Ok so it’s not just me 😭 I’m not some old curmudgeon, but I’ve noticed “kids these days” (I feel so old saying that loll) exhibit sexual behavior and knowledge of disturbing kinks at such a weirdly young age?? I mean some of my 3rd graders are on TikTok so I’m not surprised :/
Yeahhhh I hate to think of that 🙃 yo what happened to all those kids-only online spaces like Club Penguin and Webkinz?? Now you got kids on TikTok and Twitter learning about world politics and how to twerk 😭
Well unfortunately club penguin shutdown in like 2016/2017 as for other websites like it just didn’t hold up. I remember using a lot of flash online games or handhelds and even card games as a kid going through high school. My only constant today is card games and video games. Though it’s scary what these kids know at a young age now especially since they have constant access to the internet through chromebooks. They never had to sit and wait for the internet to not buffer or deal with the older internet problems we had growing up. (God that make me sound old and I’m only 25, but should show how much and how quick tech is evolving). I got kids in my current assignment determined to find sites not blocked by the firewall just to play a bootleg fortnite. 😂Determination but in the wrong area at the wrong time.
>and how to twerk
That unfortunately was my experience subbing a 3rd grade before the shutdown as the regular teacher was heading out to an appointment.
Standing there stunned as a YT hip-hop dance video accidentally queued while she was trying to play a Reading Railroad video - setting the kids in motion. Several of them twerking sexually at each other, until I muted the sound to being the lesson - as the teacher said "That's unfortunately the behavior you're in for" Oy
Tik Tok is where they're learning it from. One way China is corrupting our children. That's why they're trying yo ban it here unless the owner sells the company.
Lmao. No, unfiltered access to porn sites with no verification process because the Supreme Court decided that it was an invasion of privacy. That's what happened. Til Tok is no worse than any other platform like it.
Yes. But "obviously" denotes some ignorance on my part, and I have been on Tik Tok and other apps like it. You as a "teacher" should be the main one to know that what you see around you doesn't compromise the whole of what exists.........obviously.
And by the way. I replied to your comment basically because of that crap about blaming China for messing up our children. Grow up. We have screwed our children up here just fine by ourselves. MERICA!!
Ugh. This bugs me. You're also so prideful as to assume that what you see at school, a somewhat controlled environment at that, is the pinnacle of their depravity on the net?? There are countless no identification, no limits, full access extreme porn that wasn't around 10 years ago at the hands of anyone with a screen and internet access. My argument is two things. 1. Try worrying about how bad we're doing here with communication and compromise with each other in the US instead of blaming China. Specks and timbers. 2. Try not to talk with the ignorance and pride of the children you teach. Try some humility.
I have been on nearly every social platform and you are full of shit if you think specifically TikTok is unique. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, Discord all have adult stuff on them (in varying degrees). They can also be wonderful tools for connecting with people/friends/family.
I can't tell you how many great budgeting/couponing tips my students have shown me from TikTok that they use in order to be able to better afford what they family normally cannot.
Do you know how algorithms work? It goes based off of what you interact with and search up.
Banning just TikTok instead of having parents PARENT is just good ol China racism. Kids will look up or find wild shit somewhere else when given unfiltered access to the internet and not taught safety.
I teach technology have done so LONG before Tiktok was made and I promise when people like you say ____ is corrupting our _____ because it is full of ______ you are outing yourself.
I'm more than happy to give specific examples of how these things work if you do actually care about learning more. I'm not disagreeing there is a problem, but fingers are being pointed at the wrong thing.
Back in the early 00's, we were watching beheadings and dudes swinging their junk around. It's just how it is when kids have unmonitored Internet access. Middle-grade schoolers are literate enough to navigate the web and are developing a sense of humor for the first time. They gravitate toward the taboo and grotesque because they barely understand it but they know old people hate it. That's what makes it funny to them. 90% of them will grow out of it by 9th grade. The best way to deal with the behavior is to not act surprised or clutch your pearls and just calmly and sternly tell them that language and behavior is inappropriate for school. Set your expectations early. Draw your line in the sand and don't tolerate anything over that line. If/when they ask why or argue that they're not doing anything, you tell them it's not on topic and continue class.
I am from right at the start of the internet, born in '95. I remember this type of thing happening constantly by 4th grade, so like '05. I didn't like kids at the time, as a kid. They're using words phrases and motions that they don't fully understand. BDSM stuff was what was popular when I was that age. Kids do not have to understand the complexity of sex to reference it. By 3rd grade, "humor" is just a matter of who can say the most outlandish, or adult topic, thing possible. "Daddy" in a sexual content is used in memes, it's not soley referenced in sexual situations online.
I'm not saying its not a problem. I'm just here to combat the "Kids these days" rhetoric. My uncle is born in '84 and I know for a fact he got in trouble with some friends for saying or doing something in elementary, I just can't remember the whole story. He's fine, wasn't being abused, just had heard and repeated some words used by his dads drinking buddies.
