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by gregory
on Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:14 pm |
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gilster wrote: Hi Gregory - if you want to see some really wacked-out ban-types
Check this out - one of my favorite sites on the net
I use it alot to wake up people who think it will all end with the 'icky' cigarettes
It Won't
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http://burningissues.org/[/url] " Corrected Link"
Ban the Banners
Thanks Gilster but the link went to a different location that you inteded |
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by gilster
on Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:54 pm |
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by gregory
on Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:14 pm |
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 That is absolutely crazy isn't it? I was using the wood and charcoal smoke analogy to make a point of how ludicrous it all is.
I hope these crazies are also going after power plants and automobiles if they really buy thier own line of crap. |
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by Torquemeda
on Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:19 pm |
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by Torquemeda
on Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:34 pm |
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There's also a ban on teaching the "Holocaust:"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=445979&in_page_id=1770&ICO=NEWS&ICL=TOPART
Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims
By LAURA CLARK - More by this author »
Last updated at 11:58am on 2nd April 2007
Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims
Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed.
It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.
There is also resistance to tackling the 11th century Crusades - where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem - because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques.
The findings have prompted claims that some schools are using history 'as a vehicle for promoting political correctness'.
The study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, looked into 'emotive and controversial' history teaching in primary and secondary schools.
It found some teachers are dropping courses covering the Holocaust at the earliest opportunity over fears Muslim pupils might express anti-Semitic and anti-Israel reactions in class.
The researchers gave the example of a secondary school in an unnamed northern city, which dropped the Holocaust as a subject for GCSE coursework.
The report said teachers feared confronting 'anti-Semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial among some Muslim pupils'.
It added: "In another department, the Holocaust was taught despite anti-Semitic sentiment among some pupils.
"But the same department deliberately avoided teaching the Crusades at Key Stage 3 (11- to 14-year-olds) because their balanced treatment of the topic would have challenged what was taught in some local mosques."
A third school found itself 'strongly challenged by some Christian parents for their treatment of the Arab-Israeli conflict-and the history of the state of Israel that did not accord with the teachings of their denomination'.
The report concluded: "In particular settings, teachers of history are unwilling to challenge highly contentious or charged versions of history in which pupils are steeped at home, in their community or in a place of worship."
But Chris McGovern, history education adviser to the former Tory government, said: "History is not a vehicle for promoting political correctness. Children must have access to knowledge of these controversial subjects, whether palatable or unpalatable."
The researchers also warned that a lack of subject knowledge among teachers - particularly at primary level - was leading to history being taught in a 'shallow way leading to routine and superficial learning'.
Lessons in difficult topics were too often 'bland, simplistic and unproblematic' and bored pupils. |
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by gregory
on Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:10 am |
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by gregory
on Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:50 pm |
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by gregory
on Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:21 pm |
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Race affects passive smoke absorption in children
Do you think the anti's are going to be dividing and conquering for the aforementioned ban's in a persons own home with the pre-text of saving the children?
Child Health News
Published: Tuesday, 13-Mar-2007
New research suggests that a child's race may be a factor in determining his/her susceptibility to tobacco toxins associated with environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).
The study, published in the March issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), reveals that African American children with asthma, who are exposed to ETS, have significantly higher toxin levels when compared to their Caucasian counterparts.
"African American children suffer from higher rates of tobacco-related disorders, such as asthma, sudden-infant death syndrome, and low birth weight, and we need to know why," said lead author Stephen Wilson MD, University of Cincinnati. "So our goal is to understand how certain populations-particularly those groups who are most susceptible-respond to ETS exposure."
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by BWilliams
on Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:45 pm |
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Gregory;
Thanks for posting all these links, but please remember to put the code tag "URL" around them to make them active links. I keep editing your posts to make them links, because it looks like you are just coloring them blue, not actually making them links.
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by gregory
on Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:05 pm |
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| Thanks Bill, Will do. I had not realized that. |
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