Expensive Oaths
Swearing in high school just got more expensive in Hartford Connecticut. In the schools where police are assigned, students caught swearing can be fined $103 for each offense. If the students can’t afford to pay the burden falls to the parents. The target isn’t the all too common profanity laced conversations of teens, but those students that swear at teachers and administrators. One student, 17 year old sophomore Keila Ayala was fined for swearing at an officer while handcuffed for trying to hit him. She said the fine won’t stop her from swearing, she just won’t swear at teachers. By the way how many 17 year old sophomores do you know?
I like the idea of less swearing in school, but what if the parents who are more likely to be the ones forced to pay don’t pay? A bench warrant? I can see some parents swearing about their kids’ swearing. Will they be fined? Maybe this is making the hallways quieter, but that doesn’t mean that students will stop defying teachers and administrators. That goes to the deeper problem of behavior and discipline.
Don Irvine is the chairman of Accuracy in Media, Accuracy in Academia’s parent group.
Don Irvine
Donald Irvine is the chairman of of Accuracy in Academia (AIA), a non-profit research group reporting on bias in education. Irvine follows his father’s legacy, Reed Irvine, to critically analyze the liberal media’s bias and brings over thirty years of media analysis experience. He has published countless blog posts and articles on media bias, in context of current events, and he has been interviewed by many news media outlets during his professional career. He currently hosts a livestream weekly show on AIA’s Facebook page which discusses current events.
Irvine graduated from the University of Maryland and rose up the ranks to become chairman of Accuracy in Media until his transition to AIA.
He resides in the suburbs around the nation’s capital and is a proud father and grandfather.
