Oh dear me. Are we now on the slippery slope of totalitarian political correctness and censorship? What else about our past history has to be denied because it might be controversial? What is controversial - that which does not fit the memes du jour? "Don't discuss" - keep them in permanent blinders? Freedom of thought, freedom of the mind are not possible without freedom of knowledge. Is our society entering a new era of tyranny over the mind of man? A new Dark Ages ruled by a few who empower themselves to dictate to the rest of us? Only knowledge will set you free. We cannot structure all of society, and set all of our standards, to the level of the emotionally dysfunctional, the cognitively inert, and the intellectually barren. You wouldn't cut off the feet of the able to make everyone equally wheelchair-bound (or would you?). Freedom - don't give it up, don't yield to the forces of darkness. Knowledge and Truth - don't hide it and censor it. In the age of political spin, have we so lost our compass that the truth is whatever we want it to be? Kids are born to want the truth. Give it to them. Discuss, explore, learn from the mistakes of the past. The only objectionable thing is to distort truth and reality, and to stand by and let it happen without protest. I hereby protest. War and Peace and Hippyism are all legitimate concepts to study, along with everything else the brilliant minds at Looney Labs have thought appropriate to include in their Fluxx product. Every concept is a valid subject for discussion, even at the simplest levels that a young child can understand and build on. You people have a priceless tool in this product for stimulating minds, far beyond its overtly entertaining uses. Doesn't any teacher in this group know about and use Socratic method? You might like to look it up - it's the coming thing to improve education. -- Kate Jones -----Original Message----- From: edu-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:edu-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kimberly Terrill Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 11:40 AM To: Looney Labs Education Discussion List Subject: Re: [Edu] objectionable to the staff/parents? My kids asked me what hippies were. I just told them "People that love nature and like to use natural things instead of manmade and love being peaceful." I give my kids informatioon on a 'need to know basis' and I figured that is all they needed to know right now. but, that is easy for me to decide with my students, being homeschoolers. So my teaching and school examples don;t always work well with larger scale schooling. --Kimberly On 12/16/06, Yves Bouyssounouse <icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I would probably leave out the hippyism from the deck when playing Fluxx with my students; simply to avoid any controversy. In general, I have found that our community, while very tolerant of alternate lifestyles, prefers the "don't discuss in our schools" attitude