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The use of profanity and sexual innuendo in the classroom is inappropriate

Dec 07, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
I am utterly shocked by the report in the SN on December 3, that Evan Persaud, UG lecturer, admitted to using profanity and sexual innuendo in the classroom – and justifying his stance by saying that, “This is how people will talk to them out there…this is the nature of this business”.
What is the present opinion of the Chancellor of UG on this matter? How does the University Council view Mr. Persaud’s use of profanity and sexual innuendo in the classroom? Is the Students’ Council taking this without a rebellion? What about other civic and religious organisations in Guyana? And, is Evan Persaud still an executive member of the Indian Arrival Committee?
In my years of undergraduate and graduate classroom experience, I have never heard profanity on the tongue of a lecturer or professor.
And about “this is how people will talk to them out there…” well, I have a feeling that Mr. Persaud’s “talk…out there” is very different from that of many.
It is rather sad, sickening and repulsive to hear expletives used in the minibuses, in the public and even in some expressions in the media in Guyana. Unfortunately it has become so common place that it is hardly noticeable. But…to have the use of profanity and expletives in the University classroom?
Profanity is sleazy, loathsome and scuzzy expression used by many whose vocabulary is limited to have a cheap (and dirty) way out – to “impress” others.
No effort should be spared to sanitize the classroom of such filth.
Devanand Bhagwan

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