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Tuesday, 02 February 2010 13:49

Bad Language

Written by Martine Liberte
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Profanity is usually used when someone hurts themselves. Most of the time it accidentally slips out of their mouths, but nowadays students scream across the halls, “shut the #@?*! up you $?*@!”

Wayne Williams (‘10) said, “I feel that people are ignorant when they use bad language. If people can’t say a whole sentence without using foul language I feel that they are lacking knowledge.”

Many see students using bad language having no respect for the school, the staff, or other students. Many times during lunch, a crowd of students wander the halls disturbing other class rooms.

“It happens, but when it is in the public you have to control and represent yourself in a positive way because you never know who is around. Plus it becomes a habit and you do not know when you are using vulgar language,” Dr. Munrow explained.

Majority of girls at Norwalk High throw the names “hoe”, “slut”, and etc at each other. “It is foolish and it makes it okay for others to call them that too.” Amber Whitaker (’13) said.

Aisha Taylor (’13) believes that “If you calling it then your labeling yourself that you are. That is rude and disrespectful. Guys will get the wrong message by saying that.”

Susan Son (‘10) said “People are influenced by the media; they listen to a lot of music and watch reality shows. People could control what they say, but do not know how to talk before speaking.”

Each student is representing the school, and that reflects everyone. Mr. Laughton stated, “It is a sign of immaturity and disrespect. We are in school and it is not just teachers who find it distracting it is students also. Students should find a better way to express their feelings, and watch where they are when they speak, it is different when you are out of school.”

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  • Comment Link Danny Barrand Sunday, 07 March 2010 01:53 posted by Danny Barrand

    yea its important to learn how to talk properly when your young as you get older it gets harder to teach them i agree with elayne it is disrespectful towards other students and even teachers its a school environment if your at home its one thing but at school its a whole different story

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  • Comment Link Elayne Tuesday, 02 March 2010 19:27 posted by Elayne

    Martine --

    Thank you for writing this terrific article. My son is currently an 8th grader at Roton and is having a very hard time understanding why students speak like this. He doesn't understand how they don't see that it's disrespectful to teachers and students alike. He especially can't understand how people call their friends names and their friends let them get away with it. If you have respect for yourself, then you should show your peers and your teachers that same respect. I, for one, think the public schools need to do more to educate students about this and to raise awareness about the subject.

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  • Comment Link Danny Barrand Thursday, 04 February 2010 17:26 posted by Danny Barrand

    that is a very good point i find that language is a bad habit for many students like when students get angry a lot of times they express there anger by shouting out curse words as well i agree it is inappropiet for school we just got to try and ignor those people and we got to just basically worry about our selfs of what we say

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