Thursday, March 12, 2009

Language Clean-Up

***Please excuse the profanity in this post. If you are offended by the use of profanity, you may want to pass on this one. And you should probably never visit my classroom.



Student (in conversation with other students): "That's hella fucking stupid!"
Me: "Come on, you can think of a better way to say that."
Student: "I'm sorry! I mean, that's hecka fucking stupid."

4 comments:

Roni said...

Ok, one teacher to another: how do you not laugh in front of the kids when they say stuff like that?

Geetha said...

Yeah, I just laughed. And laughed directly at the kid too. Not with her, at her.

Roni said...

Well, at least we know that odd religious modesty is still sacrosanct in the next generation. Perhaps the Pope should introduce some sort of orthodoxy by which the F-bomb is made to be unholy. At least it would be used more inventively.

Adrian said...

I love that! Which one of those words was profane?