An Iowa school is for having no “rizz.” A teacher in a school district near the Nebraska border is being accused of banning the word short for charisma along with over two dozen slang words popular among Gen Alpha — kids born after 2009. The Fremont-Mills Community School District teacher wouldn't be the first to ban slang.
Many teachers nationwide have taken to social media detailing words they don't allow in class. But the fight over language at the school in Iowa reached a heated pitch when parents and a free speech group pushed back and accused the teacher of instituting a ban that violates students' rights. Parents and the sent a letter to school administrators and said the teacher punished students who used the slang words with detention.
"Our concern is that this teacher is imposing a blanket ban on a long list of words, phrases and even references, including ordinary words like 'Ohio' and 'chat,' without regard to their context," said Aaron Terr, an attorney with the Philadelphia-based nonprofit advocating for free speech. The word "Ohio" has come to mean something weird in the . The group's Dec.
10 letter to Kurt Hanna, principal of the secondary school, included a picture of a large paper sign it said was hanging in the teacher's classroom titled "X BANNED WORDS X" with a handwritten list of about 30 words and topics students should not reference. The words include "skibidi," and "sigma." is a largely nonsense word that can mean cool or dumb, and Sigma often j.
