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School district bans the dictionary to comply with Ron DeSantis’s book-ban law
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Mmm. Malicious compliance.
Honestly, it’s pretty ingenious. If they can get their publishers to help push for appeal, then it’ll be worth it in the long run.
Ya, I get it... But now they're actively participating in making the students education worse.
No doubt, it's a lose/lose situation. But I find it quite sad for the innocent kids getting caught up in stupid adult stuff. And believe me... I use "adult" strictly to define age/authority position, not mental or maturity level.
This describes what happens in pretty much every conflict ever.
And at least half of the time the conflicts start over "protecting kids" 🤦♂️
Yeah kids are probably bummed they can't check out the dictionary. Maybe they can find an alternative way to look up words though.
They all have access to the Internet now. This would be much more detrimental to learning if other resources weren't in everyone's pocket.
Some of my best education in high school was learning to circumvent school network/internet censorship. I think the kids will be alright.
Yes, you are wrong. Wikipedia can both be divisive and be deceptively edited. It also has articles about subjects. A dictionary just lets a person know what a word (like 'divisive') means. Dictionaries are pretty important to education, especially for a child who likely has a smaller vocabulary than most adults.
Edit: Am I really being downvoted for touting the importance of dictionaries in education?
I would guess that people think that dictionaries play a secondary role compared to that of teachers and adults in explaining the meaning of words. Or maybe some think Wiki is without bias and flaw
But then again, this is just a guess, and I agree with your point to a degree, even if I think dictionaries are not that important in school
A secondary role, sure, but still a role. A teacher is not always around or may not know the answer, but if a dictionary is right there, the kid can look it up.
Banning encyclopedias would be more like banning Wikipedia. Banning the dictionary is more like banning dictionary.com.
You can only hope so. However from looking in from Australia, America is going to shit at an accelerating pace.
Thwy remind me of the movie Idiocracy, something i once viewed as extreme and impossible but now plays as almost fact.