7 Year Old Suspended for Saying 'Hell' in School

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2004-02-06 04:43pm

Girl Suspended from School for Saying 'Hell'

The best part is finding out the girl's reason for saying 'hell' in school. I wonder if she'll ever realize the irony involved.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2004-02-06 04:50pm

Are they implying that since the school is suspending their daughter for swearing, that the school is also not suspending kids who bring weapons!?

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-02-06 04:50pm

now that's just taking being PC to unnecessary extremes.

Sporkzen · Post by **Sporkzen** » 2004-02-06 04:58pm

The girl didnt mean it as profanity when she said that. imo.
political correctness sucks... jeez

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-02-06 05:14pm

It is rather sad to see the level to which indoctrination has seeped into the children of fundies, though.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-02-06 05:23pm

HemlockGrey wrote:It is rather sad to see the level to which indoctrination has seeped into the children of fundies, though.

What, the "going to hell for blasphemy" stuff? That's nothing new.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-02-06 07:46pm

HemlockGrey wrote:It is rather sad to see the level to which indoctrination has seeped into the children of fundies, though.

Many kids say things like that at that age, as it's probably something they picked up in Sunday school.

Anyway, is "hell" even an expletive when referring to the Chrsitan afterlife? And if so, would be like getting suspended for saying "dick", but it was your friend's name?

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » 2004-02-06 08:42pm

I would hope that any child of mine, when told that they were going to be suspended for saying 'hell' would reply with "Well, since I'm going to be suspended anyway, you all can go fuck yourselves". True, I would have to discipline them severely, but it would still be funny.

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2004-02-06 08:49pm

Defiant wrote:I would hope that any child of mine, when told that they were going to be suspended for saying 'hell' would reply with "Well, since I'm going to be suspended anyway, you all can go fuck yourselves". True, I would have to discipline them severely, but it would still be funny.

They'd probably get expelled for that...

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » 2004-02-06 09:09pm

Ma Deuce wrote:
Defiant wrote:I would hope that any child of mine, when told that they were going to be suspended for saying 'hell' would reply with "Well, since I'm going to be suspended anyway, you all can go fuck yourselves". True, I would have to discipline them severely, but it would still be funny.
They'd probably get expelled for that...

Thus, this is probably why I don't have children.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-02-06 09:28pm

Say it with me, guys: Political Correctness and Zero Tolerance are Total Moral Cowardice!

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-02-06 09:52pm

Wow, Pittsburgh Public has sure changed since I went through it.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-02-06 10:23pm

LOL...personally my fave was the sheer avoidance of the school to define their own rules.

School officials were unavailable for comment. A Pittsburgh Public Schools spokeswoman told the newspaper that the student code prohibits profanity but does not provide a clear definition of what profanity is.

That and seriously this is PC BS at it's finest. Detenion maybe at WORST...but suspension?!

Wow.

Macross · Post by **Macross** » 2004-02-06 11:48pm

I support the decision to suspend her.

She was being religously oppresive to her fellow student when she told him she was going to hell for swearing. How dare she force her religon on others.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-02-07 04:13am

If somebody suspended my boy for saying "hell" at school, they would have to call home. This means I would find out, which in turn means I would go to the school to talk to them. And let's just say that they would discover a new definition of "profanity" by the time I'm done talking to them.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-02-07 04:36am

Thank god for my schooling then. Sometimes my teachers would swear - like when this teacher got nuts at the class and put his foot in the wall. He swore quite loudly after that. Ah, the pleasures of profanity.

But here's the weird thing (for me, at least). It could be that I'm from the arse-end of the world, but from where we come from 'hell' isn't a swear word. The article is a curious one. Who the fuck would get suspended for swearing? This whole issue reeks of the absurd.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-02-07 11:24am

If somebody suspended my boy for saying "hell" at school, they would have to call home. This means I would find out, which in turn means I would go to the school to talk to them. And let's just say that they would discover a new definition of "profanity" by the time I'm done talking to them.

That's an interesting thing about schools. Mine, especially, does not believe in human concepts like mercy or compassion. Offenses that would normally merit a warning earn a detention. Trespasses warranting a detention garner an in-school suspension, which they throw out like bread to the Russian masses. The assistant principals will attempt to physically intimidate you in order to force you to confess some minor wrongdoing; one girl, when confronted by an ast. principal about talking on her cell phone, was literally reduced to tears.

However, all their great and terrible power is reduced to nothing if the parents decide, for some reason or another, that the school is being unfair.

It's like a fucking nuclear bomb.

I imagine its like this in every school, everywhere, but if a parent doesn't approve of a disciplinary action the school has taken, the district will fold like French soldiers sitting in beachchairs. If somebody came into the main office gushing profanity at the principals (people, mind you, that freely mutiliate the psychological well-being of students on a daily basis for the crime of drinking at the water fountain too long), I do believe that they would literally beg for mercy.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2004-02-07 12:34pm

If saying hell or some other "profanity" in school is enough to get you suspended I would have been suspended a couple of times a day all throughout elementary school. As would most kids in my school. The worst you could get for saying hell, shit, fuck or anything like that was, "It isn't nice to swear" from a nearby teacher, if even that.

GySgt. Hartman · Post by **GySgt. Hartman** » 2004-02-07 12:42pm

Can you get suspended for saying "hell-o" or "could you please hell-p me"?

beyond hope · Post by **beyond hope** » 2004-02-07 12:56pm

I propose a class-action lawsuit against the paper for exposing us to that awful obscenity without rendering it in the santized "h*ll" form.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-02-07 02:56pm

Profanity as a whole is a bullshit concept. That someone takes offense at a word is just fucked up.

Darth Wong wrote:If somebody suspended my boy for saying "hell" at school, they would have to call home. This means I would find out, which in turn means I would go to the school to talk to them. And let's just say that they would discover a new definition of "profanity" by the time I'm done talking to them.

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Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-02-08 01:36am

Darth Wong wrote:If somebody suspended my boy for saying "hell" at school, they would have to call home. This means I would find out, which in turn means I would go to the school to talk to them. And let's just say that they would discover a new definition of "profanity" by the time I'm done talking to them.

Oh I'd love to be a fly on the wall in that office.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-02-08 03:18am

You know what's awful? When parents raise a shit storm when their kids deserved punishment. It's happened at my district before. This kid on my bus was causing so much trouble that about 10 minutes out from school we had to turn around and bring him back so the bus driver could operate safeley (read swearing and attempting to assualt me and anyone else in reach) and finish dropping kids off. His parents came in and got in the principals face swearing and going nuts over the incident. Oh the joys of no longer riding the bus...

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-02-08 03:14pm

I said "shit" in 1st grade, and only had to stay after school.....

But that was 1974.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-02-08 10:06pm

Frank Hipper wrote:I said "shit" in 1st grade, and only had to stay after school.....
But that was 1974.

I apparently said "fuck" in kindergarten, had to stack the chairs on the school verandah. (There were 7.) I didn't do it, and it was in 1991.