Genderidentity

[Ian Wadham]

The original sentence:
"Place %n boy(s) and %n girl(s) in the center. Then split %n pieces of
candy equally between them.”

could maybe be changed to:
“Place some children in the center, %n from the left and %n from the right.
Then split %n pieces of candy equally between them.”

Perhaps that would solve two problems, Johnny Jazeix’s original  coding
problem with the numbers and Sandro’s problem with the gendered words.

FWIW, 75 years ago I disliked being called a child or worse still a kid. Schools
I attended were single-sex and class-distinction was rife. So was bullying.

Today’s schools have come a long way!

Cheers, Ian W.

> On 7 Jan 2022, at 6:07 am, Rik Mills <rikmills at kde.org> wrote:
> 
> On 06/01/2022 17:56, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
>> There is a time and place to teach kids about the complexity of gender
>> and I don't think an exercise about arithmetic/counting is the right
>> place.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children
> 
> +1
>