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If you keep in mind that the test is not about teaching, I think it's easier to keep this in perspective.
There are entire required high school courses about alcohol, drugs, and yes even rock and roll music. (music appreciation classes will get you your fine arts credit at my kids school)
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Edit: Never mind. I thought perhaps it was an April fool.
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Well it looks like enough people complained about the ridiculousness of going so far as to ban this newest list of words, so NYC has decided to drop it,
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/03...?hpt=hp_c2
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Thank heavens. Trying to write a standardized test without using the word "pepperoni" was going to be a b*tch.
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The New York Post speculated that the "dinosaurs" could "call to mind evolution, which might upset fundamentalists."
COULD.
MIGHT.
too freakin' bad!
dinosaurs are PROVEN to have existed, not just written about in a fairy tale book called The Bible.
