Costly Cursing
National News
by
Jeff Stoecker
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Friday, February 05, 2010
Forget the bar of soap.Connecticut's Windsor High School is going after your wallet when you swear, and the price of profanity is over $100.
As of Monday, dropping a prohibited four-letter word gets a student a ticket from the cops.
Principal Russell Sills sent home a letter to parents explaining the fines: "Students who use profanity directed toward a teacher, toward another student in class or during a verbal altercation in the hallway or cafeteria will receive a Windsor Police ticket for Creating a Public Disturbance. The fine for this offense is $103.00. Failure to pay the fine will result in a court appearance."
Sills cast his new policy as an attempt to push back against the profanity students are exposed to in the media. He also wrote that he hoped students would learn to "think before they speak."