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ORIGINAL: Baroana
http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/new_jersey/20130202_ap_njschoolimplementsnocursingpledgeforgirls.html
Thoughts?
The part that really pushes my buttons is the quote from the teenage boy about how girls are "unattractive" when they curse.
Oh, I'm sorry, was I being unattractive??? I forgot that my number one job in life is to be attractive to males!
Article text:
NORTH ARLINGTON, N.J. - Female students at a Catholic high school in northern New Jersey have taken a "no-cursing" pledge at the request of school administrators, though some question why no such demand was made of male students.
Lori Flynn, a teacher who organized the campaign at Queen of Peace High School in North Arlington, told The Record of Woodland Park (http://bit.ly/XPsaJd) there is no double-standard. She says that while males weren't asked to take the vow, they have been asked not to swear when girls are near.
Flynn says school officials want "ladies to act like ladies." And Brother Larry Lavallee, the school's principal, says girls have the foulest language.
Many girls said they would try to follow the pledge they took Friday morning, even though they believe it should apply to all students.
Sixteen-year-old Kaitlin McEnery said the pledge is a "good idea," but believes that "putting it into action is the problem." And classmate Dana Cotter, 16, thought that male students should join the pledge because "boys should be more like gentlemen."
Teachers said they hoped that if the girls focused on cleaning up their speech on campus for a month, their improved manners would take hold and rub off on the boys. They timed the initiative to Catholic Schools Week and the old-fashioned romance of Valentine's Day, promising lollipops as rewards and handing out pins showing a red slash through a pair of pink lips.
"It's unattractive when girls have potty mouths," said Nicholas Recarte, 16. A pitcher on the school's baseball team, Recarte said he can't help shouting obscenities from the mound after mishaps, and he didn't expect that to change.
Information from: The Record (Woodland Park, N.J.), http://www.northjersey.com

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ORIGINAL: freedomdwarf1
There is a time and a place for cursing obsceneties - whether male or female.
And a school isn't one of them!
In most of our schools, you'd get some sort of detention or suspension if you are caught swearing - and a letter to take home to your parents!!
As for an oath applying only to the girls - where is the sexual equality???
If I were one of the girls I would have brought that up.
Over here, something like that is actually illegal to enforce because of the European sexual equality laws.
Maybe you could use something of what we have?
Sometimes the law is an ass and we do complain about it.
But just sometimes, it's a blessing in disguise

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Brother Larry Lavallee, the school's principal, says girls have the foulest language.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

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Brother Larry Lavallee, the school's principal, says girls have the foulest language.

Queen of Peace High School Principal Brother Larry Lavallee will step down from his position effective June 2013. Lavallee has been a principal at the North Arlington Catholic School since 2008.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

LOL maybe this was his own "fuck you" good bye salute

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ORIGINAL: littlewonder

I'm fine with it. The girls are not being forced to sign this pledge. It's their perogative.

I'd say if the boys want to start such a pledge as well, good for them. It just so happens that the girls started this one themselves it seems. It's not the school that is doing this. It was a teacher who took the initiative.That doesn't mean another teacher can't take the initiative for the boys or the boys can't start their own.

Personally yeah, being a girl with a potty mouth is unattractive. It's unattractive with boys too but imo, when I hear a girl cursing, I get a picture of a girl who was raised around boys or was taught to act like a boy or is trying to act all hot shit because she thinks that boys are attracted to such stuff or they were raised in a rough neighborhood.

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ORIGINAL: fucktoyprincess

As for swearing in general - I think it is very much a matter of time and place. And school is a place where I feel there should be lower tolerance for swearing rather than more.