Students have always picked up some colorful language at school. What seems to have changed is that teachers no longer always correct them for it:
Parents send their children to school expecting them to come home with newfound knowledge of math, science and grammar, but sometimes they're taken aback when their children come home using profanity as well.It's a common problem, as students are growing up in a cursing culture, says Jim O'Connor, a public relations professional who founded the Cuss Control Academy in Lake Forest, Ill., to help people curb the habit. Children pick up expletives from any number of sources, including television, movies and music. But new social settings, including school, also can be a culprit, he says.
O'Connor says he has talked to many teachers and some say they have given up trying to clean up language used in their classrooms, while others demand, "not in my classroom."
It's very hard for me to imagine a classroom in which teachers allow cursing to go unpunished. If you can't stop that, how could you manage to stop even worse behavior?
Posted by kswygert at August 16, 2005 09:38 PM