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JSBBrainiac · 10-16-2004, 04:07 AM

I have to say that because this is likely the first time this kid has even faced a judge, he'll probably get off with some community service at most. What they ought to do at that school though is start fining kids for using foul language. The schoolwide equivalent of a swear jar. Bad enough that some of us as adults use that kind of language. Kids sure don't need to.

Unfortunately, when they hear continual streams of it from music, movies, and even TV, it's going to start pouring out of them just as much. There's an old computer programming maxim abbreviated GIGO. It means Garbage In, Garbage Out. Same thing happens with a brain as a computer. You put trash into it, you get trash comming out in what a person does and says. I think the way this kid treated the teacher is a prime example of that.

10-16-2004, 04:07 AM	#51 (permalink)
JSBBrainiac Upright	I have to say that because this is likely the first time this kid has even faced a judge, he'll probably get off with some community service at most. What they ought to do at that school though is start fining kids for using foul language. The schoolwide equivalent of a swear jar. Bad enough that some of us as adults use that kind of language. Kids sure don't need to. Unfortunately, when they hear continual streams of it from music, movies, and even TV, it's going to start pouring out of them just as much. There's an old computer programming maxim abbreviated GIGO. It means Garbage In, Garbage Out. Same thing happens with a brain as a computer. You put trash into it, you get trash comming out in what a person does and says. I think the way this kid treated the teacher is a prime example of that. __________________ JSBBrainiac ----------- There are only 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.