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I'd hope that schools were capable of providing material that could avoid swear words, asterixed or not. For every swear word there is a word that is not vulgar and is quite acceptable in ordinary civil and polite conversation.

I don't recall ever coming across asterixed swear words in school or in books unless I was delving into books targetted at adults, and they just use the normal words as they obviously weren't intended for youngsters. Unfortunately this forum IS open to all ages and respects that and so we expect everyone to respect the rules! You accept them when you sign up to the forum so there is hardly an excuse.

Anyway, people petitioning against a drug centre wont do anyone any good so I don't see why people are doing that. Drug use is a problem in this area and it should be targetted. If your child was targetted by a drug dealer and became hooked on cocaine I think you'd expect to have a centre available locally for them to get the treatment they need. I don't think you'd be seeing it as a lost cause for much longer anyway.