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Very cute... nice to have you here.
...if I said that to a woman I'd get slapped across the kisser....
Stephen King's books look tame to what you hear said on like buses or in the street. There were two 'bogan' type girls at the back of the bus yesterday, and they seemed to want everyone to know who gave what to their boyfriends.
And none of the kids I know, know any of those words.
I teach sixth grade in the Bible Belt, so most parents would freak out here if Mr. King were part of the curriculum. This past year, during a "down time" while we were doing state testing, I offered to show a DVD of the cartoon The Regular Show. One girl said, "My parents don't allow me to watch that." Even if the kids know the words and watch TV programs that include the words or play those video games, I think, in sixth grade anyway, that we have to respect the parents' and kids' wishes to not show programs that have swearing.
I was doing a science class at the small rural town. One of the student's father was a Baptist Minister in the town. I was talking about evolution and fossils. I said they were millions of years old. He said something like, 'That's rubbish, they were left in the ground a few thousand years ago to test our faith.' I didn't argue or anything. I said something like, 'If you want to believe that that's good. I believe God created evolution and the Universe and science and gravity and as long as your view doesn't hurt anyone, that's good.'
I had a similar incident this year in religious ed class. It's a delicate dance to present a fact without telling a kid his parents are full of what makes the grass grow.
I teach science as well, and am constantly telling the kids that they can believe exactly what they want, but we don't use faith in a class to prove science. If I ask how a rainbow is formed, a student will inevitably say, God put it there as a promise...etc. I have to say, But what's the science behind it? If I ask, Which came first, plants or animals? someone will tell me a Bible story.
