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Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:14 pm
by 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."
Re: Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:15 pm
by Forum
like
That's just racist against geordies imo
Re: Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:15 pm
by wub
southstar wrote: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.
Re: Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:18 pm
by kay
Basically it's discrimination yeah?
Re: Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:19 pm
by mIrReN
haha if they did this in Belgium in our Provence it would be jokes, even some of our teachers talk in dialect.
Re: Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:21 pm
by m8son666
you woz m8
Re: Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:22 pm
by wub
kay wrote:Basically it's discrimination yeah?
Can you discriminate against vernacular?
Re: Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:33 pm
by kay
Dem mans disrespecking my freedims innit blud?
Re: Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:34 pm
by magma
Is it cos I is illiterate?
Re: Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:37 pm
by wub
Like a school discriminates against people who wear jeans by enforcing a uniform...how is this any different?
Re: Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:39 pm
by ezza
manz ILLiterate blud ya get me, sick
Re: Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:39 pm
by Forum
Uniforms are also ridiculous
Re: Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:42 pm
by 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.
Re: Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:43 pm
by kay
Banning = telling them to reflect on it though.
That's gonna be soooooooooo effective.
Re: Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:58 pm
by dickman69
Reflect on this
Re: Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 1:19 pm
by jaydot
How can you ban spontaneous speech?
Re: Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 1:20 pm
by bennyfroobs
wub wrote: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?
Re: Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 1:23 pm
by wub
bennyfroobs wrote:wub wrote: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?
Re: Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 1:26 pm
by m8son666
i know its pretty different but you aren't allowed to swear in school and thats not discrimination
Re: Allow!
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 1:27 pm
by wub
m8son wrote: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.