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DETROIT, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A Michigan nun stunned her students by telling them they were no longer allowed to say swear words, then saying the words so they would know what she meant.
After hearing that swear words were being used on the playground, Sister Kathy Avery of St. Clare of Montefalco Catholic School in Grosse Pointe Park took a direct approach to stop children from cursing, the Detroit Free Press reported Monday.
She held the fifth through eighth-graders after mass and informed them of her zero-tolerance policy for swearing before launching into a list of every swear word that was banned from school grounds, including the non-swear words "boring" and "stupid."
"It got a little quiet in church," Avery said. "Sometimes I think children don't know what words to use, they use them because they've heard them from other people."
"I think they knew that I drew the line," she added.
Avery said she isn't surprised that her approach worked, she had already done the same thing in two previous schools, in Sioux City, Iowa, and Pikesville, Ky.
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