Really? You think an impermanent word is equivalent to nearly permanent piece of paper? You think a word that has almost no value even as a curse word is equally valuable to a sheet of paper that is lauded by nearly everyone?
I don’t get it when people find two things of minimal value and equate them.
mr cooper had this story on the rediculist last night.
he may not have been informed about the pig.
In the early 1950s, in a small town in Texas, I had a teacher who refused to use the word “helicopter” because “hell” was a bad word and should never be used in conversation. She insisted the the correct pronunciation was "heel e oh copter. Texas and Oklahoma are not too far apart when it comes to idiocy.
Really
Getting a HS degree is lauded. Almost no one cares if you have the physical piece of paper. Plus she can whip off a quick BS apology and get the piece of paper if it is important to her.
I think the minor punishment here was in proportion to the minor offence.
The actual prohibition against swearing is a little silly, but its kind of weird that people are treating this like some sort of OK specific thing. You’d get in trouble for swearing in a speech in my HS in a liberal, largely secular NE state as well. Personally I don’t care if kids swear when they address their classmates. But then, I don’t really care if they can’t either. If the school wants to ban cursing during public addresses (and I suspect almost all schools do, not just schools in OK), it doesn’t really fill me with righteous fury.