Posted on 04/12/2005 10:06:43 AM PDT by crv16
Dan Horwich's English class is a bastion of clean language, where students read the classics and have weighty discussions free of invective and profanity. But when the bell rings and they walk out his door, the hallway vibrates with talk of a different sort.
"The kids swear almost incessantly," said Horwich, who teaches at Guildford High School in Rockford, Ill. "They are so used to swearing and hearing it at home, and in the movies, and on TV, and in the music they listen to that they have become desensitized to it."
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Take this example:
A writer uses dirty words in satire in order to satirize the use of dirty words.
I'm not sure what you mean.
Slightly off-topic, but I find it highly offensive when this term (or any "hyphen-American" descriptor) is used gratuitously, and especially when it is juxtaposed with the term "white".
Those ever-so-naughty Anglo-Saxon words have been with us for millenia and we've survived quite nicely. Maybe it's just coincidence, but it's only been since p.c. has infected society that their cachet as "curses" has been diminished.
Yawn. Cussing does not make you immoral. Not cussing does not make you moral. So... did you have a point, or were you just trying to pretend to moral superiority?
I went to a public school here in broken arrow, oklahoma last semseter, and the language was just terrible. I thought that here in the "buckle of the bible belt" half the kids would be christians and there wouldn't be much swearing. Boy was I wrong, I litteraly could not go from one classs to another without hearing profanity, and the teachers would usually ignore it.
Never been to the "local" in the UK after a football (soccer) match?...put sailors on shoreleave to shame.
> Shouldn't the schools do whatever they can to reinforce good, socially acceptable communication skills?
Yes.
Good luck with that...
You can't be suggesting using fear tactics on children. Are you?
There are other ways to discourage language abuse.
For example:
A kid and a "cool" adult mentor become friends. The adult mentor does not use dirty words in regular speech. Therefore, the kid decides that using witty language to get points across is "cool".
>disrespectful moron
And yet, YOU are the one complaining about the words some people use.
How ironic.
> shouldn't you be at work designing satellites
Nope.
Laura Ingraham was discussing this today.
Will someone do me a favor? just respond to this message with a bump or whatever, want to test responses to my computer thanks
It was the politically correct Clinton administration that cracked down on swearing by drill sargeants. That made their job harder, by all accounts.
I'll admit I was terrible here. That said, this is nothing knew. The f-bomb was heard from 3rd grade on, and this is in a conservative area.
I concur - there is and should be a double standard. Sorry, girls.
well, you can stand there and say that it's sad that a school was trying to stop rampant swearing and other displays of poor culture, or you can show support for the school in trying to do the right thing. I know what I would be doing if it was the school my kids were going to.
Trust me, I hear enough teenagers in this area using foul language that one would think they had all gone through military service lol (only the guys in the military know some other words, too).
My dad learned early on that kids do say the darndest things...once he drove through a pothole which splashed mud on the clean car, and he said 'da****' and immediately my two year old half-brother repeated it. One glaring look from my stepmom cured Dad of that habit in front of the kids :)
YAY!! We agree.
all kidding aside - I have said things to these miscreants on numerous occassions. On numerous occassions it occurred on a daily basis - but fortunately we moved away from that neighborhood.
Need there be a double standard? How about we all start using clean language?
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