it has ALWAYS been...and THAT is a SCIENTIFIC FACT! Just ask anyone at the Smithsonian who is honest and credible. Shofar I concur about the home schooling, and about the deliberate goal to "dumb-down" our children. There is no REAL effort being made on the part of public schools and the DOE to challenge our children to be THINKERS! The "system" needs and wants FOLLOWERS not thinkers. It needs mindless over exposed, over excess-ed, and severely desensitized individuals making up the population, and they need them at an early age. Worst kind of CHILD ABUSE ever. alan Me thinks one needs just enough education to run the machines and nothing else. This has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my 68 years. Mikeybklyn Jimmy and Susie just crapped their pants. I see the logic.... Mikeybklyn Funny PT How stupid is this!!! What will be next????? Mer I don't see IDIOT on the list. If Walcott thinks these word affect our children, he obviously has not been in a classroom lately. We have BIGGER things to worry about. teach What words are left for the children to learn about in a PC city gone mad? Mr. W. should add the word EDUCATION to his word list because it has already been banned from his list of words that he understands!!! UNBELIEVABLE! miek I would like to think that some of the educators that developed this list have read Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. There is a real fear in the