Things My Students Say Part 1

I had a PPt slide that had Smurfette on it, because I was trying to be funny, and a student of mine said, "I would do her and her blueness." MMMmmmK. This is the same student who, yesterday, said a "dirty douche" would be considered physical capital (this is an Econ class). He's not serious; he likes to get a rise out of me and make his classmates laugh, but sometimes he goes to far or is just annoying, not funny. I wish I would have started recording the stuff he has said since the beginning of the year. There's a running joke about him in the class that if I had put a penny in a jar for every time he said something ridiculous, we could afford the biggest pizza party the school had ever seen. Maybe I really should start doing that! This kids really does have some bizarre things in his head. What's interesting is that I looked him up on Facebook (for an entirely unrelated reason) and one of the "pages" he belongs to is something like "I can turn anything you say into something sexual." Not very appropriate but definitely reflective of his personality. I wonder what he would be like as a boyfriend. Not for me of course, oh my GOD no, but for some unsuspecting high schooler. I don't see him as boyfriend material because he seems to have such pent up sexual frustration or something. He wouldn't know how to treat a girl right. Another student I have, in a different class, would definitely be a good boyfriend. He likes this girl in the class, but she is dating someone, and this girl likes my kid too, but she feels guilty breaking up with her boyfriend. I feel so bad for him because he is a good kid, and he truly cares about this girl, but she won't do the right thing. Her boyfriend is Mormon and she feels like she can't do that to him. Whatever. Wow, listen to me, getting into the teenage drama. I can't help it. I have no real drama these days, so I live vicariously through my students. I don't remember high school being as anxsty as it is these days, and I really don't think it's because I'm so far removed from the period. I just honestly don't remember there being so many fights (physical and emotional), girls getting pregnant, students being disrespectful to adults, and on and on and on. When did this all become normal? My girls talk to me all the time about wanting to kick this bitch's ass, or beat this bitch down, or how they are the "other woman". It truly shocks me because I SWEAR school didn't used to be like that. Back then, if you said something about someone, you didn't really get confronted with it. Now, you'll get your ass kicked for it real quick. Girls are bigger fighters than the boys in some cases.

It's getting late and I'm rattling...