Nebraska School Tells Teachers To Avoid ‘Gendered Expressions’

Nebraska School Tells Teachers To Avoid ‘Gendered Expressions.’ Evidently the Lincoln Public Schools Superintendent Steve Joel thinks the words to the Monty Python Lumberjack Song are the way things should be in Nebraska.

 

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  • This closet clown needs to find another career. I would be in his face and tell him that homo's are unexceptable around my kids.

  • Nebraska? I could see this coming from California or New York, but....Nebraska? It may be later than we think.

    • Read up on the Franklin Scandal. The "heartland" is not what you think it is.

      Nebraska has a large satanic/pagan underground that has infiltrated high places.

      • That was a political smear campaign, which went "viral" in the days before viral media, because the people at the center of it were right pricks. It's the same logic behind sending Al Capone to prison for tax evasion. They couldn't get them for their real crimes, so crimes were invented to take them down. It was unjust, but being who they are, nobody has ever felt the urge to go out on a limb to defend them -- they were some pretty ugly people.

        I've lived in Ne for over 50 years, and all's I can tell you is that satanists/pagans either don't exist there, or they keep to themselves in their ivory tower at UNL.

        • Satanist/Pagans don't exist anywhere. I have no idea why anyone would ever lump them together in any way. Satanists hardly exist at all, except in a few people's imaginations, and Pagans don't believe that Satan exists, therefore don't worship him in any way.

          • Most satanists don't believe that Satan exists. It's a symbol of rebellion and liberty.

            And, yes, there is a comfortable connect between satanists, pagans and wicca. I'm sorry if you're a pagan and you don't see it, but I have experience. Satanism is really nothing more than paganism flavored with a distinct hatred for Christianity, so they adopted the symbol of Satan and mock the Catholic mass all as a way to spit at Christians and piss them off - or to "get their goat," so to speak.

          • Do Pagans worship Satan?

            The simple answer is "no." "Satan" is considered a Jewish and/or Christian figure by most Pagans worldwide, and as such has no relationship to the practice of Paganism. Two factors complicate this answer, however. First, from a conservative Christian standpoint, anyone who is not worshipping God is participating in the worship of Satan; from this perspective, Pagans are often accused of Satan worship by default. Second, whether or not practitioners in Anton LaVey's Church of Satan should be considered "Pagans" is an oft-debated question. Although understanding the Church of Satan as simply "worship of the devil" would be completely missing the point of the tradition, the association of anything including reference to Satan with the term "Pagan" is a stretch, for some. The vast majority of Pagans do not associate their religion with anything Satanic, symbolically or otherwise.

            http://www.patheos.com/Library/Answers-to-Frequently-Asked-Religion-Questions/Do-Pagans-worship-Satan.html

    • The superintendent was Kalifornicated and took massive amounts of mind altering drugs..or he is just a liberal asshole who thinks (like most) he knows better....

  • So all the kids are now referred to as "IT"????? Another superintendent who needs to be taken out back, and hit repeatedly with a common core book upside the head.

    • Well, I'm not so sure about that in THIS context, but that is grammatically correct and not that unusual, especially when not referring to a SPECIFIC child, such as "If we observe a child and its parents..."

      German, a root-language of English, is a strongly-gendered language, and also refers to children in the neuter gender -- "Das Kind," and so it is normal to refer to a child as "es" or "it". (One of the oddities of this kind of language is that even a tomcat gets referred to as "she"!) When Freud constructed his theories, he used his own German for technical terms, and what English translated as the "id", Freud called plainly "Das Es" -- "The It." This was a deliberate allusion to the child-like nature of this part of the mind.

      But anyway, that's all grammar, and unrelated to what this nonsense seems to be, just a simple mindf**k.

      • German refers to "ein Kind" as "es" ("it"), because it is grammatically incorrect to do otherwise. German has three genders, masculine, feminine and neuter, as Anglo-Saxon did, and, rather bizarrely, the words for child ("Kind"), girl ("Maedchen") and Miss ("Fraeulein") are all neuter, in the latter two cases because they are diminutive forms and all German diminutives are grammatically neuter.

        In English, the personal pronouns and possessive adjectives are the only survivals of the Old English genders, so it doesn't make much sense to map German forms on to English.

        My own opinion is that, if people find "he or she" (or "she or he") too laborious, they should

        a) choose the pronoun that seems more appropriate (masculine, if they're referring to paratroopers, feminine, if the subject involves undergraduates),

        or

        b) go with the one which corresponds to their own sex, i.e. men using "he" and women using "she".

        Using "it" to refer to any human, except as an intentional insult, is unacceptable.

  • "It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones." Jesus.

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