[lg policy] seattletimes.com: Can you pass the test on banned words?

[Harold Schiffman]

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Can you pass the test on banned words?

No one objects to reasonable attempts to be sensitive to those marginalized by culture, class, religion, race or what have you, writes Leonard Pitts Jr. But a list of words banned from school tests in New York City suggests the sort of politically correct contortions that give sensitivity a bad name.


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2017877081_pitts01.html


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