but where the problem lies are the connotations and stereotypical representations of the terms that cause people to be labelled, therefore a standard definition carries little weight unless the terms are represented by the masses (referring back to the case, A School is commonly known as a school by the majority, therefore does that make it the correct term?, or is the correct term the "pollitically correct term"?)

I believe that as long as a term isn't offensive in substantial way, and it is adopted by the majority of the particular nation's speakers, then that is the correct term, however if there is any deviation from either of those rules, then a more suitable term should be used.

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Seriously. We can't call hands hands because they remind people of work, so they can't enjoy their food that they have to eat with their hands. So lets call them 'objects for physically manipulating the environment'. Or, call them hands.
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