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My daughter's 3rd grade teacher told her class they can't write the word 'gun' even in a story about hunting with grandpa
She came home crying saying her essay about deer camp got a zero. Has anyone else run into schools banning regular words that are only scary depending on context?
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aaron6779d ago
So let me get this straight, a kid writes about hunting with grandpa and the school acts like she turned in a how-to manual for a bank robbery? That's about the dumbest thing I've heard all week, and I work with adults. What's next, banning the word "knife" because someone might butter toast too aggressively? The word gun in a deer camp story is about as scary as the word pool in a swimming story. Schools really need to stop treating every word like it's a bomb and actually read what the kid wrote.
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