Posted on 04/05/2014 5:15:01 AM PDT by JoeProBono
A Texas mom thinks it's bull that her 3-year-old girl was expelled from the Jubilee Child Development Center in San Antonio for saying "sh-t," WOAI reported.
"I don't condone her saying i,t but for that to be a faith-based day care, I would think that they would reinforce and let her know that's not a word to say," Cassandra Wright told the local station.
Wright said she doesn't use that word at home and isn't quite sure how little Arianna heard it in the first place. She even doubts whether she knows what it means.
"I asked her what word did you say and she told me 'animal,'" she said.
But Alissa Blankenship, the day care center's director, says the school has a zero tolerance policy for profanity because it spreads easily. She doesn't think this was an isolated incident anyway. She told the NBC affiliate that Arianna laughed after saying the word and worried she might say it again.
The center reserves the right to dismiss any child that is not in its best interest, she added.
"Well as a private center and also a parent myself you know there's decisions and choices that have to make," she explained.
Arianna is not the first child the center banned for cursing.
There are plenty of meme like bits of “information” hanging out at school passed on from one grade to the next; not unlike a virus. They are not part of the official curriculum imparted by the staff, but are passed around by the kids in their daily interactions. Only separation of the kids prevents inter-generational transmission.
It’s a BIG world out there. Speculate as you will.
The Dept of Just Us will take care of this.
Out of curiosity, what would be the basis of the bet?
I remember when my daughter was about 2-1/2, she fell down and dirtied the knees of her white leotard. She stood up, brushed her knees off and wiped her her palms against each other while proclaiming, "Oh tit" (mispronunciation common to toddlers). My wife and I looked at each other and realized that she had probably heard one of us, or some other individual older than her, use the phrase at one time and was trying to mimic the grown-ups for a "proper" situational response.
Kids pick up on a lot and you can't keep them from overhearing anyone around them and letting it run in their developing, high-energy/super-learning-mode minds.
IOW - $hit happens and it's not necessarily a sign that the parenting is below par when it does.
I agree. I wouldn’t even want my child in such a wussy, prissified place.
So, every time I'd get mad, I'd say "DAD GUMMIT!! or some other epithet like that. To this day, my kids (two of whom are adults now) don't cuss (even though they now know the words).
Then there's some softer words like...poopy...cow pile....
Remember when we looked all the “bad” words up in the dictionary.
No sense trying to teach the kid right from wrong just get rid of them. Zero tolerance is bad policy.
I had the song Davie Crocket - “King of the wild frontier” - on a yellow 45pm record and played it over and over and over while wearing my coonskin cap. I also had my toy pistol and a toy muzzle loader. I can only guess that my playing the song drove my Mother, Grandmother and sister crazy. At the time my Father was in Korea and missed out on the torture.
Maybe, but at least I’m not quick on the draw about accusing and condemning other people for their failings in life.
Not everything on the playground at school comes directly from home. Think about it some more. Get some more data.
When I was a kid, we used to get three strikes before you were out...
BTW, my grandmother was Irish and let me tell you that woman could make a sailor blush. I couldn’t choose the clan I was born into but I did make the right choices for me. Let me assure you, despite grandma’s colourful vocabulary, no one ever took GOD’s name in vain.
I’m old and cranky and have to be careful around the grandkids about which words/phrases, intonation and level of speech, and physical gesters I might use in stressful (mine, not their) situations. I do try, but sometimes like most human beings, I slip in a new word or two. :)
Oh8eleven’s got everything figured out. He’s even found the rope and tree to carry out the execution with.
Ballad Of Davy Crockett Lyrics - Eddy Arnold
Born on a mountain top in Tennessee
Greenest state in the land of the free
Raised in the woods so’s he knew every tree
Kilt him a bar when he was only three
Davy Davy Crockett king of the wild frontier
In eighteen thirteen the Creeks uprose
Addin’ redskin arrows to the country’s woes
Now Injun fightin’ is somethin’ he knows
So he shoulders his rifle and off he goes
Davy Davy Crockett the man who don’t know fear
Off through the woods he’s a marchin’ along
Makin’ up yarns and a singin’ a song
Itchin’ for fightin’ and rightin’ a wrong
He’s crazy as a bar and twice as strong
Davy Davy Crockett the buckskin buccaneer
Fought single-handed through the Injun War
Till the Creeks was whipped an’ peace was in store
An’ while he was handlin’ this risky chore
Made hisself a legend for evermore
Davy Davy Crockett king of the wild frontier
[ banjo ]
When he come home his politickin’ done
The western march had just begun
So he packed his gear and his trusty gun
And lit out grinnin’ to follow the sun
Davy Davy Crockett leading the pioneer
He heard of Houston and Austin so
To the Texas plains he just had to go
Where freedom was fightin’ another foe
And they needed him at the Alamo
Davy Davy Crockett the man who don’t know fear
His land is the biggest and his land is best
From grassy plains to the mountain crest
He’s ahead of us all meetin’ the test
Following his legend in to the West
Davy Davy Crockett king of the wild frontier
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