"firstjois"  wrote in message
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>
> "Peter F"  wrote in message
 :
> : The fear of being politically (or socially) incorrect seems to have
> reared
> : its *blandly pretty* head yet again.
> :
> : P
> :
> Reminds me of the "English as a Second Language" (ESL)
programs where they
> tried to count the number of children who needed the extra help with
> English in school and the problem of deciding who was need of ESL programs
> and who wasn't.  Rather than test each individual child they did the count
> by surname.  Imagine.  Children of Italians wh7o migrated to Mexico or
South
> America generations ago came to the USA speaking only Spanish but didn't
> count because the last names happened to be Lodi instead of Garcia.  It
> didn't improve their English but it did simplify the tally.
>
> Jois

Should I feel altruistic joy at having jogged your memory? ;-)

P
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