As a husband of a middle school teacher and father and father in law of high school teachers, I too am glad you didn't confront the teacher on this one.
Reminded me though of about 15 years ago. My children attended our church school from pre-8th grades. One day my 4th grade daughter came home and said "Daddy, Mrs. F. said the
S-WORD in school today." ...my reply was something along the lines of "well, what happened then?" "She said...oops!...I shouldn't have said that...I'm sorry children." I asked her if all the kids laughed....she said no, they just sat there quietly. Probably stunned!
Pretty much the end of that conversation....my daughter has heard my "construction" words before...not that I am "proud" of it mind you.
As luck would have it, at church the following Sunday, I lead my row up to the altar for communion....guess who was the end of the row ahead of me...yep...Mrs. F. I just whispered "I hear you have quite a potty mouth" as we headed up for communion.
Needless to say she was quite embarrassed for what she had said in front of the kids...but still today, 15 years later, myself, daughter and Mrs. F. get a laugh out of it!
As someone pointed out the teacher may not even think **** is a bad word. Look at the
b word...said all day long on TV....the
f word is used in many songs we allow our kids to listen to.
Why do we allow
trash into our lives and turn our heads, yet get upset over the smallest of things?