The F word...

[Devastatin Dave]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

Freedom of speach or another assault on the youth veiled as freedom of speach?

[Proletariat]

Pretty stupid policy. That's my favorite word to hear, ever, don't get me wrong. Still, children need to learn 'time and place' and school (recess aside) isn't one of them.

You can't teach kids things like morals. You can teach them etiquette and this is just f*ing retarded.

[Devastatin Dave]

Pretty stupid policy. That's my favorite word to hear, ever, don't get me wrong. Still, children need to learn 'time and place' and school (recess aside) isn't one of them.

You can't teach kids things like morals. You can teach them etiquette and this is just f*ing retarded.

I totally f*ing agree with you...

[Reverend Joe]

I am all for freedom of speech, but I am also for some level of maturity when using offensive words, a level of maturity that I am willing to gamble will not be employed in this situation. I myself swear to a slightly excessive degree, partly from working with construction workers and partly from being half Irish, but I have made it a personal rule NEVER to swear at an educational authority member, unless it was absolutely necessary (such as if said authority member made a tasteless joke about my political alignment, to me specifically). If you allow students to swear at teachers, however, they will, in general, swear at the teachers, and to an exess.

Edit: forgot to mention, the students should be allowed to swear at each other. As long as it doesn't get out of hand.

[Steppe Merc]

I'm pretty cool about things like this, but only idiots curse at teachers. Being able to curse in class is fine by me (and we should be able to, but I'm not about to test it in most of my classes), but not at the teacher, especially the f word 5 times! That's just dumb.

[Papewaio]

Detention for a week for a single swear word.
Parents get called in.

Do this a second time get suspended for a week.

Third time, don't come back. Your parents can pay for the homeschooling.

[Strike For The South]

Ha If I backtalked one of my teachers id probaly get a backhand and my parents would support the teacher

[yesdachi]

A teacher should have control of their class and the respect of their students. Good teachers will and crappy teachers will get cursed at. Outside the occasional nut job student a good teacher shouldn’t have an issue and the crappy ones… well, I say f@ck um. If they get swore at enough maybe they will quit.

[Del Arroyo]

But if a teacher is given no authority to punish, it will be difficult to maintain respect. It doesn't matter how intimidating you are, if your students know they can curse five times and you can't do anything about it, and that even if they curse fifty times all they'll get is a "talking to", you're in a weak position.

DA

[ah_dut]

Detention for a week for a single swear word.
Parents get called in.

Do this a second time get suspended for a week.

Third time, don't come back. Your parents can pay for the homeschooling.

Sorry, for once I disagree with you in the extreme here...

I heard the head of the school in an interview, this is aimed at trouble kids who swear their brains out anyways...

And on your home schooling issue, please...please, these kids barely show up at school 50% of the time, how can you expect them to be homeschooled? Their parents seem either not to care or simply have no control

[lancelot]

This 'idea' should be discouraged for no other reason than the teacher should be teaching not keeping tally of who said what.

As someone said before. If a swear word slips into a conversation, perhaps reprimand if severe but otherwise let it go.

People often fail to see the distinction between swearing at someone and swearing in conversation.

[bmolsson]

It's just words. Imagine if it was another word instead....

You smurfing little smurf, go and smurf yourself.....