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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Yeah, I once got a whipping for calling my sis the F word. In retrospect, big-boned or healthy would have been a better word choice.
"glorification of black street talk"???
Oh,please!I went to an all white school in Millbrae,Ca,not exactly the heart and soul of black gangsta territory,and my classmates used every combinatiopn of names in the book,including the"N" word WITH the "er"ending!
BTW,this was in the EARLY Sixties,way before rap music and MTV.
ok, I will do it myself......:(
All kids are going to try swearing once they get around other kids. They keep it up when parents don't bother to teach them not to do so.
There is a difference between an occasional curse word and using profanity continually.
What's wrong with continual use of profanity? Nothing, if you want to come off as an ignorant, childish person with no social skills who is not worthy of being taken seriously.
I certainly agree.
How about it...it worked for me, my brother, and 2 sisters....we never needed "counseling" because of it. Sometimes I think people will make all the excuses in the world to not feel guilt for things they know in their heart they have done wrong. Doing the right thing is not always the easiest thing.
I am 33 years old, my mother never allowed us to say anything. Never the Lords name in vain, booty, nothing. To this day if I say something she doesnt approve of, I hear about it.
Shows the difference in parenting nowadays. If a person is accused of swearing, it's "not my child" and "what did you do to make him do it?" The times do change.
Mouth meet soap. And that goes for adults using foul language around children.
Amen.
This morning on the train I heard the most horrible language along with vile racial epithets . . . all coming from several African-American middle schoolers. It was sad to see them use the "n word" so profusely.
My white parents taught us that the n word was akin to the f word. I still have never used it to this day and recoil when I hear it.
I am sorry but I can not agree with you that it is all the fault of the public school system and give the parents a pass.
Amen to that. Parents will forever be the biggest influence on their kids. They certainly don't learn the language from their teachers (at least in my experience). My little first graders won't even say "shut up" or "stupid." Sometimes I have to watch my own language.
I know for a fact that he was right!
I agree with both of you. When someone flips me off, I sit and laugh at them. One guy cut me off and I have to swerve to avoid an accident. I honked my horn which got him mad. As he exited, he gave me the biggest birdie I've ever seen (his middle finger was as large as a very thick hot dog). Holy Cow! I don't think I've ever laughed so hard ever.
In my experience, kids usually learn or first hear cuss words on TV or in movies (viewed at home), then they "try them out" with their friends at school or hanging out.
You got that right. About the only things on TV that you don't hear are s--- and f---.
I walked or rode the bus everywhere for over 10 years. As a professional pedestrian, I couldn't count how many PARENTS I saw acting that way in front of little kids.
A little first grader of mine with teenage brothers had a swearing problem in kindergarten so his parents and he worked to find other options besides swearing. He dropped a book on his foot and said, "Son of a nutcracker," instead of something else. Works for me.
nope.........we had LOTS of fried chicken after church on Sunday!!:-))
Ohhhhh we never watched much on tv at all. But I can tell you we played a mean game of Jacks, and I could skate around the block faster than any kid on the block!! Remember skates that had keys?? Jumprope and our " swimming pool" was running through the sprinklers. Our children these days are SO DEPRIVED!! I feel sorry for them.
We now live in a society where "tolerance" is celebrated at the expense of moral correctness.
Have you given any thought to those two statements being in contradictory?
LOLOLOL!!!!!!!! Ok , the laugh is on me. Yep, your right.......I must have " fowl-ed" my post up!!!:-)) thanks for the correction!!
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