Victorville Ca.-Our local media has been covering what has quickly become the hot topic among High Desert residents. As if the articles title

Teachers urged to tolerate swearing

Inservice speaker outlines new ways teachers can deal with problem students

…was not enough to invoke a flurry of heated editorials, lines like

Teachers should never take anything a student says personally, Culberson said. He referred to a teacher’s personal “f-— you” meter, meaning the number of times a teenager swears at them before they would discipline the student. If teachers have a low tolerance for bad behavior and frequently send a student out of the classroom, the students will drive them crazy whereas teachers with a high tolerance will be able to calmly follow school procedure and still discipline the student, Culberson said in an interview.

…would have more than done the trick. The good news seems to be that our local community has spoken with pretty much one voice to express their displeasure with this type of policy. For a sampling of the letters the paper has recieved thus far, visit the editorial page