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Students swearing

by Daniel Hanson

May 21, 2011

I teach at a public high school in California.)

With regard to student swearing, I hear a LOT of it at my school. Out in the hallways everyday as I walk back and forth from the back of campus (where my classroom portable is) to the front of the school (where the office and the staff lounge are) and I hear it in my classroom as well.

Our student handbook says that students may be suspended or expelled for habitual profanity or vulgarity. If we write a referral to the office for the use of profanity, obscenity, or vulgarity among students, the student is assigned Saturday School. After the second time, the student starts getting suspended. If the referral says the profanity was directed toward the teacher, the student automatically gets suspended.

At my school there was one dean that if I wrote a referral for profanity, the student automatically got suspended on the first offense. I thought that was a little too much. So, I decided to pick my own battles. Some ...See MoreI teach at a public high school in California.)

With regard to student swearing, I hear a LOT of it at my school. Out in the hallways everyday as I walk back and forth from the back of campus (where my classroom portable is) to the front of the school (where the office and the staff lounge are) and I hear it in my classroom as well.

Our student handbook says that students may be suspended or expelled for habitual profanity or vulgarity. If we write a referral to the office for the use of profanity, obscenity, or vulgarity among students, the student is assigned Saturday School. After the second time, the student starts getting suspended. If the referral says the profanity was directed toward the teacher, the student automatically gets suspended.

At my school there was one dean that if I wrote a referral for profanity, the student automatically got suspended on the first offense. I thought that was a little too much. So, I decided to pick my own battles. Some teachers issue a verbal warning for the first time and then write the student up if he or she continues to swear. As for me, lately, I've just been giving verbal warnings about it because I don't want to write referrals for it. I could probably easily write 3 or more referrals per class period for each time I heard a student swear in class. However, the thing is: I personally don't like to hear swearing...period.

So, do you think I should be consistent next year and just start writing referrals every time I hear a student swear in class?

On 5/21/11, Bulldog says NO!...more inside wrote: > First of all, "shut up" is polite where I came from (L.A.) ha-ha > Rude was "shut the *&%%$ up". > Second, cursing at students is not acceptable by ANY adult > within the school system. This includes sports coaches (where I > here it the most). I will admit I have said the word He'll > (less the apostrophe) when refering to places, but to just out > and out curse is inappropriate. I had a group of students one > year that were very foul-mouthed. I instituted a cuss jar. > Everytime a student cussed, s/he had to put his/her name in the > jar. At the end of the semester, there were only 2 of 21 > students without their names in the jar. Those students were > given a gift card for $25 for a restaurant of their choice. the > money came from our Honor Society. The other kids in the class > complained how it wasn't fair, but when I explained that part > of "honor" was self-control. The next year I had several of the > same students for their 12th grade Government class. Amazingly, > they asked if I was going to do the cuss jar again. I said yes > and the class had 10 of 18 that got gift cards. > > Bulldog!

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