Sex and Drugs and Fights in School
By DW Davis
@DWDavis (25812)
Pikeville, North Carolina
February 28, 2017 5:21pm CST
There's never a dull moment in middle school these days.
On Monday we found out the other seventh grade team down the hall would be spending their planning period meeting with the Principal, Assistant Principal, a young man, and a young woman, to discuss why heavy petting on bared genitals in the classroom is inappropriate. This young couple had, evidently, thought the sub in the class on Friday was so distracted that she wouldn't notice the two of them engaged in some hands on sex education self-study in a corner of the room. They thought wrong.
Before that meeting got underway, we were informed about several boys on our team who have, allegedly, been dealing drugs in the bathroom. It seems they are coordinating rest room visits with their customers. Now, we can no longer allow them to leave the room to visit the rest room during class. It was bad enough that I have to spend every morning before class starts monitoring the bathroom. Now it appears I'll have to start doing so at the end of the school day, too, along with making surprise visits at random times during the day.
Our Principal has requested the police department to conduct a "random" drug dog sweep of the school, but as yet the police have not shown any interest in doing so. Sadly, they are too busy with bigger, more pressing problems.
Then today, when the students were returning from electives, I had to stop a fight from breaking out between a boy nearly my size, and a much smaller boy who supposedly was getting handsy with some girls including the big guys girlfriend. I had to physically prevent the big guy from going after the pervy little dude.
And it turns out the little dude is on the pervy side. He'd been doing a Donald on several of the girls in the class but they'd been to embarrassed to tell on him until now. The little guy is now suspended out-of-school for 5 days while the investigation to determine whether further actions need to be taken continue.
At least I didn't get hurt this time. The big guy, since he never hit the little guy, and he had a darn good reason for wanting to, did not receive any punishment. He also came to me afterward and thanked me for keeping him from trouncing the little guy and winding up in big trouble for it.
Other than that, my week has started off pretty good. How's your week going?
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23 responses
@katsmeow1213 (28717)
• United States
1 Mar 17
Middle School students???
My God what a scary world we live in!
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@katsmeow1213 (28717)
• United States
1 Mar 17
@DWDavis Imagine being a parent of one of students in that age group?
I'm so glad I found this school district to raise my kids in. I mean it's not perfect, we obviously have some problems ourselves.. but it could be so much worse and I'm so glad it's not!
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@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
1 Mar 17
Now you know why I do not particularly ever want to work at a middle school. It is just too much. Congratulations on surviving. Middle school and high school my kids never even knew half of what went on, but I would hear about it as a bus driver.
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@LovingMyBabies (85127)
• Valdosta, Georgia
1 Mar 17
Every time I read or hear something like this I'm grateful I Home School our children. Schools are a very different place now than when I was in school.
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@Deepizzaguy (94526)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
1 Mar 17
I am just happy that Mardi Gras ends the carnival season tonight in Lake Charles so the streets of Lake Charles will be clear to travel once again to do my grocery shopping.
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@Deepizzaguy (94526)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
1 Mar 17
@DWDavis That is a good question.
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
1 Mar 17
Good God! This is the country's future?
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
1 Mar 17
The good news is our country's future leaders are getting quality educations at Catholic Schools around the nation. Best education a kid can get, if you ask me.
For a lot of public school kids these days it seems we are just a holding pen until they're ready to be measured for their orange jumpsuits.
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
4 Mar 17
@JohnRoberts We are flabbergasted by the goings on some of these kids get into. The boy who just returned from a 5 day suspension for taking a picture of another boy going the bathroom is already in trouble for doing a Donald on a girl in his class.
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@shaggin (71666)
• United States
28 Feb 17
This is a really crazy start to your week wow! I can't imagine doing any of that in school and thinking I could get away with it. I was wild and always getting in trouble but I never did any of those things. Man kids are getting really bold!
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@kevin1877uk (36988)
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1 Mar 17
I guess it's become the norm these days at a much younger age, sad really.
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@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
1 Mar 17
What's the general opinion on teachers and teaching in the USA? In Germany, many people think it's a lazy job. Good pay and long holidays. What do they know about teachers doubling (and tripling) as social workers and police as well?
"doing a Donald" --- This is the first time I see this expression. Have you coined it or is it general usage? I guess it means touching a woman's genitals without asking for permission
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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1 Mar 17
With regards the intimate and public heavy petting and the peeping Tom, I know these things have always happened, but they are probably more prevalent today due to the internet. There is so much rubbish which they think is okay to copy. And yet education about the negative aspects of what can be found online is practically non-existent.
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
2 Mar 17
In our district, the students are instructed at the beginning of every year as to the dangers lurking on the internet and are not allowed to use school technology until they've had the presentation and taken a form home for them and their parents to read and sign.
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
4 Mar 17
@Poppylicious I reinforce it every time we go to the computer lab or when I use the iPad cart in my classroom. My colleagues do as well. The students also know if they get caught on such sites they will lose computer privileges and may be suspended.
@Poppylicious (11133)
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2 Mar 17
@DWDavis But is this education continued throughout the year? Are they told that the naughty sites they may access at home do not reflect real life? That not everything read on the internet is true? Over here we seem to spend so much time just telling them to be careful about who they're talking to and who they add as friends on social media that they seem to think the majority of adults are now out to harm them! Or, at the very least, that they can falsely accuse adults and be taken seriously. But we don't seem to tell them that it's important to be able to separate fact from fiction online. It's such a huge part of their lives and yet I don't think we spend enough time teaching about it, both in a positive light and a negative.
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@spaceseed (2843)
• India
1 Mar 17
This is now global concern............not only US but here in India as well. ten years before we could hardly see any boy or girl smoking in schools. but now it is common
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
2 Mar 17
@spaceseed @WriterAl It seems around the world we have forgotten how to raise our children. Everyone bends over backward "for the children" thinking the kids will appreciate it. Instead, they develop a sense of entitlement instead of a sense of responsibility and a work ethic.
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@TheInvisibleMan (17603)
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28 Feb 17
Unfortunately, these are three elements that seem to be increasingly present in schools.
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
1 Mar 17
@TheInvisibleMan If something drastic doesn't happen we're going to lose a whole generation of at risk kids because the resources to make a difference just aren't there.
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@CookieMonster46 (13447)
• United States
28 Jun 17
Too bad the police don't make a visit because they did for our school, they brought in the dogs and they did locker searches.They even arrested one kid, times have changed in the schools for the worse.
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@CookieMonster46 (13447)
• United States
28 Jun 17
@DWDavis I don't blame you... isn't it a shame.. all the schools have something.
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@JamesHxstatic (29242)
• Eugene, Oregon
1 Mar 17
That is quite a start for the week. I don't envy you a bit.
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
4 Mar 17
@HazySue The government has spent the last 50+ years telling people in the lower socio-economic strata that they don't have to be responsible for themselves or their children, and that their plight is not of their own doing, while at the same time paying them to stay poor and jobless while continuing to have children out of wedlock. How did they think this was going to turn out?
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@IamPreetam (223)
• Satna, India
1 Mar 17
very busy ahead my days. a lot of to doing
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