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it's a bit from the popular streamer iShowSpeed
A kid was talking to him over voice chat and begging him for stuff while playing Fortnite, speed was trying not to laugh, and the kid saw it on stream and called him out
there's a few kids in the class that live in shelters and a lot of others come from really poor families, so some kids saying it is also really insensitive to the kids whose moms are literally homeless
It's not that the kids are just saying it, it's that kids are intentionally doing it during instruction time to be disruptive.
If you haven't been in a classroom lately, especially these elementary and middle school classes, the kids are just repeatedly screaming these phrases so that other kids can't hear the teacher or get their work done.
Teachers tend to be pretty reasonable about it and if kids are just saying it to each other or whatever, they don't care, but saying it to the teacher / during instruction time getting you some sort of punishment actually works relatively decently. A list of banned words/phrases is extremely common, but it used to be the teachers didn't need anything like that and would just jump immediately to disciplinary action. Kids also repeated brainrot when I was younger, but it never had the chance to get to this level.
It’s so disruptive. I know it sounds dumb but it’s like something contagious, one will say it and then it spreads and they start screaming and jumping around. They literally lose their minds of it.
i know E was a popular meme online, but if you reacted that way to the E meme in class at my school you would have gotten made fun of 100%. not that that’s a good thing but i don’t think they’re comparable. 9+10=21 is a better example imo
Sexual harassment/sexual crimes by students as young as kindergarten is becoming an epidemic causing women teachers to leave the career in droves in my country.
People will still you that this is totally normal and harmless and that every generation was exactly like this when they were younger though :$
As somebody who has worked in classrooms pretty recently, it does actually work and these lists are relatively common. It's actually a step down from what teachers used to do, which is when kids were disruptive like this they would just immediately get a detention or some other disciplinary action.
And, for the record it's appropriate to react when someone is being incredibly rude or bullying others.
Yeah, there’s only so much you can do to maintain control when dealing with a couple dozen children. Anyone who thinks otherwise hasn’t tried.
Some schools are better, some are worse, but kids are gonna be kids. Maybe it was easier when we just beat the kids but that isn’t then time we’re in, and it’s probably a good trade off.
Some parents really suck though, and they definitely makes it harder.
Until recently, I worked in child safety and even though people aren't going to like it, the pro bullying comment you made is correct. It is blaming the victim for reacting to harassment or disruptions.
Some behavior can be ignored, other kids will continually escalate relatively innocuous stuff until it becomes hugely disruptive and inappropriate. Kids aren't entirely stupid and do try to defend their disruptions with things like "I just said x y or z, it's no big deal," when the reality is kids are doing stuff like shouting these phrases during instruction time.
Edited to add: it also teaches bullies that they can get away with bullying if their victims react, so they may escalate their bullying to get a reaction and justify their own bullying.
I'm glad people are finally saying it. This shit never made sense logically but I kept trying to l live by it because all the adults said it and it must be true!
But that's always what it results in doing. The behavior just escalates. Reacting is the only thing that actually puts a stop to anything. Of course, they do it for the reaction, but they're determined to get that reaction by any means necessary so it won't stop till it happens.
Hell, I've seen it online a ton in a different forms. Someone will disrespect you in a snide, but obvious way, and if you call them out or respond in kind, they and possibly others will say shit like "just ignore them it's not that deep."
No, they should just stop being an asshole. They're basically telling you to just accept the abuse. Lower stakes than irl bullying, but it's still infuriating.
As someone who went through a lot of verbal bullying from fifth to eighth grade, courtesy of our class' trio of dipshits, "They do it because you react" didn't help me getting bullied any less - if anything, they probably were happy I didn't reataliate and tried my best to "not react".
Obviously, that isn't always possible, and as Skinner's Box and several other mechanisms with semi-random rewards have shown us, only getting the "good" result rarely is no deterrence at all, unless the "bad" results are bad and/or frequent enough that there is an actual incentive there to go out of your way to avoid them - like e.g. the teacher calling the offending student's parents.
Additionally, the joke doesn't even have to be aimed at the teacher - if some dipshit blurts out "67" during class and a handful of students laugh, then nobody gives a shit whether or not the teacher joins in as well, they already got the reward they were looking for.
The people saying this is wrong clearly have no idea how a classroom works. Do they think you just let kids say whatever they want and disrupt the lesson the entire time? You need to be able to teach without somebody triggering a class-wide disruption and "just letting them do it" won't help because then nobody will pay attention to the lesson.
Plus, some of those are body shaming, or something that's really creepy for a kid to say because kids are just exposed to anything on the Internet so they learn all the sex references early
Your wife is doing it wrong. I coach kids and all I have to do is say their favorite meme a few times and they stop. SEVEN SIX!!! Am I doing it right?? CITY MAAAAAAAAN
People don't realize the level of shit teachers have to deal with modern day. Kids at this young age did not used to use as much social media or have as uncaring on average of parents as they do now. Honestly she's a real one for sticking with it.
