Fremont-Mills Community School District: Teacher posts list of banned words, phrases, and references in classroom
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At Fremont-Mills Community School District in Tabor, Iowa, seventh-grade teacher Leah Ingraham maintains a list of “banned words” in her classroom. The list categorically bans ordinary words that also have slang meanings — including “Ohio” and “chat” — and “references” to drugs, Nazis, or the Holocaust.
On December 10, ݮƵAPP wrote to Freemont-Mills CSD explaining that while schools have a legitimate interest in preventing classroom disruptions, that does not justify a categorical ban on certain words or references without regard to context. ݮƵAPP called on the district to remove the list from Ingraham’s classroom.
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