DIBELVEC: A Word for Our Time
To DIBELVEC
Verb
- to deprive primary grade children daily access to picture books so their school program can qualify as "scientific" according to U. S. Department of Education/Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation guidelines
- to make overly obedient and patterned to following scripts in preparation for employment as workers in the Global Economy
Related Forms
- Dibelvecee: noun
- Victim subject to Dibelvecing
- Dibelvecer: noun
- Perpetrator of the crime of Dibelvecing
- Dibelvecable: adjective
- Person with no one to protect him from crime of Dibelvecing
- Dibelvecize: transitive verb, denoting:
- "to render, make" (as in corporatize; sterilize)
- "to convert into" (as in itimize)
- "to subject to" (as in terrorize)
- "a change of state" (as in fossilize)
- "kinds of instances of behavior" (as in tyrannize)
Pre-Dibelvec indicates “prior to,” “in advance of,” “early,” “beforehand,” “before,” “in front of,” meaning that kindergarten is way too late for rigorous and rigid phonics skills (as in preschool; prewar).
Origin: The term is derived from pseudoscientific DIBELS® and from the French avec, "dibbled with."
Word first used by Susan Ohanian, June 24, 2009, with no success at getting anyone to refrain from its practice and tyrannical objectives.
Synonyms:
- appall
- browbeat
- cow
- domineer
- eviscerate
- frighten
- grind up
- horrify
- isolate
- jeopardize
- kill
- leave out
- menace
- nullify
- oppress
- paralyze
- quicksandize
- repress
- stupify
- torment
- unhinge
- vandalize
- walk heavy over
- X-out personhood
- Yuck99
- Zone-ize
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