Reprimand Sought Against Teacher for Offensive Words

CNSNews.com ^ | September 12, 2002 | Dover Smeed

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

(best Foghorn Leghord impression)It's a joke, son, it's a joke!

[asformeandformyhouse]

LOL. I must apoligize though. I thought I hit 'Private Reply'.

[luckodeirish]

Oh my Cod! Did someone just make this up for the halibut?

[Texas_Jarhead]

ROFL!!!

[talleyman]

Would you go blind if you masticate using a condominium?

Not if you stop when you need glasses. Unless you swing both ways, in which case you need bi-focals...

[Bon mots]

It's not just the English threads...

I once had a Social Studies class where we got the teacher going by asking...
"If Russia attacked Turkey from the rear, would Greece help?"

The bimbo was truly oblivious to our snickers...

[San Jacinto]

We're trying to bring up our kids with a sense of decency and we sure don't want the public schools indoctrinating these precious youngsters to become thespians or to practice philately," said Zallow.

Somebody needs to set this doofus straight. Thespians don't philate each other. They do the cunilibungus. Querys and fagots do the philately-o.

[The_Media_never_lie]

If I were the child's parent, I would query the principal about his niggardly application of common sense.

[paul51]

LOL

[San Jacinto]

I once had a Social Studies class where we got the teacher going by asking... "If Russia attacked Turkey from the rear, would Greece help?".......

Or in science class, learning about the relative sizes of the planets...

"Okay, so Ms. Smith,... if Mars were the size of a peach, would Uranus be as big as a grapefruit?"

[okie01]

Ralph Zallow, president of the Greater Saginaw Council for Families, Children and Morality, said additional words might also be harmful to children, and is asking his group's members to examine the words 'masticate,' 'philatelist,' 'expectorate' and 'thespian.'

"We're trying to bring up our kids with a sense of decency and we sure don't want the public schools indoctrinating these precious youngsters to become thespians or to practice philately," said Zallow.

This guy, Zallow, he's a stand-up comedian. Right?

[Bon mots]

LOL!

[Riverman94610]

Or shitake mushrooms?

[Ohioan]

Between this assault upon our language and the zero tolerance policy on toy guns, or even pictures of firearms, many students are likely to learn how really looney is the educational mindset of our times.

Why would the school even investigate the presence of normal English words on a spelling test? Well, we all know the answer. After two generations of NEA domination, public education has reached the level of a controversy on the Jerry Springer show. But intellectual chaos never lasts. This too will pass. Our concern must be, what comes next?!

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[ladylib]

This isn't from the "Onion" is it?

[ladylib]

Only if you micturate using a condominium.

[panther33]

Here's my perspective as a sophomore in high school:

I have never heard the term "faggot" used in any way other than that which denotes the homosexual lifestyle. I have never heard the term "query" used in any way other than that which denotes a question (now, if you want to talk about the term "queer," that is a different story; it no longer means "strange," as I found out the hard way in fifth grade). :D

While some words may conjure up ideas or images other than the true meaning, kids need to be taught the true meaning of these words. This is the only way they will learn that words have other meanings besides their slang interpretations. Once they are taught the real meaning, kids will at least know that words such as faggot were not necessarily created for them to use while verbally abusing homosexuals.

I must admit, I have received quite a vocabulary lesson with all of these "word usage" articles. I had no clue that faggot was an actual word! Now I can walk around campus talking about bundles of sticks--just kidding.

[HighWheeler]

offending words, alerting Marcus and his domestic partner, Omar Freed, to the inclusion of the words on the test.

But, they didn't mind the word cockpit

[The_Media_never_lie]

Aren't we all making a mountain out of a faggot regarding this story?