Curious Teaching Methods

From the west coast:

In Shane Vance's 7th grade class, his teacher put up a big piece of paper and had the kids call out every cuss word and racial epithet they could dream up. The idea? Demystify bad language.

As a former stick in the mud, who went through middle school and high school without cussing even once, the educational value of such a class assignment would have been lost on my thirteen-year-old self.