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I first heard the phrase in college, (from a Jewish woman named Christian…) so it felt like a ren faire.
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I’m going out on a limb here, but if the kid had uttered something, something like “Go Brandon!” it would have been just fine down there in Mississippi. Hell, the school board would take the child out for free ice cream.
“Unacceptable language” is subjective at best. Is there a teachers check box on that form for “I’'m an ignorant right wing bible thumper whose gawd is the one and only gawd and I is eagerly waiting for the apocalypse.”
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It similar to the passive voice. The speaker can’t bring themselves to say “Speaking for myself and only myself, I find this unacceptable”, so they attempt to transform their offense into a generalised social norm.
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As long as they do the same thing for kids that blaspheme against Muhammed/Allah, Buddah, Satan, or science; then that would be equitable. But I guarantee this school doesn’t, and that’s a violation of the Establishment Clause.
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They are not the “one true god” 
like Supply-side Jesus… /s
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I’m reminded of the time my friends’s toddler was playing with his grandmother and broke a toy, then exclaimed, “Oh, shit!” His grandmother very sweetly told him, “That’s not a nice word. When something like that happens you should just say, ‘Ay ay ay!’”
The kid promised to do what grandma said. The next time he broke something he yelled, “Ay ay ay! Oh, shit!”
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Username checks out…
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“Christ on a bicycle!” where I grew up.
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Saying “Jesus Christ” in the context that the child said it is fairly harmless, much like the little girl in the viral video who complains to her mother about the “f’ing goats.”
I’m from a rather large city in the US and not the Bible belt. I believe (perhaps incorrectly) that saying “Jesus Christ” in a conversation can change the conversation to an argument and saying “Jesus Christ” in an argument can change relative temperature of the situation to a fight in the way that a lot of other profanities do. This effect doesn’t necessarily change among non-Christians or the non-religious. Saying, “Jesus Christ,” as an utterance of anger is at the very least impolite.
Some people might say, “I don’t care what a bunch of hypersensitive Christians think.” Consider the next time you are having a vocal argument with a friend or loved one, instead if saying something like, “you’re being ridiculous” or “you shouldn’t have done that,” throw the “Jesus Christ” before that statement and see what happens.
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Exactly. Treat it the same way you would if the kid said “fuck”.
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Apparently they can. In fact, they insist.
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Yeah. I think it should have been handled like the mom did in the “f’ing goats” video.
It shouldn’t have escalated, but I still don’t see why this was important enough for the news.
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Well, a cursory search shows the story being reported on mostly Fox affiliates if that tells you anything.
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This statement indicates the person who gets violently offended at an irreverent exclamation really really needs to actually read the teachings of the person they claim to be getting offended on behalf of.
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It’s news because the DeSoto County school board chose to make it news by disciplining a 7-year-old.
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I don’t think the what the kid said was offensive. I do think saying, “Jesus Christ,” in an argumentative context is something that regular people (myself included) find offensive.
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