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Not to insult the UK education system but ...Come on!! How stupid are these people?


U.K. school tailors policy to foul mouths
Students can use 'f-word' up to 5 times per lesson

As children throughout the country head back to school, many of them are probably muttering a few choice words about the prospect of returning to the classroom and the expected onslaught of homework. But can they utter those choice words and swear at their teachers? If they’re heading back to school in one town in England, then yes, they can.

According to a report in the U.K.’s Daily Mail, one school in the town of Wellingborough is allowing pupils to swear at teachers, providing they only do so no more than five times in a class. A tally of how many times the f-word is used will be kept and if the class exceeds the limit, they will be “spoken” to, the newspaper reported.

The school believes the policy will improve behavior, but parents and parliamentary members have condemned the rule and warned it would backfire.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9132814/

I wish Canada would adopt the same policy, fucking teachers... ;)

This is irrelevant to the main article, but your thread title is incorrect. In the UK, HE refers to university. 'High school' is simply 'secondary education'.

Not to insult the UK education system but ...Come on!! How stupid are these people?

It seems like a pretty impractical way of dealing with swearing. I think we get along well enough with teachers using their own initiative when it comes to this kind of thing.

Also, I'd like to point out that one school in the town of Wellingborough is not "the UK education system". It's not like this is a nationwide policy.

It just goes to show how poor the UK educational system has become. A well educated student would be able to enquire whether a teacher's mother has been able to identify which syphalitic child of a fille de joie had sired the teacher yet, or was the teacher still required to have knowledge of said mother in a biblical sense.

It just goes to show how poor the UK educational system has become. A well educated student would be able to enquire whether a teacher's mother has been able to identify which syphalitic child of a fille de joie had sired the teacher yet, or was the teacher still required to have knowledge of said mother in a biblical sense.
LOL!!