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Harry! 20-02-2012 06:01 PM

Whiteboards are genuinely more effecient in modern day teaching then blackboards. Using chalk on a board can be seem by some to be outdated. But many people now use interactive boards which do not require any pens.

Kazanne 20-02-2012 06:05 PM

I think it's all blinking stupid there ARE black sheep and black boards!!!! PC idiots need to check in somewhere and what are we going to call our little BLACK dresses?maybe we will eventually ban the word black altogether,some people really need to get a life.

Niamh. 20-02-2012 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Harry! (Post 4968766)
Whiteboards are genuinely more effecient in modern day teaching then blackboards. Using chalk on a board can be seem by some to be outdated. But many people now use interactive boards which do not require any pens.

Yeah, they use those interactive boards at both my kids schools

Livia 21-02-2012 09:22 AM

I have three neices aged 9, 7 and 3. They've all sung Ba Ba Black Sheep at nursery, the youngest one still sings it. There are black kids at the nursery. In what dimension could a "black sheep" have anything to do with racism? They love fairy tales, especially the scary ones, kids love to be scared as far as I can see. They don't want to hear that the wicked witch retired to a cottage in the country and turned good, they want her screaming in those red-hot iron boots, being made to dance until she dies.

Kizzy 21-02-2012 09:44 AM

Red hot iron boots!...now im scared :( During GCSE English one of the poems we studied was called 'Half-caste' but we were told explicitly never to use the term outside class.

Shaun 21-02-2012 10:00 AM

I would think the whiteboard thing is more to do with virtually every school using whiteboards and not blackboards any more, rather than being some kind of racial epithet. That's just "PC gone mad"-gone mad.

Niamh. 21-02-2012 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Shaun (Post 4969591)
I would think the whiteboard thing is more to do with virtually every school using whiteboards and not blackboards any more, rather than being some kind of racial epithet. That's just "PC gone mad"-gone mad.

:laugh: But yeah I agree, black boards are messy and make teeth clenchingly horrible noises

Kizzy 21-02-2012 10:10 AM

But can you imagine howmany used whiteboard pens there are? My tutor used to go mad he had a box full and it took him 20 mins to find one that worked! haha

Benjamin 21-02-2012 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Nathan (Post 4968605)
ba ba..rainbowrsheep

not having that! :shocked:

I find rainbow sheep homophobic. :hmph:


The whole thing is ridiculous, especially the black board. The board is black, how is it even a reference to a persons skin color?

Niamh. 21-02-2012 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by ukturtle (Post 4969627)
I find rainbow sheep homophobic. :hmph:


The whole thing is ridiculous, especially the black board. The board is black, how is it even a reference to a persons skin color?

Cos the white chalk all over it represents the white man walking all over the black man :idc:

Benjamin 21-02-2012 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 4969628)
Cos the white chalk all over it represents the white man walking all over the black man :idc:

Is that the real answer, if so what idiot came up with that bull****?

Niamh. 21-02-2012 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by ukturtle (Post 4969631)
Is that the real answer, if so what idiot came up with that bull****?

lol no I just made that up, I think it's good though :amazed:

Benjamin 21-02-2012 10:50 AM

:bored:

lostalex 21-02-2012 02:26 PM

It's certainly true that more people are measuring their words more carefully. I don't think that is a bad thing. Why upset someone if you don't need to?

I do think some people take it too far though, when people just use common phrases and have no racist intention, but a minority group might find a twisted way to take offense. Like the recent "chink in the armor" controversy over NBA star Jeremy Lin. The idea that you can't use a common english phrase with no racist implication, but some over sensitive minority group wants to find a reason to make headlines, that is ridiculous.


But in general people of a majority population should try to be as sensitive as possible towards minority populations.

But some minority "activists" will always be screaming about oppression and victimhood, unfortunately the media subscribes to a policy of "the squeaky wheel gets the grease".

Scotty07 21-02-2012 10:25 PM

I like my coffee white with two sugars. Black wine gums and jelly babies are my least favourite, the less of those in a packet the better.:joker:

billy123 22-02-2012 04:17 AM

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edit: now tibb is at it being overly PC shame on you censoring a legitimate word!!

Ramsay 22-02-2012 04:21 AM

Backstreets back..ALRIGHT!


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