Allow!

[wub]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24522809

Slang banned from Croydon school to improve student speech



Slang such as "ain't", "innit" and "coz" has been banned from a school in south London to try to help students find future employment.

Harris Academy Upper Norwood said it implemented the initiative to allow its students to "express themselves confidently and appropriately".

Pupils heard using "informal language" will be asked to "reflect" on it.

Other banned words include "like", "bare" and "extra" and the phrases "you woz" and "we woz".

Starting sentences with "basically" and ending them with "yeah" is also considered to be too informal at the Croydon school.
'It's wrong'

In a statement, the school said: "In addition to giving students the teaching they need to thrive academically, we want them to develop the soft skills they will need to compete for jobs and university places.

"This particular initiative is just one of the many ways in which we are building the vocabulary of our students and giving them the skills they need to express themselves confidently and appropriately for a variety of audiences."

[Forum]

like That's just racist against geordies imo

[wub]

like That's just racist against geordies imo

And with the large number of Geordies attending secondary school in Croydon, this is of grave concern.

[kay]

Basically it's discrimination yeah?

[mIrReN]

haha if they did this in Belgium in our Provence it would be jokes, even some of our teachers talk in dialect.

[m8son666]

you woz m8

[wub]

Basically it's discrimination yeah?

Can you discriminate against vernacular?

[kay]

Dem mans disrespecking my freedims innit blud?

[magma]

Is it cos I is illiterate?

[wub]

Like a school discriminates against people who wear jeans by enforcing a uniform...how is this any different?

[ezza]

manz ILLiterate blud ya get me, sick

[Forum]

Uniforms are also ridiculous

[magma]

My teachers certainly corrected us if we ever used "ain't" or "nuffink"... outright banning seems a bit extreme, but yeah, a school is a school; it's a place of learning, not a public house... it's supposed to maintain some semblance of having standards.

[kay]

Banning = telling them to reflect on it though.

That's gonna be soooooooooo effective.

[dickman69]

Reflect on this

[jaydot]

How can you ban spontaneous speech?

[bennyfroobs]

Like a school discriminates against people who wear jeans by enforcing a uniform...how is this any different?

its massively different lol
+ telling kids to wear a uniform isnt discrimination

are asda employees descriminated against by being forced to wear asda branded tshirts when theyre working at asda?

[wub]

Like a school discriminates against people who wear jeans by enforcing a uniform...how is this any different?

its massively different lol
+ telling kids to wear a uniform isnt discrimination

So why is telling them to use certain words discrimination, but telling them to wear certain clothes not discrimination?

[m8son666]

i know its pretty different but you aren't allowed to swear in school and thats not discrimination

[wub]

i know its pretty different but you aren't allowed to swear in school and thats not discrimination

Same principle though...not using certain words.