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Author protests ban over phrase ‘generous bazoongas’
This article amuses the hell out of me. Apparently people believe that censorship is the method of curtailing offensive language in the class room, and we’re talking mundane offensive language. “Bazoongas” doesn’t really come across as crude enough to warrant censorship, let alone when you involve a cohort of grades four to six. I guarantee you, they already know words that would make the Pope blanche.
I would like to illuminate you to my first teacher at Sir Freddie B’s method of dealing with offensive language. Instead of making the vulgar anathema, the source and history of the statement is explained. Sometimes when people understand the reasons why the word is truly offensive, maybe they would remove the pejorative term from their vocabulary.
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