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I give gentle reminders about home language and school language! I tell my little sailor mouths that home language is up to your grown ups at home but in school we don’t use those words when we talk. I honestly don’t reach out to parents about it unless a student is swearing to put another kid/adult down (f you, you’re a b, F off etc). I’m less strict about one slipping through in casual conversation. Ah dammit was a favorite of one of my kids a few years ago and we worked on other things we could say instead of- oh sugar, ah darn, etc.
Not knowing the age, some strategies may not be appropriate. I'd just say, find a carrot. Something the student will be motivated to adjust their language for.
I don't know how bad the problem is. At the 18-21 transition level, we reinforce professional standards including language. We also understand that when going into the working world, students are going to hear some language. They don't have to copy the language, and they also don't need to be overly offended by language.
My mother who was German would tell us that profanity is just a word. Words hold absolutely no meaning unless you make it a big deal, per my mother. As a school social worker, most of the kids I worked with as you can imagine swore like sailors.
If I concentrated on their words of profanity I would literally interrupted their entire train of thought. I did this when I was first started out but within a few years abandoned it. I need to hear the crux of their bief, issue, anger, etc. We can work on appropriate later once sifting through some of those more important issues.