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A teenage girl was volunteering for a week in a 3rd grade class. At the end of the week, she wanted to give the kids plastic eggs filled with treats and jellybeans and she asked the teacher if that would be alright. The teacher then approached the school board and they said they could hand out the gifts as long as they called them “Spring Spheres” instead of Easter Eggs. So when the girl pulled out the treats, the teacher exclaimed “Oh look- Spring Spheres” and the kids looked at her and said “Oh, Easter Eggs!”
The part that gets me mad is not the removal of the word “Easter” because that is just beyond ridiculous and will not go in to it at this time.
The part that gets my blood boiling is that the plastic eggs are not a sphere shape- they are an ovoid!!!
That school board and teacher should be ashamed of themselves. The Earth is a sphere, a ball is a sphere. An egg has a slight point to one end making it an ovoid.
I guess the word “egg” is so offensive and must be purged from the public school system at the cost of educational mal-practice. These poor children- what other subjects are the teachers misleading them about all because they are PC?!
1 comments:
Ha! I literally, literally just told Jeremy about this story before getting online and seeing your post. I heard about it on NPR - the local news is covering it too, since this came from a local school.
Isn't it ridiculous?
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