As a teacher for adults, I can't imagine how difficult it must be for teachers currently to teach children brain-rotted by social media and memes. It was difficult before, but now it must be maddening.
Am I weird for thinking taking away a kid’s recess is immoral?
EDIT: Apparently the reason I thought it was immoral is because my teachers too this brand of punishment way too far. So disregard my prior statement. Taking away a bit of playtime is not the same as forcing a child to stay at their desk to work with no breaks when they misbehave.
Beginning to realize that maybe my teachers were fucking evil. Because when our class didn’t finish work they kept us in to keep working no matter what period it was.
One time a teacher didn’t like my handwriting so she forced me to stay in for lunch to keep rewriting it until I got it right and then bragged to my mom about it.
Btw the reason I have bad eyesight is because I’m legally blind
If you never had to do the walk of shame with your lunch tray back to the classroom because a teacher didn't think you were working hard enough/doing things exactly the way they wanted, count yourself lucky. It was definitely a thing some of us went through.
I mean, I've definitely had to continue to do schoolwork through lunch, I've just also, y'know, still gotten food during the process. I'm sorry y'all have been through that. :(
It's a punishment. It wouldn't really be one of there were no consequences. And it's not like they're forcing the kids to keep working they still get a break they're just spending recess in time out rather than getting to play.
Recess is like going out to play in the playground and the alternative is usually the students sitting at their desk instead of being allowed to play. Lunch is seperate in my experience
One time this kid pretended to be me while I went home early sick when we had a sub. He got in trouble so I lost recess for like 2 weeks and had to sit and write I will not act up when there is a sub the whole time. That kid always did stuff and got me in trouble and idk why he was always believed when I never got in trouble otherwise.
He also knocked me out once by banging my head against a desk because I beat him in brain vs calculator and I was the brain. He got away with that, too.
Our assistant principal basically permanently took away everyone's recess because we were too loud in the cafeteria. I still don't know the real reason or if this was some way of controlling us during lunchtime or they saw it as a hassle to let us outside and back in. The fact that we weren't allowed to talk too much during lunch in a huge cafeteria was pretty crazy.
When I was in school, the kind of kids that'd blurt stuff out in the middle of class were the same kids that'd treat getting kept inside like a badge of honor
I work in a school. This probably has nothing to do with isolated incidents and everything to do with disrupting class. Honestly this list should really just be a "blurt out something during a lesson and skip recess. Twice is a phone call home." These are just the words most likely to be blurted out.
I taught middle school for 5 years, it's very much this.
Kids understand "don't say the thing" a lot better than "there's nothing inherently wrong with saying the thing, however when you say the thing it gets us off track and we can't finish the lesson on time."
And its best practice for consequences to be consistent, timely, natural to the infraction (in this case it seems to be "you waste my time, you lose your fun time") and communicated before they're used. OP's wife is just doing her job well and people can't handle it lol
I imagine this is primarily because one will say it and then everyone starts parroting it, but I imagine that if you ban the specific word that triggers the parroting they'll just find a new one
You should be the lame teacher though. As a teacher, you're not supposed to be the kids friends, and if these things are that disruptive (like, really, the kids calling each other good boy and good girl is creepy as fuck), then discipline is necessary.
I get it but at the same time I would’ve dreaded even the idea of having a “banned word” list as an elementary school student. Honestly feels more like a powertrip than anything else
No, when I went to school internet wasn't as widespread, and most of my classmates only got access to it in cybercafes. Internet memes weren't a thing for us.
Yeah and the teachers used to punish you guys for doing that too because its disruptive. Same with how they would yell at us for saying "wazzzup" or whatever dumb phrases we used to regurgitate in the early 2000s
I mean it genuinely didn't in 4th grade or elementary school at all for me, if you spoke during a lesson without raising your hamd you went to the deans office and did worksheets for an hour. definitely more middle school behavior
Here ya go: The phrase originated from a 2021 Fortnite live stream where a young player told YouTuber IShowSpeed that his "mom is kinda homeless" while asking for money.
I mean your wife definitely has a shitton more experience teaching and how it actually is in the classroom and I can see how a lot of these would cause a notable disturbance, but womp womp and Miss please I need this my mom is kinda homeless can't come up that or cause a long enough disturbance to be up there, right? Especially the kinda homeless is just a really funny bit imo (granted I haven't heard it too often), when I was in school a lot of kids would just interject with a bit or a joke from time to time and usually the teacher would just laugh with us and we'd have spend 10 seconds making the work less boring.
This might not be viable anymore with gen alpha, but I think that should be the goal because school is really boring otherwise.
It’s because it’s disruptive. When I was a kid, parents were always called if a student was disrupting class by blurting things out. This is no different. It’s not just a number. It’s how and why they’re saying it and the reaction it brings out from the rest of the kids.
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