It took me a while to figure out "Moby NoNo Spot", and it was brilliant.
But, ya, lets santitize all the textbooks and rewrite classics of literature. That is exactly how we can fix the toilet of an education system in this country.
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She says a lot of people are having fun finding new titles for Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" which presents problems with every word except "and" and "the." Ravitch said old is ageist, man is sexist and sea can't be used in case a student lives inland and doesn't grasp the concept of a large body of water.
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Or, you just teach him basic geography so he actually know what a "sea" is. I mean, come on. "The Old Man and the Sea" is a junior high-early high school assignment. If you don't understand a simple concept by the, you shouldn't be going that far.