108 Week 11 1st Year Guardian School Slang And Chomsky
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/15/london-school-bans-pupils-slang-innit
London school bans pupils from using ‘innit’, ‘like’, and ‘bare’
A list of slang words and phrases have been banned as part of a new initiative at a school in south London. Given the chance, which slang words or phrases would you put a stop to?
Carmen Fishwick theguardian.com, Tuesday 15 October 2013 15.47 BST
Staff at Harris Academy Upper Norwood hope to improve awareness of formal language by banning a list of slang words and phrases Photograph: @artsemergency
Students at Harris Academy Upper Norwood have been banned from using 10 informal phrases in school areas designated ‘formal language zones’, which includes all classrooms and corridors.
The initiative introduced in September, by the school’s new principal Chris Everitt, hopes to raise awareness about the use of language and prepare students for formal situations such as job interviews.
As part of the initiative students are also banned from beginning sentences with ‘basically’ and ending sentences with ‘yeah’.
Speaking to the Croydon Guardian, a spokesperson said the school wants students “to develop the soft skills they will need to compete for jobs and university places … and the skills they need to express themselves confidently and appropriately for a variety of audiences.”
The initiative is one of many introduced since the school achieved academy status in September 2013, after being put into special measures post-Ofsted inspection in January 2013.
What do you think of the initiative? And what words would you ban if you were in charge? Let us know in the thread below
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/16/banning-slang-harris-academy-alienate-young-people?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
Banning slang will only further alienate young people, innit
The Harris Academy in London’s Upper Norwood should not mute pupils’ voices, but instead look for better ways of motivating them
Will Coldwell
theguardian.com,
London school bans pupils from using ‘innit’, ‘like’, and ‘bare’
A list of slang words and phrases have been banned as part of a new initiative at a school in south London. Given the chance, which slang words or phrases would you put a stop to?
Carmen Fishwick theguardian.com, Tuesday 15 October 2013 15.47 BST
Staff at Harris Academy Upper Norwood hope to improve awareness of formal language by banning a list of slang words and phrases Photograph: @artsemergency
Students at Harris Academy Upper Norwood have been banned from using 10 informal phrases in school areas designated ‘formal language zones’, which includes all classrooms and corridors.
The initiative introduced in September, by the school’s new principal Chris Everitt, hopes to raise awareness about the use of language and prepare students for formal situations such as job interviews.
As part of the initiative students are also banned from beginning sentences with ‘basically’ and ending sentences with ‘yeah’.
Speaking to the Croydon Guardian, a spokesperson said the school wants students “to develop the soft skills they will need to compete for jobs and university places … and the skills they need to express themselves confidently and appropriately for a variety of audiences.”
The initiative is one of many introduced since the school achieved academy status in September 2013, after being put into special measures post-Ofsted inspection in January 2013.
What do you think of the initiative? And what words would you ban if you were in charge? Let us know in the thread below
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/16/banning-slang-harris-academy-alienate-young-people?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
Banning slang will only further alienate young people, innit
The Harris Academy in London’s Upper Norwood should not mute pupils’ voices, but instead look for better ways of motivating them
Will Coldwell
theguardian.com,