On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:18:16 -0500, Mike Raiford wrote:

> or is swearing in a school free speech? If not, why not?

It depends on the venue.  On the playground, probably not.  Swearing at a 
teacher, though, might be disruptive to the class, so would be 
disallowed.  Schools are one venue where kids should be taught the 
community standards and norms of social interaction, and while swearing 
now is more common than when I was a kid, it's still not considered very 
socially acceptable (one just has to look at most business' rules of 
conduct to see that).

Jim

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