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Saturday, May 14, 2005
This Month is Teacher Appreciation Week...
Visited a couple education stores today. They were nice, friendly, cheerful places. The kind of places where you see some neat stuff that might really inspire the nation's youth to learn.
And yet, one gets the nagging feeling that something is amiss.
Wouldn't that be Teacher Appreciation Month?
Inside another store, one finds these charming sets, designed to increase cultural sensitivity. Like these for Hispanics and the Physically Challenged:
Very nice, but I find this a touch insensitive:
What are they trying to tell us? Everybody else has a nice, full, sensitive family package, but one person in the Black family is missing.
By the way, the other sets had the full family - it's the mom that was missing.
We're not going to overanalyze this, but, boy, oh boy, it's amazing the number of un-PC observations lurking in an improperly assembled sensitivity toy set.
posted by gbarto at 11:21 PM
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