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cruisemonkey · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 3:57 pm Post subject: My Students Are Weird!

I work at an all boys, public middle school.

1. Last week my co-teacher/handler's grandmother died and she took a day off. When I went to teach the class we have together that day, the students asked where she was. I told them she took the day off because her grandmother died and about six of the boys started cheering. Shocked

2. Yesterday, I had a class divided into two teams for a writing 'contest'... and one of the teams named themselves "Team Gay". I wasn't sure I had heard or understood correctly but one of the better students clarified my questions with "Yes, homosexual". Laughing

Strange kids indeed!

EricaSmile84 · Joined: 23 Jan 2008

Haha.

I'm at an all girls middle school and they are constantly talking about poop and farts. It's sickening. I don't know how many piles of clay poop I saw during ceramics week.

640x480 · Joined: 02 Apr 2008

"Screwed up...that's what kids are these days. "
A high school student told me this...a high school student...even he can see the changes in student behaviors.

Rusty Shackleford · Joined: 08 May 2008

Speaking of ddong. Some kid crapped behind the big screen tv in one of my classes a couple of weeks ago. Beat that.

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

Fishead soup · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Location: Korea

They are at the age when things that are taboo are interesting for shock value. The situation is worse in the middle east.

Get over it.

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:18 pm Post subject:

nicam · Joined: 14 Jun 2008

Really, bassexpander. Please do tell. Hilarious.

OP- Hey! Funny I stumbled upon this... about to shoot you a gay email.

I heart this thread, and have decided never to send my future children to gender segregated schools.

Fishead soup · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Location: Korea

aphase · Joined: 27 Apr 2006

I remember my first year here my grandfather passed away and I when I came back from his funeral, one of the students laughed and joked about it. Boy did she regret that. The tears were really flowing from her that day.

Rusty Shackleford · Joined: 08 May 2008

R-Seoul · Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Location: your place

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Last term I believe that one of my students - a second-year high school girl - took a dump in a little shed behind our old cafeteria. It's a little square shed about 3' X 5' near my house (I live in a teacher's residence) with one door missing. As I was walking home frm school one day I noticed a few not-so-nice students hanging around there. One was outside the shed and the other was squatting inside on the side with an open door talking on a phone. An hour later when I was leaving for the supermarket I thought I'd stop by and take a look - I had noticed some cigarette butts around there and wondered if there might be any fresh ones - and when I looked inside the side of the shed that was covered by a door there was a fresh pile of poop and three used pieces of toilet paper. Why, oh why, would you do that when the student toilets are only a minute's walk away?

cruisemonkey · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject:

I can just see it -

Thousands of years from now future archaeologists will be excavating K-schools from the 21st century full of... coprolites!... and scratching their heads, going WTF?