Gym classes are swimming, sticking to the shallow end for now, and this morning this kid decides he wants to dive off the board. So he does. He can't swim. He had to be rescued and sent home.
The very next block, my students are taking a story they wrote and turning it into a book, so there's a little cutting and pasting going on. One kid CUTS HIS HAIR in jagged lines and then glues his eyelid shut. Out of nowhere, for no reason. And starts to cry. He had to be sent home.
Finally, we have a public assistance program with some private schools. They offer to send one of their teachers to us for one day a week to help out wherever possible. What a waste of time. The guy we have right now spends his mornings complaining that public school kids are too much work, and hiding in his car all day...so we literally have to have people on "Harauld Patrol" trying to find him when he runs away. He had to be sent home.
Oh yeah, and the boys are pooping in the urinals.
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oh stop kids have been shitting in urinals for ever
And when was it ever not funny?
What makes this all so great is that it's the same every day, every year. We were this stupid, too. Actually, the ages of 11-13 are some of our brain's LEAST receptive to new skills and ideas...it's too busy trying to run the sinking ship that is the pubescent body. I always wanted to teach high school, preferably honors classes, but there is no job in the world as freaking screwed up as middle school.
I know I've posted it before, but this conversation still is just golden to me:
Student: Mr. McMillen, can I look up a picture and write the web address down so I can print it at home?
Me: Why don't you just look it up at home?
Student: I don't have a computer at home.
Me: ...
Student: Oh.
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My wife's parents both teach middle school, and I was really suprised at the amount of cases they've had of kids masturbating in school. They say they catch kids 3 or 4 times a year. In a few cases right there at their desks for christ's sake. It's been a while since I was in middle school, but I don't ever remember hearing about anyone doing that when I was in 6th - 8th grade.
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I think we only get one or two masterbation stories a year. Although we did bust a girl one year for trying to win a bet by doing something vile with a corndog.
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McParadigmatWork wrote:
I think we only get one or two masterbation stories a year. Although we did bust a girl one year for trying to win a bet by doing something vile with a corndog.
I think we only get one or two masterbation stories a year. Although we did bust a girl one year for trying to win a bet by doing something vile with a corndog.
Something vile as in eating a corndog?
almost as gross
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So we just printed in this class, and I ask for a volunteer to go and get the printed copies from the library. This girl raises her hand, and she's as close as they get to smart, so I send her. A full ten minutes later, she shows up with ONLY HER PAPER.
I ask her where the others are, and she frowns, says, "What?" and then, finally, "OHHH!"
She shuffled through all those other papers to find hers, and never realized she had volunteered to get all of them.
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There was this dirty story about two slutty girls at school when we were around 10 years old, but that's about it. So, how does it work with the USA school system? You go to what school from when to when?
In the Netherlands it used to be: peuterzaal (voluntarily, very young age) kleuterschool (Kindergarten, age 4-6) lagere school (age 6-12) middelbare school (age 12-16 or 17 or 18 depending on the type of school) and then either work or some other education, like college or university Nowadays they combined the kleuterschool and the lagere school to one 'basisschool' for children between 4 and 12.
groetjes, Mirella
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Here it pretty much goes as follows:
Some kids do pre-kindergarten (PK) Elementary school is next, usually Kindergarten-5th grade (ages 5-11) Middle School is 6th-8th (11-14) High School is last, 9th-12th (14-18)
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