![]() ![]() Nevertheless schools are expected to teach restraint, and teachers themselves must act with decorum. It’s everywhere in the media and people no longer shield small children from it. Schools are fighting a losing battle against bad language. ![]() In the moment between killing the motor and removing the keys the sound system blares out in the quiet of the early morning and… the adolescent Alex Portnoy is trying to liberate himself from his mother’s tyranny by reciting a four-letter-word still not used in public discourse even in 2010. Picture if you will, a respectable middle-aged primary school teacher in the school car park. ![]() I’d read Portnoy’s Complaint years ago but there wasn’t much on offer at the library last time I was browsing for an audio book for the daily commute, so I thought ‘why not’? After all, I couldn’t remember anything about it except that it was scandalous in its day… ![]()
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