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Israel Alters Science Textbooks For Religious State Schools, Deleting All the Icky Female Bits
September 3, 2013 By Terry Firma 33 Comments
Until this year, all state schools in Israel used the same science books. Heading into the new school year, however, that will no longer be the case, as the government has decided that religious schools deserve their own science books, which will be dumbed down for students’ spiritual protection.
In the United States, the state censorship of textbooks has focused mostly on suppressing political ideas and boosting the unintelligent notion of Intelligent Design. In Israel, it’s predominantly the human body — the female human body, in particular — that has caused a case of cooties at the highest levels, such that a chapter on reproduction will be deleted, along with references to menstruation.
Via Haaretz:
The Education Ministry has asked textbook publishers to eliminate chapters on human reproduction, pregnancy prevention and sexually transmitted diseases from science textbooks used in state religious junior high schools as well as from their teacher manuals. … Publishing sources said that, after they had agreed in principle, the ministry began requesting additional changes, such as eliminating any reference to the female body throughout the book, softening any text or image liable to offend religious sensibilities and using examples more suitable to a religious lifestyle. As a result, one publishing executive said, some publishers who originally agreed to make the revisions changed their minds after realizing their scope. …
The ministry requested the changes at the urging of officials in the state religious school system. “The ministry capitulated to one of the most extremist factions of the religious public,” one publishing executive charged. Another said the changes resembled those demanded by ultra-Orthodox schools. … Removing the chapter on reproduction means that at no point during their schooling will religious students learn about reproduction from a scientific standpoint, unless they take biology in high school.
It should be noted that the non-censored textbooks are already fairly sparse on information and context. For example, illustrations of reproductive organs like the ovaries, the fallopian tubes, and the uterus are shown by themselves, without clear visual pointers how they connect to the rest of the body.
But wait, there’s more.
Science textbooks aren’t the only ones being altered for use in state religious schools, which have long had different history and literature curricula than the secular schools. About 18 months ago, the ministry decided to alter their Hebrew language textbooks as well. For instance, all women pictured in these texts now wear head coverings, and all the girls wear skirts.
Not everyone is taking the changes lying down. Zahava Gal-On, the chairwoman of Meretz, the social-democratic political party, fulminated that
“More than 200,000 children today are in the state-religious education system, which is 200,000 future citizens of the State of Israel who will grow up with ignorance and with the sense that the human body, or to be more specific, the body of the woman, is something dirty.”
It’s a big loss for these students, considering that they’ll miss out on learning basic facts about the human body — all on account of religious ultra-modesty that has no place in the classroom.
Israel Alters Science Textbooks For Religious State Schools, Deleting All the Icky Female Bits
September 3, 2013 By Terry Firma 33 Comments
Until this year, all state schools in Israel used the same science books. Heading into the new school year, however, that will no longer be the case, as the government has decided that religious schools deserve their own science books, which will be dumbed down for students’ spiritual protection.
In the United States, the state censorship of textbooks has focused mostly on suppressing political ideas and boosting the unintelligent notion of Intelligent Design. In Israel, it’s predominantly the human body — the female human body, in particular — that has caused a case of cooties at the highest levels, such that a chapter on reproduction will be deleted, along with references to menstruation.
Via Haaretz:
The Education Ministry has asked textbook publishers to eliminate chapters on human reproduction, pregnancy prevention and sexually transmitted diseases from science textbooks used in state religious junior high schools as well as from their teacher manuals. … Publishing sources said that, after they had agreed in principle, the ministry began requesting additional changes, such as eliminating any reference to the female body throughout the book, softening any text or image liable to offend religious sensibilities and using examples more suitable to a religious lifestyle. As a result, one publishing executive said, some publishers who originally agreed to make the revisions changed their minds after realizing their scope. …
The ministry requested the changes at the urging of officials in the state religious school system. “The ministry capitulated to one of the most extremist factions of the religious public,” one publishing executive charged. Another said the changes resembled those demanded by ultra-Orthodox schools. … Removing the chapter on reproduction means that at no point during their schooling will religious students learn about reproduction from a scientific standpoint, unless they take biology in high school.
It should be noted that the non-censored textbooks are already fairly sparse on information and context. For example, illustrations of reproductive organs like the ovaries, the fallopian tubes, and the uterus are shown by themselves, without clear visual pointers how they connect to the rest of the body.
But wait, there’s more.
Science textbooks aren’t the only ones being altered for use in state religious schools, which have long had different history and literature curricula than the secular schools. About 18 months ago, the ministry decided to alter their Hebrew language textbooks as well. For instance, all women pictured in these texts now wear head coverings, and all the girls wear skirts.
Not everyone is taking the changes lying down. Zahava Gal-On, the chairwoman of Meretz, the social-democratic political party, fulminated that
“More than 200,000 children today are in the state-religious education system, which is 200,000 future citizens of the State of Israel who will grow up with ignorance and with the sense that the human body, or to be more specific, the body of the woman, is something dirty.”
It’s a big loss for these students, considering that they’ll miss out on learning basic facts about the human body — all on account of religious ultra-modesty that has no place in the classroom.
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If I opened it now would you not understand?
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
Some suggestions:
-Digital fuzz
-A swirling galaxy (or for really cosmic effect, a black hole!)
-The all-seeing eye of knowledge
-A four leaf clover (feelin' lucky?)
-A turning spiral
-And then there's always, last but not least, a fig leaf!
Yes, they don't like hearing it and find it difficult to say whereas without batting an eye a man will refer to his dick or his rod or his Johnson.
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If I opened it now would you not understand?
I never thought I'd say this to a moderator, but those are fightin words Kat. Put'em up, put up yer dukes! :lolno:
I can't believe this will continue.
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maybe they were not even born this way nor do they enjoy sex. i am amazed at the bullshit women endure as well as children trying to get an education. these folks involved in editing out the female anatomy in books should be ashamed of themselves in a big way. what a bunch of cowards with little to no respect for femininity
maybe they might should try enjoying one sometime
or seven
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I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
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no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
Brilliant. I remember that episode...can you imagine the cast on the day of filming?
just me speaking here but um......
i chadwick worshop vagina & the ground she walks on or sits on & whatever. i been saying for years, "just please make me the king of the world, all would be well"
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
This episode was hysterical....
I agree completely, health class has really changed and its quite advanced. I'm proud of my school system.
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
my first thought too, after jason p's comment
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Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
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and penises... lets not forget them.
when the creation myth has man being made from dirt and woman from adams rib then the eradicating of vaginas from textbooks shouldn't be surprising.. it seems it was just a matter of time. who made us??? God did. how did we get here? we shot out of Gods finger.
VAGINA!!!!!
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
(With guest appearances from boobs and penises.
the face of Jesus.
Fargo 2003
Winnipeg 2005
Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
those things scare me.