The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has contacted officials at an Iowa school to inform them that a social studies teacher’s list of “banned words” doesn’t pass constitutional muster.
The list, created by a seventh grade teacher at Fremont-Mills Middle and Senior HS, includes terms such as “pimp,” “womp womp,” “Ohio,” “sigma,” “chat,” and “meow.”
Violation of the word ban “automatically results in a thirty-minute detention” for which the teacher already has disciplined “at least ten students,” FIRE notes.
