while closing down schools for those very holidays? Im glad I moved to Florida! You people up there have gone nutz! Patrick funny i dont see the word Islam in here Patrick i guess birthday bad Islam good huh , fing stupid crap PhD_NM What would a world be like without all these things? Unrecognizable! Banning words does not eliminate problems (social, mental, racial, etc., etc.), it just creates other problems. Instead of feeling righteous indignation, those who are supporting this ban are shining examples of the righteously ignorant. Have any of them read a book? They probably don't believe in that either! Jocelyn Wills Thank you, Laurie Lou. I could not have said it better myself. Jocelyn Wills No, we wouldn't want to make students uncomfortable, wouldn't actually want them to THINK. Welcome to Bloombergville. This kind of thinking is what a billion dollars can buy you...banned words, banned books, banned thinking, so that the global elite can continue to rob our children blind. Shame on the NY City Department of Education, and the corrupt friends of Bloomberg who run it. Jake Svendsen And these people need to realize that all these subjects are real life issues. Students should be taught these things. Sheltering them will make them awkward and unfit to enter the world as we know it. They should teach more of these things in classrooms instead of chemistry and Algebra. Brian I don't care what words children use and encounter (and they should use and encounter