Immature Boys

Metzgirl · Post by **Metzgirl** » Mon May 02, 2005 5:15 pm

Today I am substituting in a Reading classroom, designed for students who severely struggle with reading for one reason or another. The last class I had was comprised of 5 boys and one girl. The boys not only talked non-stop, they harrassed the girl, each other, and generally talked smack about the world at large, even though I could probably beat the crap out of all of them.

So, their conversation, and repeated disreguard of my promptings to shut up bring me to ask the following questions:

Is is possible for 8th grade boys to communicate with one another with out delcaring the rest of the world and each other gay? Are they able to solve differences without beating each other up? Would re-installing corpororal punishment solve any of these issues? Why the hell do they consider themselves tougher than everyone else? Is it really illegal to beat up students? I think they would be better off if they got a severe beating. Can I beat them? Please?

gravity · Post by **gravity** » Mon May 02, 2005 5:50 pm

In general, 8th grade boys really can't talk about anything without having to prove hw macho they are.

As a former 8th grade girl, I made them stop by giving them a good swift kick in the balls with steel toed boots. They stopped doing that around me and in my classes very quickly.

May not be the answer you're looking for, but it worked beautifully for me in middle school and high school!

Healer24 · Post by **Healer24** » Mon May 02, 2005 5:59 pm

Try confusing the hell out of them with large words. It's hard to talk smack to someone who is making your brain go

Lord Hayato · Post by **Lord Hayato** » Mon May 02, 2005 6:19 pm

As a former 8th Grade guy (the strange exception to the rule of 8th grade boys being trash-talking asshats) I always enjoyed confusing them. The conversation usually ended with them saying something along the lines of "Fuck you, you're gay!". And me walking off laughing at their stupidity.

Deacon · Post by **Deacon** » Mon May 02, 2005 6:33 pm

Like immature girls are any better

You obviously haven't had to teach at a ghetto school...

PhoenixGeek · Post by **PhoenixGeek** » Mon May 02, 2005 6:39 pm

I personally think they should be removed from the gene pool now before they hit high school and reproduce. Public executions would be a good way to get students to behave.

Arc Orion · Post by **Arc Orion** » Mon May 02, 2005 7:36 pm

Sadly, Deacon is right. And few of them get much better through high school. (That is boys and girls.)

Fixer · Post by **Fixer** » Mon May 02, 2005 7:44 pm

*tries to recall his 8th grade year*
*Disk Error: Abort, Retry, Fail?*
*Scandisk /r /a*
*Scanning............... complete.*
*Rerun*

wow, more than half my life ago.

You have two options, neither of which are pleasant.
1) Use your sex appeal to get their attention, then manipulate them into behaving.
2) Beat their little adolescent egos with explaining that, if they acted like that as adults, they'd still be living with their mothers and being fed cookies like the good little boys they are, instead of the macho badasses they are pretending to be. There would be no way a real woman would come within 20 feet of them with bravado like that.

Metzgirl · Post by **Metzgirl** » Mon May 02, 2005 8:25 pm

Alright, so I need to get some steel-toed boots, some kind of dominatrix outfit, and a leather whip?

Sex appeal and emasculation!

But seriously, when I attempted to explain anything rational, they would shrug it off and move onto calling the next person gay.

Deacon · Post by **Deacon** » Mon May 02, 2005 8:28 pm

[quote="Fixer";p="489086"]explaining that, if they acted like that as adults, they'd still be living with their mothers and being fed cookies like the good little boys they are, instead of the macho badasses they are pretending to be. There would be no way a real woman would come within 20 feet of them with bravado like that.[/quote]
No, I don't think lying to them is the best policy.

Post by **Blaze** » Mon May 02, 2005 11:22 pm

The only reason to deal with boys in 8th grade is for humor. A select FEW of us understood how stupid the rest of us were, but we were way too shy and afraid of mocking and teasing at the hands of the stupid ones to do anything about it.

HTRN · Post by **HTRN** » Mon May 02, 2005 11:40 pm

Well, for one thing, alot of the problems certain kids have with reading is attention span. You've got to hold it, or they'll go back immediately to acting like immature jackasses.

There are two ways to do this, the carrot and the stick. Either try to bribe them into doing what they're supposed to(the carrot) or crush their egos so they will do it out of fear(the stick)

I would suggest you find a combination of the two for it to work best.

A little dose of humiliation along with some motivation is probably you're best bet.

You just got to figure out what to use for each.

HTRN

Deacon · Post by **Deacon** » Mon May 02, 2005 11:58 pm

[quote="Blaze";p="489142"]The only reason to deal with boys in 8th grade is for humor. A select FEW of us understood how stupid the rest of us were, but we were way too shy and afraid of mocking and teasing at the hands of the stupid ones to do anything about it.[/quote]
That's what all the dorks say. I know. I was one myself.

Post by **Blaze** » Tue May 03, 2005 12:16 am

That's what all the dorks say. I know. I was one myself.

Preach on, bruddah!

Calus · Post by **Calus** » Tue May 03, 2005 3:11 am

I was lazy and smart in 8th grade. I know what I was back then and not much has changed with age.

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