Dictionary banned from school classroom
“An American school has banned a dictionary from classrooms. Now the Menifee Union School District is forming a committee to decide if the dictionaries should be allowed back, or permanently banned. Sounds crazy?”
Click http://timesonline.typepad.com/schoolgate/2010/01/dictionary-banned-from-school-classroom.html for the full story.
So as a teacher, will I be prosecuted if I recommend Practical English Usage by Michael Swan to an under-18 student? It contains a lengthy section on taboo words, such as:
- crap
- balls
- cock
- screw
- wank
- cunt
- fuck me
- piss off
Now that I’m thinking, should this post have come with a warning that it contains sexually explicit vocabulary?