« Obama's Terrorist Mentor Is Blogging at HuffPo | Main | Muslims Fail to Revere the Moonbat Messiah »
January 5, 2009
British School Bans the Word "School"
Posted by Dave Blount at January 5, 2009 9:04 AM
If politically correct British educrats keep banning words at the current rate, students and teachers will soon be reduced to communicating with hand signs and grunts. The latest to be struck from the Newspeak dictionary is "school."
Linda Kingdon, head teacher at Watercliffe Meadow Primary, explains why her school is not a school but a "place for learning":
One reason was many of the parents of the children here had very negative connotations of school. Instead, we want this to a be a place for family learning, where anyone can come. We were able to start from scratch and create a new type of learning experience. There are no whistles or bells or locked doors. We wanted to deinstitutionalize the place and bring the school closer to real life.
As an educrat, Dingdong has never actually experienced real life, but she may have learned about it at a seminar.
Her "place of learning" isn't alone. Barnsley, South Yorkshire is replacing its secondary schools with "advanced learning centers."
If the practice of suppressing words in favor of stilted descriptive phrases continues, they may soon have to replace "educrat" with "useless politically correct education-corroding ignoramus."
On a tip from Burning Hot.
