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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
I completely disagree! No matter what race you are, profane and offensive language is inappropriate in school. It doesn't matter what parents teach the children at home...at school, the teacher is the boss and can CORRECT any behavior that is inappropriate.
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It's inappropriate to you, personally, and it is most certainly inappropriate in school, but it may not be inappropriate to the child's parents. As I mentioned, as a teacher, you have the obligation to ban potentially offensive language
in your classroom and explain to children why such language is inappropropriate in that context. I would support you wholeheartedly there.
On the other hand, if you brought it to the parents attention and they were as horrified as you were, at that point, reinforcing what they're already teaching at home is terrific.
We all do a disservice to children when we chastise
them outside of the parents' wishes. It's counterproductive to teach (in school or otherwise) values if they aren't being reinforced at home.
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