h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Thought I'd share the following with you all, which I plagiarised from the Mail on Sunday of 08/07/01. I can't recall the background to this, but it was obviously s'thing to do with teaching profanities. (I keep this inside the front cover of my Teacher's Planner).

"I thought they already taught swearing in the schools. Children these days seem so good at it. But, of course, when you think about it that cannot be right. If they actually taught bad language then few of their pupils would be able to use it, just as hardly any of them can spell or add up, let alone multiply.

In the same way, after 30 years of intensive sex education, the young seem mystified by the connection between intercourse and babies..

So perhaps we should rejoice that rude words are now being put on the National Curriculum. After a few years of this, everyone will be as hopeless at spelling expletives as French Connection, and possibly unable to pronounce them as well."

(As a trainerr at a recent INSET I attended commented, when children start school they stop learning"! Ironic


As an aside, whilst on the subject of French Connection, I agree with all the comments made above. Last yearI had a girl in my 6th Form who wore a thong with FCUK Me Now" emblazened across it. This is wholly inappropriate, and very worrying in the light of recent high profile events .