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Why?
Also, you can't stop language from changing. Change is certain. We don't talk like people 100 years ago and that's a good thing.
Those are phrases that get repeated verbatim as responses, which is the hypothetical reason they might be included on this (maaaaybe fake?) list. I'm actually slightly tired of them too, I have a couple students that really overuse them as responses to everything.
...Though I'd never be dumb enough to tell them that.
Yeah making a list like this deserves doubling down on that kind of slang.
I'm betting (hoping?) this was done with a bit of tongue in cheek, especially since there's a nice, close up picture of the list and it uses up significant board real estate.
Humbling kids with some self awareness is great, especially in middle school. Self reflection and metacognition (why do we do what we do?) are super important tools for kids and leads to more empathy and better conflict resolution.
If this is just a teacher being a crotchety conservative, then yeah, you're right. But I'm willing to bet the kids even helped make the list and had a good time doing it.
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Yeah, they forgot to put "on my soul" on the list, though the kids at my school are all illiterate, so they just parrot it as "oh my SO".
Every. Five. Seconds.
The correct solution here is to just use these back at them at every opportunity. I feed on the cringe every time they say they didn't do something and I get the privilege to respond, flatly and with enunciation: "Cap."
My guess is they are used sarcastically/ironically and whoever made the board is sick of hearing them.