Don’t Cuss!
I like this kid! McKay Hatch, a 14-year-old teen from California has started a campaign to stop cussing. The No Cussing Club puts out their challenge:
I won’t cuss, swear, use bad language, or tell dirty jokes. Clean language is the sign of intelligence and always demands respect. I will use my language to uplift, encourage and motivate. I will Leave People Better Than I Found Them!
The one thing that has grieved me is children even in elementary school dropping the f-bomb and other words that would’ve gotten you in trouble back in the day. I love the scene in the movie A Christmas Story where Ralphie Parker helps his dad change a tire and says”fffffffuuuuudddggggge!!” Next, you see him in the bathroom with a bar of soap in his mouth. It’s funny but it brings to mind a time not so long ago when things were at least a little more tame. My dad never cussed in front of me unless he was really mad, and even then he tried to control himself. The first time I heard the d-word, I was scared; I knew my father was angry. Now it’s meaningless and just another word, and our innocence is gone. Gone.
Godspeed to McKay Hatch and the No Cussing Club. On the website, you can become a member and start your own NCC chapter in your area. Based on the map on their index page, it doesn’t look like anyone from Delaware is in there yet.
For a more adult approach, check out the Cuss Control Academy.
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theconservativegeek
ttownjotes
i am in 6th grade and i attend the middle school in shelbyville, indiana. i am 11 years old. all the students seem to cuss terribly at this school, we just moved here and i hate the school, teachers, and the dirty mouthed kids. i don’t like to hear this kind of talk or even be around it. my mom and dad sometimes let things slip and i just tell them to use better words or just don’t say things like that around me. i am a very strong church believer, so that also makes me mad about kids as well as grown ups with their filthy talk.
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arianne cooper
good grief! shut up! u ppl r so silly. only in america will u get a grp of kids worrying about swearing and yet u have kids running around with guns n all sorts shooting ppl in schools. u dont get tht over in england.
have a childhood. live a little. swearing isnt gonna send u 2 hell u self righteous know it all. im not saying swear excessively but ppl do it just 2 let off sum anger in a less aggressive form than say some one who gets so het up they’ll go and kill someone.
Interesting comment by nen. I would suggest that if a group of students make an effort to not swear or tell dirty jokes, they are not going to be packing a 9mm in their backpack. I have never heard anyone of any decent reputation complain that there just wasn’t enough cursing. I agree that a little swearing isn’t going to send you to hell and I would say there is grace if you just hit your thumb with a hammer. However, this student is frustrated by people who feel compelled to swear excessively. When you are asking people to pass the ******** salt, you are showing ignorance and those people are usually the most angry people in the room. Do you laugh at people for planting flowers by the curb? Don’t knock someone for trying to brighten the landscape.
Individual rights have the power over the comfort of majority. If someone has beliefs, opinions or uses language that you dont agree with, who cares, deal with it-who are you to tell them it is wrong. The first amendment protects every kind of speech, even the kind that may make some feel uncomfortable.
Ash, you wrote “The first amendment protects every kind of speech, even the kind that may make some feel uncomfortable.” The first amendment reads, “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech…” We are not talking about Congress writing law, we are talking about a citizen creating a club to promote the cleansing of our language. And what do you mean by “Individual rights have the power over the comfort of majority”?
In response to nen: You are saying that cussing is okay? In the previous posts, it read that it is a sign of intelligence to limit one’s foul language. If your saying it’s okay, then it makes this statement true, learn how to properly type. If you are trying to prove a statement or opinion, try to appear a little intelligent, I am a junior in highschool and I have to say that I highly disagree with anyone’s statement who firstly refutes the first. I am actually making a report about such language, and will be using this as both quotes and what the population thinks, I am making a social satire essay….thank you, Mccay Hatch, and the being who first posted this. I am glad that I am not the only one who thought about this. America is not filled with gun wielding children, they are lost, that’s all. Check the news, just recently there was a report about Iran teaching kids how to be terrorists.
THIS KID HAS HIT THE NAIL RIGHT ON THE HEAD. I HAVE SAID THIS MANY MANY TIMES “USING A CUSS WORD OR FOUL WORD IS THE FEEBLE ATTEMPT OF A IMMATURE MIND TRYING UNSUCESSFULLY TO MAKE ITSELF ACCEPTED AND UNDERSTOOD”
MAYBE WE CAN CONVERT A FEW PEOPLE. GO GO KID