F the teacher!

[Titus]

Students can use 'f-word' up to 5 times per lesson

[Treibenschnell]

Wow! How 'bout F that plan and F the kids. Little bastards...

[altiain]

The newspaper also reported that the 1,130-pupil school plans to send “praise postcards” to the parents of children who do not swear and who turn up on time for lessons.

Crap like this makes me want to vomit. Let's reward little Jimmy for doing nothing more than actually showing up for class on time.

I see the hoops my wife (a 4th grade math & science teacher) has to jump through to give a kid a zero - typically, they have to fail to turn an assignment in not once, not twice, not even three times! After their third failure to turn it in, they get to stay in at recess, or come to Saturday school to finish it.

It's disgusting to me.

But then again, I'm a Neanderthal - I still believe that the occasional swat with a belt or a paddle can work wonders. Too bad that's "child abuse" these days.