In an effort to make their pupils sound remotely educated, Harris Academy Upper Norwood school in Croydon has made a list of ‘bad words’ that their students are banned from saying.
These naughty words include: coz, aint, like, bare, extra, and innit, and anyone who dares say ‘you woz’ and ‘we woz’ will be asked to ‘reflect’ on it. It will also be unacceptable to begin sentences with ‘basically’ and end them with ‘yeah’. Bare unfair, yeah.
The ban was invoked following the school’s initiative that students will have more chance of future employment if they know how the express themselves ‘correctly’ and ‘appropriately’, and is supposedly also encouraged by Labour MP David Lammy, who believes that many young people nowadays struggle to use correct English in job interviews and covering letters.
He commented on the Daily Mail, “Speaking slang is fine in a social setting but a school should be a professional, educational environment and if part of that means banning slang then that’s fine by me,”
A spokeswoman for Harris Academy also commented, “This particular initiative is just one of the many ways in which we are building the vocabulary of our students and giving them the skills they need to express themselves confidently and appropriately for a variety of audiences.”
Basically like, we couldn’t care less. Innit.
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By Chelsea Forsyth
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