Language

How do you get kids to clean up their language?

I am so tired of all the $%^$@#$&* I hear every day that, while I do not want them out of my room, they are going to have to go.

The word I am most tired of is n****r and its variant n***a. I don't say these words, I don't think these words and I am completely tired of having my surroundings polluted with these words. I have told the kids I consider them to be profanity. I had one kindermensch insist it is an integral part of his vocabulary. I finally told him there are vocabularies specific to different places and that word has no place in my classroom.

He is one of my repeaters. They can indulge their vocabulary to their heart's content in detention.