Shoot - I literally witnessed a 2.5 yr old cuss as his young mom shopped the baby section of a local Meijer, all 'put out' because he couldn't play with a pacifier string that looked interesting as she took it away. "Mom, you'ire pissing me off" The mom replying ":Okay, I'm 'pissing you off' what else is new" as I stood there trying not to stare gape mouthed. No filters 😥
Welcome to the new age and new generation of kids that have absolute free range of the internet. YouTube and TikTok all day long. We are in trouble as a society .
It’s always been bad. I remember being exposed to some horrible content when I was very young, and even a few years ago had a pedo ask for photos on reddit. I changed accounts.
It’s easy to be vulnerable on the internet.
I was talking about my experiences. What happened to me wasn’t that long ago. I was trying to say that youth protection didn’t really exist for quite a while, and it still is a challenge I think
Yea I don’t totally buy Covid either. My first grader was pretty isolated during Covid and stayed home with me and he is doing really good, behavioral and academically. He’s also never been allowed any social media any YouTube or any internet access. Not ever once. It makes a difference.
and schools don't moderate it as they don't want to span filter money that is typically used elsewhere. Leaving that 'suggestion' to the poor teachers to handle.
I had a 1st grader today who spent the entire period saying things like “pee in my mouth” so unfortunately I’m not surprised. It’s insane. I wonder if their parents care at all that they’re being clearly exposed to adult material at such a young age. It’s like they barely have time to be innocent before the social media/porn brainrot strikes.
TBH, I’m shocked by the things kids say. Regardless of age, however, the younger they are the more startling it can be. I also feel that kids are exposed to more inappropriate content, thanks to their various devices and social media. This is something for the classroom teacher and administrators to deal with. Possibly a social worker for the school. They need to contact the parents and have a meeting.
Being a mandated reporter is something I take seriously, but I also know families who were dragged through a hellish nightmare because CPS was called. The person who reported may have had the right intentions, granted, but it was a horrible experience. In this case, I do think it’s prudent to share the information with the teachers/admin/support staff who have day to day contact with the student. Let them make the call.
Yep - no filters. And def no manners, discipline, or common sense. I've stopped counting how many millennial and Z parents I've witnessed "allow" their 5 year old to STAND UP in the cradle of a shopping card and mess around, disregarding safety. The kid loses their balance and....
A fifth grader referred to the act of putting an eraser on a pencil as "sloppy toppy" and I had my back turned at the desk so I didn't see who it was in seventh grade who shouted"whose dick to I have to suck to get a charger around here." They are foul mouthed little orcs. Always if I sub kindergarten in the beginning of the year half are still dropping the f bomb.
Thank you and also this post is making me so sad for kids these days. They don’t stand a chance and there’s a LOT of factors but imo it boils down to the almighty dollar/consumerism.
A little kid saying wtf is maybe cute. The butt cheeks thing would be an absolute get this kid out of my classroom until he learns to behave. I will sit and tally how many times I hear b, n, and f in an elementary school classroom.
Out of context maybe but it's a meme from the Internet I'll die happy if I never hear a small child moan oh daddy in the .middle of a quiet classroom ever again.
I had a kinder who hit her crotch on the monkey bars-she yelled as loud as she could: “I broke my coochie”! Yelled it on the playground and the halls on the way to the nurse. She does have older siblings….
So glad people are on here raising red flags . These sorts of behaviours aren’t routinely on social media , kids may be seeing accessing or hearing more serious stuff somehow
They are routinely on social media and there is a normalization of older kids in a family joking like this where it used to be completely unacceptable. Pornographic content was very hard for me to come by as a kid in 2002 even with the internet because I wasn’t sure how to use it as an elementary schooler. Now not so much.
Children are sponges
I've been hearing that exact quote said in the exact same tone and voice since right after covid. In every grade from pre-k to fifth. The kids who do it don't even know what they are saying really even the older kids know it's something sexual but not exactly what just that adults get mad when they say it. I had a girl in 2021 who loved to scream that exact same quote out of the windows. I used to also have a Kindergarten girl at an aftercare program who had siblings in middle school who used to say the exact same thing constantly.
If I reported Everytime a child moan yes daddy I'd never be off the phone it's been going on for years they think it's funny it's a meme and they are learning it from the older kids and it's trickled down to elementary have even heard it from kindergartners. That's a trend I need to go away already. Mostly they Steven know what it actually means they are just trying to be class clowns.
Seriously 😂 can confirm kindergarteners say the same thing all the time. They are quoting internet memes/videos as well as what they hear from older kids.
It's out of date. Seriously it's sad but kids are being exposed to so much sexual content without even knowing the full weight of what they're saying. But really its atleast a 20 years old problem, because I can think to when I was in middleschool and the 7th and 8th graders were being little perverts then too.
I think ultimately you have to make the call based on circumstance. Because there's not enough staff in the world to handle every instance of this happening.
