School bans dictionary for vulgarity

[NorthernChaosGod]

I found a youtube clip of the women's suffrage "petition," and it wasn't Penn & Teller (they must have done a dihydrogen monoxide one). Still amusing.

The one girl who says "no!" is at 2:32.

YES! That's the video, it's lulzy. Those chicks are hella dumb.

Using a swear word in it's correct context is just like any other word. I want to make those people read Shakespeare and see if they try to ban that for having the word Bastard in a few of the plays

Yeah, about that.

I really, really hate people. I have almost no faith in humanity.

I bet they wouldn't have anything to say about Twilight.

[Bunny]

I never really understood the big deal with swear words. They only have a negative reputation because they are given a negative reputation by society. They have power because the masses give them power. I curse because it gets the point across better than using another word with a similar definition.

[Quindiana Jones]

I think Randy Freeman's name needs to be banned for the obvious sexual connotations. Children should not be exposed to such words.

[krissy]

CCPS pulls explicit text | Culpeper Star-Exponent

[Raistlin]

CCPS pulls explicit text | Culpeper Star-Exponent

Good idea, because we wouldn't want 8th graders knowing what a vagina is.

[krissy]

the more i think about it the more it makes sense actually
its just a version switch

[Raistlin]

True, it's just a "version switch," but the one "version" is simply a censored copy of the original, and the justification for it is simply to remove anything sexual from the reading material. Which makes sense for 4th graders, but not for 13- and 14-year-olds.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Wtf, how can you censor The Diary of Anne Frank? That's just smurfed up.

[qwertysaur]

Everyone, read banned books. It makes you cool

[Tavrobel]

I curse because it gets the point across better than using another word with a similar definition.

Additionally, they reduce pain when used as interjections.

[Raistlin]

You know who else disapproved of Anne Frank's vagina? HITLER!

[Rad Bromance]

The only books I recall being banned from our school library were The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and To Kill A Mockingbird, both because they repeatedly used a particular word that no one likes very much. This was, of course, at my middle school. My high school had both.

Shame really, because I ended up reading To Kill A Mockingbird outside of school, while still in middle school, and loved it.

[arcanedude34]

The only books I recall being banned from our school library were The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and To Kill A Mockingbird, both because they repeatedly used a particular word that no one likes very much. This was, of course, at my middle school. My high school had both.

Shame really, because I ended up reading To Kill A Mockingbird outside of school, while still in middle school, and loved it.

To ban To Kill a Mockingbird because of racial sensitivity is missing the point by about 180 degrees. To ban the dictionary because it has definitions of every word is missing the point by about 180 degrees as well.

Hey, I have an idea! Let's ban A Catcher in the Rye because it has swearing! Oh, wait...

[Peegee]

It's like they want kids to turn to their ignorant peers when they discover naughty words.

Pretty much. I'm not being facetious here...and yes I know this is GC and not World Events.

If the school bans dictionaries with dirty words in it, it absolves all responsibility (at least, until another sauce is found) of them teaching children profanities. Children can learn that crap from each other -- the school can't control that.

It's all about covering their ass and not about bettering society. Fun times.

The only books I recall being banned from our school library were The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and To Kill A Mockingbird, both because they repeatedly used a particular word that no one likes very much. This was, of course, at my middle school. My high school had both.

Shame really, because I ended up reading To Kill A Mockingbird outside of school, while still in middle school, and loved it.

To ban To Kill a Mockingbird because of racial sensitivity is missing the point by about 180 degrees. To ban the dictionary because it has definitions of every word is missing the point by about 180 degrees as well.

Hey, I have an idea! Let's ban A Catcher in the Rye because it has swearing! Oh, wait...

*turns 360 degrees and walks away*

[Vermachtnis]

If you turn 360 degrees you're back where you started and are walking forward not away