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Since this has reached absurdity level 11, what if, bear with me, what if the kid actually saw something while cleaning up the legos that the others did not?
“Jesus Christ!”
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Yeah, among the kinds of people who insist on screening G-rated movies for any hint of content that goes against scripture before letting their teenagers watch them.
There is a difference between “is considered” and “is widely considered,” much less “is universally considered.”
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For what it’s worth I was disciplined for the same thing when I was in elementary school in the 1980s at about the same age. I think I was in second grade.
I don’t remember the exact circumstances but I exclaimed “Jesus Christ” when something happened and the whole room went silent. The teacher became furious with me. I was sent to the principal and everything. (It wouldn’t be the last time I was sent to the principal for saying something “bad”, but those other times I most definitely deserved it.)
I had a largely secular upbringing and didn’t realize it was a mild swear when used that way; it was just something I heard adults saying when angry.
I don’t remember my parents getting involved (if they had I imagine they would have rolled their eyes at the whole thing) but it was still kind of traumatizing.
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I regularly say “Rabonye Shel Olam!” as an expletive. It means “Lord God Master of the Universe” in either Yiddish or Hebrew, I’m not sure which. I’m a pagan of presbyterian heritage, while my wife is secular jewish. My wife and daughter have caught on to this and are now using it themselves. So far the grandchild, who HAS already, aged two, learned “Oh My God!” from his Mother, has not repeated it. I’ve also been known to utter “Avalokiteshvara” and “Guru Ratnasambhabha” at moments of stress. Here in Manchester UK I think I’m pretty safe, so long as I avoid the Buddhist Temple cafeteria.
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Can he walk on Lego?
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Ouch…imagine getting one of those stuck in the stigmata!
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I remember one of my mom’s friends who liked to use me for unpaid unqualified babysitting so she could party once flipped out fully on me because the lights went out and I said “jesus christ” as we plunged into unexpected darkness. She didn’t want bad morals around her children.
Same lady switched religions to get a divorce, then got another divorce, killed the family pet once because she was depressed, and none of her children speak to her due to the ensuing drama caused by her unbridled narcissism.
Jesus Christ indeed.
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That example gets to the heart of the hypocrisy in situations like this.
I’m willing to bet that the teacher and administration at that school commit much worse sins than saying ‘Jesus Christ’ occasionally (and they probably do that, too).
But it’s the child, still very young and learning and without power to protect himself, who gets written up as the bad guy.
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Duplo!
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‘Tabarnak!’, which is a Quebecois swear of the most Catholic kind is a fave of mine.
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You owe me a sacrament de tabarnak Coke!
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I got hauled down to the principal’s office when I was in 1st grade b/c I called an asshole bully an “ass-hall.”
I’d fallen into a huge, muddy puddle and got soaked, and he laughed at me. So I called him an “ass-hall.”
Didn’t even properly pronounce the fucking swear word, and they acted like I was bringing about the end of the fucking world with a fucking word. JHFC
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I really don’t care how much kids blaspheme, but my Mum would have given this one a bollocking for dropping his aitches.
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