It sounds like a bit of a useless, badly though-out lesson, otherwise not in the least scandalous and the woman should have just talked to the teacher first, followed by the head teacher if necessary.

Perhaps the lesson should have been "It is never acceptable or appropriate" full stop.

It is a pity that this step-parent and her step-daughter thought that the best way of dealing with this was to go to the press - why not take it up with the school? It seems like attention seeking to me.

When a magistrate gives the ok?

Why all the fuss? In the High Street anyone can see that there are shops called Fcuk.

There is no place for a child of 11 to swear at all. My son is 23 years old and is only just comfortable swearing in a pub with me there. He actually works in the same company as me and still refrains from swearing in front of his Dad.
As stated in many many posts its all around us and to be honest my thoughts are that used in context its hardly a big deal. If all I had to worry about were a few bad words fro my kids growing up I would have been a happy man. Before you reach adulthood it is unnecessary in any context whether socially or for a cheap thrill for the kids,
As a child you need to learn to show respect to your elders and in turn you will be shown teh same respect. Sadly its missing in society

as someone who still atends school i respect my teachers and others around me i fine sweering pointlles and disrespectfull.

swearing and obscenities are not acceptable from any age group.

I don't use them and see no reason for anyone else too and certainly don't condone their use in any circumstance

I always think of it as users of this sort of language show how little they have between the ears

Huff: where is my answer to spiritofthe60s?

Children get their lessons on swearing and spitting from the overpaid chavs on the football field, who are often looked up to as role models, by the young people. I think the school was trying to put swearing into context, the lesson was just badly planned, having not informed the parents about the plan, to enable parents and teachers to work together for the good of the child.

I cannot belive that some people cannot see that this is the wrong thing to do !? I can only assume that with some of you swearing is an everyday part of your life ! I just give up on humanity ( if such a thing still exists )

Those who are saying that teachers should not use words such as these in lessons are right to an extent...obviously, videos etc have a rating on them for a reason, so maybe schools should have a similar rating system? The problem is that swearing has become more culturally widespread; the old notions of a 'watershed' time on TV has been bypassed by technology - I can watch programmes screened at 10pm the next morning on iPlayer etc. Our young people witness the very adult world much sooner than they did in the past. It is a cultural challenge that schools have to try and respond to - the lesson was not teaching young people to swear, but the effects of swearing. I do think that instead of a letter to parents (there could be a letter per week, which is not exactly environmentally friendly), schools should invite parents into school to co-plan the PSHCE syllabus in particular - sex, drugs, relationships etc so the vast majority are happy. As we can see on this page, there are a range of views on swearing which makes it difficult to get the agreement of all and that is the double-bind that schools find themselves in.

You can't make it up! Huffpost didn't post my post because I said that their verbatim reportage had corrupted my morals; and that to delete other posts that used profanity was somewhat hypocritical!