8/29/2005
NEW VOCABULARY: I'm a big proponent of public school education--a fact which often separates me from most conservatives. However besotted the public school system in America is with pitfall liberalism and slipping standards, we can usually pat ourselves on the back when looking across the Atlantic.
An English school's new policy to allow students to swear five times a day is no exception. According to the headmaster of the 1,130 pupil Northamptonshire secondary school,
Whoa...talk about a convoluted thought process! As parents rely more heavily on the school system to inject values into education--effectively forcing teachers to parent--the notion that deeming inappropriate language appropriate at schools flies in the face of common sense.
An English school's new policy to allow students to swear five times a day is no exception. According to the headmaster of the 1,130 pupil Northamptonshire secondary school,
"The reality is that the f-word is part of these young adults' everyday language."
Whoa...talk about a convoluted thought process! As parents rely more heavily on the school system to inject values into education--effectively forcing teachers to parent--the notion that deeming inappropriate language appropriate at schools flies in the face of common sense.
# posted by Laura W @ 8/29/2005 12:59:00 PM 
