Cursing jar in high school? What the @#$#@?!
When you were in school, if you launched a mouthful of profanity in one of your classes, and your teacher overheard, could you have just paid the teacher 25 cents and been done with it?
If you said, "no, I would have received a painful paddling with a piece of wood'' then you are not a recent student at Cypress Bay High School in Weston. 
Two of the teachers there apparently have "curse cans,'' where quarters are collected from students who use profanity in class.
I am judging a high school journalism contest and that's how I found out about this. Student journalist Emily Miller wrote about it for that school's newspaper, The Circuit.
One student was quoted saying "I have probably paid over $15.''
!!!!
That's 90 curse words that flew out of her mouth!
By the way, this is the same school and paper that are the subject of their very own MTV reality show.
This swear jar seems unfair. Why should rich kids be able to curse more than poor kids?
Comments
Parents and teachers have become spineless wimps, and are setting poor examples to boot, is what it comes down to. Curse in my school when I was a kid, you either had to eat soap, or you got paddled, your choice.
Posted by: Jeff | April 22, 2008 2:47 PM