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Post by luke on Apr 7, 2006 14:54:39 GMT -5
Fall Out Boy
Boy do a lot of her kids like Fall Out Boy. My wife felt bad one time because a kid asked her if she liked Fall Out Boy, and she said, “No, they suck.” Later, she found out that Fall Out Boy was this kid’s favorite band.
Recently, one of her girls asked her if she liked Fall Out Boy, and when she gave the negative, the girl said, “You mean you don’t like rock?”
Just terrible.
One of her students also asked her if John Lennon was “that guy from the Hives.” Amazing.
Blaire
This girl was a weird one. My wife loved her. She was this sorta cute little dark haired girl who listened pretty exclusively to Cher and David Bowie. At 13, in the seventh grade. The kids would sometimes get days to not wear uniform, and this girl would show up in a Bowie t-shirt.
She sang some Cher song at the talent show. My wife coordinates said event, so I got to see the tape, and goddamned if this girl doesn’t sit around the house trying to sing like Cher.
Felt bad for her at times, because she’d catch shit for listening to all that “old music.” She moved away at the end of last year, and my wife gave her an old Bowie poster of mine. I had two (got them from a local record store when they were closing down, they pretty much let me take all the posters and stuff I wanted), so I didn’t mind. Whenever she's back in town, she stops by school to visit Mrs. Logan.
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Post by phil on Apr 7, 2006 14:58:52 GMT -5
One of her students also asked her if John Lennon was “that guy from the Hives.” Amazing.
"You mean ... Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings ??"
She was this sorta cute little dark haired girl who listened pretty exclusively to Cher and David Bowie.
Makes sense ! At some point they shared the same designer and make-up artist ... !!
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Post by shin on Apr 7, 2006 16:22:00 GMT -5
You made up Hollister Boy, didn't you?
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Post by luke on Apr 7, 2006 17:23:15 GMT -5
If only I had.
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Post by maarts on Apr 7, 2006 17:23:42 GMT -5
Sounds like your wife's got plenty of nerds on her hand.
Great read. Makes me think though what the hell i would have been described at when I was at school.
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Post by samplestiltskin on Apr 8, 2006 23:39:23 GMT -5
What is Hollister? I guess I am not up to speed in mall culture.
Kids are bred into being gay-ass superficial wussies now. Everything is so sterile for them -- bombarded with propaganda like "if you smoke cigarettes you are a dirty, stupid weakling who has succombed to peer pressure and nobody will ever want to be around you." I'm not saying it's a good thing to smoke, it's just weird watching the things the media has decided to focus on brainwashing our children out of. Soon being a rebel will be totally un-cool.
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Post by kmc on Apr 9, 2006 0:12:22 GMT -5
In the future, Cher/Bowie girl will be a in the Clique.
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Post by dolly on Apr 9, 2006 13:23:57 GMT -5
Premature birth. Some of them, I've noticed, are very pale and have bulgy eyes. Doubt all of them turn out like this, maybe it's just the ones whose parents ingested drugs. Hmmmm. Not seen kids of that description either really - only in the local special school. |
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on Apr 9, 2006 19:22:13 GMT -5
haha, the descriptions of these kids are hilarious.
I can't tell a premi kid from a regular birth kid, but I imagine they look like children with Foetal Alcohol Syndrome. They just don't look...right.
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on Apr 9, 2006 19:31:48 GMT -5
I've been volunteering on & off with some of the teams dealing with street kids & teen drug addicts over the last few years. I got back into it about 6 weeks ago & they have this program, like a sort of role model thing, where they partner a 'troubled' kid with an adult & you kind of mentor them. I thought I'd give it a go (although I find it funny that I'd ever be anyone's role model, let alone a mentor...haha).
They paired me with one of their most difficult kids. Her name is Angie, she's 14 & has multiple clinical diagnoses (if she survives to 18, she'll be guaranteed borderline). She's been arrested for prostitution, she smokes meth, her mother is some hardcore ex-AC/DC groupie junkie, no father (a succession of stepfathers who molest her etc).
I spend one day a week with her - we're onto week 4 now. She's really growing on me. At first, she was all bad attitude & 'fuck you, authoritah' etc, but she realised I'm not a counselor & I don't lecture her, so she's starting to trust me. I was a really shitty, 'problem' teen (but nowhere near as bad as her!), so I know how her mind works & I think that makes her feel...like more of a kid. She kind of eases up around me & loses the hard edge.
Its a learning curve. Teenagers are very confronting, she drills me on everything. But I think she could be a sweet kid. The meth thing has got to stop & then I'm going to work on her cigarette habit, her penchant for 20 year old guys. So far, I managed to convince her to dress a little less like a meth-slut & she now knows all the words to 'Love is a Battlefield'.
haha. I'm the worst role model ever...
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Post by Adam on Apr 9, 2006 23:19:53 GMT -5
Your own apprentice. Excellent.
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on Apr 9, 2006 23:30:04 GMT -5
haha. Yes, its perfect. She can do my evil bidding, like the flying monkeys of Oz
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Post by luke on Apr 10, 2006 11:11:59 GMT -5
Frightening.
Here's a couple more...
Jacob
This guy was one of the displaced Katrina kids. He’s supposed to be in the ninth grade, so his mother enrolled him into the high school. He was there for nearly a month before someone checked his transcript and realized that he had failed twice and belonged in the seventh grade.
He’s this huge kid, probably a good six feet tall and growing, but he’s got this squeaky Mike Tyson voice. He harasses most of the girls in class, and they can’t stand him. He tries to start fights, always talking tons of shit to kids much smaller than he. He’s already failing, and is probably won’t even go into G.E.D. next year. He’ll just drop out.
Emily
Emily is a little Welsh girl who embodies the American stereotype of a little British girl- light skin, light hair, light frame, blue eyes, soft-spoken and heavy on the proper English. She somehow managed to get some family in Kaplan, Louisiana, and wound up in my wife’s class last year.
She got along well with her peers, but would occasionally get into trouble for giving into peer pressure and doing something stupid to fit in. She would often ask my wife things like, “Ms. Andrews, what’s wrong with all these kids?”
Her uncle once came to class to talk about life in Britain, and later said that he was “shocked by the ignorance of some of the questions.” Like typical little American kids, they asked him questions like, “Do you have cars over there?” and “Do you have a TV?”
She’s back in Wales now, the lucky kid. She sends my wife the occasional e-mail.
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Post by luke on Apr 11, 2006 14:19:10 GMT -5
According to a recent e-mail, Hollister Boy also hates Aeropostale because their clothes "are so like ugh."
And I definitely had Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in mind with premies. There can be similarities.
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Post by luke on Apr 30, 2006 5:33:22 GMT -5
Randomness...
Wife got picked to go to some teacher's convention in San Diego this summer...pissed I can't go.
Hollister boy is definitely gay. Some dude was bragging on how good his abs were, so Hollister boy asked if he could see them, then the other guy went and told everybody how gay Hollister boy is.
None of my wife's kids know who Radiohead is.
She had to tell a bunch of them that wrestling wasn't real when they asked her...said it was like telling kids there was no Santa Claus, she felt terrible. But fuck, man, SEVENTH GRADE, that's nuts.
Some cute little red-head girl's mom was prostituting her for cash. Mom ran off and the cops got her or whatever. Fucking sick. That town she teaches in, there's lots of sick fucks.
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