KDKA-TV Pittsburgh (11/2) reports that in an effort to turn "all of its campuses into...safe and conducive learning [environments]," the Wilkinsburg School District sent a letter to parents last week, asking them to help the district take "a proactive approach in stopping the recent increase in profanity toward teachers and staff." Superintendent Archie Perrin, Jr., said, "We don't want [to] spend time in school basically doing what should have already been done at home. ... We're not here to raise children, we're not here to discipline students, we're here to educate them." Wilkinsburg has a "zero tolerance policy...in place so that profanity doesn't escalate into other disruptive behaviors resulting in an unsafe learning environment."
WPXI-TV Pittsburgh (11/2) quotes Perrin as saying, "Violence is violence. We view verbal abuse as a form of violence in order to rid the district of that." Students who use profanity face punishment ranging "from a warning to expulsion."
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