They are as extinct as the dino -- oops, sorry I don't want to offend. Deborah Jeffries Why isn't cornhole on the list? I demand answers! rebecca If this isn't by The Onion, I still find it hard to believe. The schools carry out terror drills where they buss the children to an "Undisclosed Location" even the parents aren't allowed to know about. They force Ritalin on children who probably need better food and less stupid classrooms. And we are suppose to believe they don't want to upset children with everyday words. The school system is all about mass confusion. Here's a forbidden word "Homeschool". Steve Isn't this how the movie Idiocracy strarted? shakerbar2 All of the words listed are real issues in todays society and they should not be hidden from children. They are issues we all have to face in everyday life, and it is impossible to shield children from them Tony "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words... Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?... "Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we're