School starts swearing tally
BBC News is reporting about one English school which is starting to impose a swearing limit on its unruly pupils.
The students will be allowed to say the ‘F’ word up to five times in a lesson, and the teacher will keep a tally of this on the board. They’ll also be sending out ‘praise postcards’ to students who don’t swear so much.
It’s not exactly clear what will happen when they go over the limit, however.
Not to worry, though. It seems this is a sign of teachers understanding the pupils just that little bit more.
“In these sorts of situations teachers should be setting clear principles of ‘do and don’t',” said Nick Seaton, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education.
But headmaster Alan Large said he had received no complaints about the policy.
“The reality is that the f-word is part of these young adults’ everyday language,” he told the Daily Mail.
Assistant headmaster Richard White said the policy was aimed at two classes of 15 and 16-year-olds that were particularly unruly.
Hmm.