Classroom Euphemisms: Teaching Civility as a Habit

Like so many other teachers, I constantly hear curse words and insults flung around in my middle school classroom by students who are testing their boundaries and acting on hormones. This has escalated, I think, since 2015 and 2016 when even the country’s leaders were using rude nicknames, cutting one another off, refusing to listen, … More Classroom Euphemisms: Teaching Civility as a Habit