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The zero tolerance policy for swearing :-(
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The zero tolerance policy for swearing :-(
Notice: Whatever's your opinion is yours. I'm saying that the "zero tolerance" policy for swearing is bad and I hope you will agree with me, but you can make up your own mind.
My teacher has this "zero tolerance" policy for swearing. His punishment for just ONE swear word is no lunch hour, and even worse, the swearing person doesn't even get LUNCH!!! He does not even allow substitutions for swear words. I don't swear, but I feel sorry for those who are punished for swearing. In fact, I even want to do something about this policy (This means I may start a revolution, propaganda, etc.)
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Re: The zero tolerance policy for swearing :-(
What grade are you in? During high school we were allowed to swear.Anyways thats pretty gay
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Re: The zero tolerance policy for swearing :-(
At my school. My teachers dont give a shit. Plus i yell at everyone, cussing and just being an overall insane unstable person. Especially if i had a really bad day.Every day is a bad day for me. I blame school because everyone messes with me.
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Bah. Swearing is a part of life. People need to get over it. I used to hate swearing...Now it doesn't bother. I still don't use it much, only when the situation is extreme enough.
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Re: The zero tolerance policy for swearing :-(
liq3 Wrote:Bah. Swearing is a part of life. People need to get over it. I used to hate swearing...Now it doesn't bother. I still don't use it much, only when the situation is extreme enough.
I hate people saying o you have no right to say that in my class. Thats the time where i want to pull out a gun and kill whoever said that.
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Having a no swearing policy is stupid.
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Freedom of speech!
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Re: The zero tolerance policy for swearing :-(
steal sum little kids lunch and eat that....then u can say watever u want....
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Re: The zero tolerance policy for swearing :-(
Darthmat Wrote:Having a no swearing policy is stupid.
So true.
Hell, I'd have to say zero tolerance pretty much never makes sense.
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Stealth Wrote:Freedom of speech!
I agree with you Stealth. If you cannot swear because of rules, start a revolution.
Thanks to all of you who are supporting my opinion of zero tolerance for swearing.
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brok3niswack Wrote:What grade are you in? During high school we were allowed to swear.Anyways thats pretty gay
brok3niswack, I am in grade 7.
Thanks to all of you who support my opinion of zero tolerance for swearing.
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Xguy Wrote:Notice: Whatever's your opinion is yours. I'm saying that the "zero tolerance" policy for swearing is bad and I hope you will agree with me, but you can make up your own mind.
My teacher has this "zero tolerance" policy for swearing. His punishment for just ONE swear word is no lunch hour, and even worse, the swearing person doesn't even get LUNCH!!! He does not even allow substitutions for swear words. I don't swear, but I feel sorry for those who are punished for swearing. In fact, I even want to do something about this policy (This means I may start a revolution, propaganda, etc.)
I feel sorry for you because of your reaction to a perfectly logical rule. You wouldn't swear at your boss because it's disrespectful, you wouldn't swear at your mother. Or perhaps thats why you no longer have a mother.
Oh well, foster home must be nice.
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liq3 Wrote:Bah. Swearing is a part of life. People need to get over it. I used to hate swearing...Now it doesn't bother. I still don't use it much, only when the situation is extreme enough.
That's OK liq3, you were not used to swearing. As my notice says, you can have your own opinion about swearing and this zero tolerance for swearing.
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demonater10 Wrote:Xguy Wrote:Notice: Whatever's your opinion is yours. I'm saying that the "zero tolerance" policy for swearing is bad and I hope you will agree with me, but you can make up your own mind.
My teacher has this "zero tolerance" policy for swearing. His punishment for just ONE swear word is no lunch hour, and even worse, the swearing person doesn't even get LUNCH!!! He does not even allow substitutions for swear words. I don't swear, but I feel sorry for those who are punished for swearing. In fact, I even want to do something about this policy (This means I may start a revolution, propaganda, etc.)
I feel sorry for you because of your reaction to a perfectly logical rule. You wouldn't swear at your boss because it's disrespectful, you wouldn't swear at your mother. Or perhaps thats why you no longer have a mother.
Oh well, foster home must be nice.
demonator10, are you saying that the zero tolerance for swearing is perfectly logical?? It's not that I am mad at you, it's just that I want to know.
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Don't worry about him, he's a troll who needs to be banned soon. He's been saying random shit for a while now.
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at my school one girl got excluded for swearing at a teacher, i know she shouldn't have but exclusion? i bet she wouldn't have got more than a weeks detention for saying something else.
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I hate all policies against swearing. Freedom of speech is one of the things I live by, and I do swear a fair amount.
I don't like it when people swear at each other, though, because I also live by the belief that insulting others is wrong. I don't find it any worse than just calling them "stupid" or whatever, though.
I really don't get what's so bad about swearing. They're just words.
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It's to keep the school population ignorant and under control. Nobody ever died because somebody said the word fuck.
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swerings ok but skools need 2 no about our constitution we hav rites 2 u no
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EDIT: Shit, just realised it was BMP.
IT WAS A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT. NOW LEAVE HIM ALONE.
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What's the punishment for swearing twice? Thrice?
I think most people "swear" (I hate calling it that because it means something else too.) because they're told not to. This is perfect logical: If you didn't get to do something, you have to try it. More importantly, if someone you hate is telling you not to do something, you may want to disobey him. I avoid swearing partly because I've been told not to swear and partly because I like to use the best words in any situation and swear words don't normally seem to be the best words. I can't tell how much the latter is an excuse for the former.
I don't mean to say that this rule isn't stupid though.
I'm trying to think of some fun way to get punished such that parents, administration or other teachers would be appalled at the punishment. Talk about seals in French. Cry about how your paper is a piece of crap. Read On Bullshit, by Harry Frankfort. Yes! Do that one! I'll send it to you!
What's the class?
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Re: The zero tolerance policy for swearing :-(
swearing twice or thrice is just doubling or trippling the sentance
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Swear 195 times. Does the 196th time now count towards next year?
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Re: The zero tolerance policy for swearing :-(
no, if i do that i would probably just be excluded.
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Bad_Engrish_FalconPunch Wrote:IT WAS A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT. NOW LEAVE HIM ALONE.
Wow, I didn't think anyone would actually take that seriously.
It wasn't supposed to be taken that way.
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They used that phrase in The Dark Night. I tried hard not to burst out laughing.
I highly suggest Mobb Deep's albums The Infamous and Hell on Earth, if you have not listened to it yet.
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we wouldn't get told off for penis vagina pussy anus or cock, i dont think.
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My brother got suspended for saying "bullshit" in one of his papers and my dad sued the school for violating my brothers rights and he won.
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Noodlez Wrote:My brother got suspended for saying "bullshit" in one of his papers and my dad sued the school for violating my brothers rights and he won.
Bullshit.
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