Why can't we expect this...
A secondary school is to allow pupils to swear at teachers - as long as they don't do so more than five times in a lesson. A running tally of how many times the f-word has been used will be kept on the board. If a class goes over the limit, they will be 'spoken' to at the end of the lesson.
I am a inner city teacher, and the lowering of standards and the acceptance of poor behavior is exactly why big city public schools fail, and it is why many of the kids who live in the inner city have no skills necessary to pull themselves out of poverty.
Schools need to stop appeasing kids and making sure their feelings are not hurt. Maybe my feeling are hurt if I am standing at the front of a classroom and I am unable to teach the few kids who want to learn because most of the class was never told what was right, what was wrong...and never given discipline that fit the crime.
I thought I would throw in this story since school starts in Wisconsin Thursday.
Monday, August 29, 2005
You can use the f-word in class (but only five times)
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F- That! The lowering of standards in schools reflects the lowering standards in society. Who really wants a society with low standards of morality? If teachers aren't allowed to stop students from cursing in class, how can they be expected to get them to learn something? Standards in morality, lead to standards in everything else... easing the standards means lowering achievement. Lowering achievement in impoverished areas means continuing poverty for another generation. In forcing students to excel, you give them the ability to better their lives.
Game, if they want you to tally on the board how many times the kids use the f-word, then do it, but I'd also assign an essay about appropriate behavior for each tally mark.
This policy is absolutely nuts.
Why set the limit at five times? If faculty are expected to tolerate that sort of language five times, why not six, seven, etc.?
Talk about a slippery slope!
Allowing students to speak so disrespectfully in the classroom legitimizes the behavior.
BIG mistake.
Keep looking for examples as I report from the front lines how our eroding standards hurt our children.
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