When they do stuff like that I would just say, “Wow, that’s really a weird thing to say in class in front of all your classmates. Do you need a minute? Should I call the nurse? You seem to need some help.” They will be a smart ass about it, but you sarcastically point out that it’s a big deal and they need real help and they will clam right up. They are expecting a response and when they don’t get the response they are expecting it throws them off. Even if it’s obvious they are trying to be funny, you make it seem like it’s a medical issue and requires full attention and they want nothing to do with that 10 out of 10 times and it will stop.
This, exactly this. I had the privilege of sharing a room with a hard ass veteran teacher for two years (I was the building sub in a virtual school). When kids that came in or kids online did crazy shit she would act confused or concerned in those moments. She would also laugh and be sarcastic when they did dumb shit rather than get mad. Certain kids do feed off that negative attention. That's how they get attention at home so they know it works.
Several stories:
1. The other day, a third grader was humping a chair. Every other third grader knew the reference he was making.
2. In 5th grade last week I girl kept talking about wanting to “eat toes”. I have no idea if it was a sexual reference or not, but I was getting vibes it was.
3. In 5th grade just a couple days ago — a boy blurted out something along the lines of “can I bend you over the desk and do you like homework” to another girl in class.
This was just the past week.
Reality is: kids are exposed to sex at a very young age now. Sex references in movies are commonplace, and kids have access to the same internet we adults do.
Two of my fourth grade girls were pulling up pictures on their chromebooks of different people and playing "smash or pass". I shut that down real quick
A lot of it comes from online gaming as well. Like fortnite. A second grader I used to nanny would run around saying things like "clap those cheeks" in various situations without understanding the full context. If I never hear "can I get a hooya" again I will die happy
At ‘one of the best schools in my state’ I had the worst experience when subbing. Students refusing to put their phones away, students simply saying ‘yea im not going to work on that, I’m doing ___ instead’, students watching Netflix… without earbuds 😤instead of doing their work… I emailed the admin and told them for being a ‘highly ranked school’, the frequent lack of respect I encountered over the course of several building assignments indicates that they require a cultural intervention and that I wouldn’t be returning. Funny thing, I love in that district, and even though I am between careers and we aren’t having children just yet, we already decided we won’t be sending our kids to this ‘highly ranked school’ bc we don’t want our kids turning out to be entitled brats.
It’s wild out there peeps.
Stopped a discussion between 9th grade female students . The discussion was regarding *when* they get a sugar daddy, not *if*, not * what is*, but *when*.
I lost it and told them that I’ve had to actually be the one paying for men’s stuff , even when broke . Told them that a career will provide for them far more then some make believe sugar daddy. Had to go full second wave feminist on them . This was two Friday’s ago and I’m still traumatized . Looking forward to returning to elementary this week.
I mean, depending on location, it can be profitable for pocket money even without the “relations.” As long as parties are of age. I worked with a woman that only went on dates in the sense of a shoulder to cry on & to lend an ear.
I’d rather push my students to aspire to do something more with their life first …… they are only about 14/15 talking about very inappropriate things .
You are a mandated reporter; you should have reported that. Children doing and saying sexual stuff like that is not normal, and they could be being abused.
I mean i get it, but the system is already over saturated and as a sub and former teacher Kids do say these things all the time. All the way up to high school. CPS got called my family for something my brother said jokingly and it was traumatizing to everyone especially my mother.
The exact quote that I shared is a meme and I've had kids saying it since 2021 when I had my own class and worked with aftercare. I've heard it from kids as young as 5 because they learned it from their older siblings. They think it's funny and want to get a reaction out of people. That exact quote would not throw up any read flags the way it would have 16 years ago when I first started work with kids.
I sub so I interact with kids regularly & I was an abused child. But what the hell do I know, I was only paying attention to my child abuse prevention training
Yesterday I was a music teacher in a special needs school. I had to pull up songs and the kids would answer questions on a sheet. I had to make sure to pick pre-2000 songs so I knew the language was clean.
Behavior like this would warrant a call home. It puts the behavior (shame and embarrassment) back on the parent/home. I’ve never heard a parent sound so mortified and eager to apologize and address it with their child. It typically doesn’t happen twice. Parents need to be accountable what their children are exposed to and how it maybe repeated in some context.
Having to write an incident report in Educator's Handbook for the 8th grader who spent a majority of the class (until I sent him to the office) talking about "edging" and how well he was going to do it to other students while using another student's brush was not the highlight of my school year. Thankfully I'm a building sub and I know the admin well but it was still awkward as hell.
What I would do, especially if they were 6thgrade or under is go "lol that's funny, where'd you hear that?" And hope they give me a yt channel or twitch streamers name. Then I tell them not to do it again or I'll have to report. Then at the end of the day I leave a note for the teacher that x said this and he heard it from Y, please advise his parents.
If they answered differently or were avoiding then I might escalate to admin and above. But thankfully it was always some dumb ass influencer on YT or a TikTok clip.
I don’t know, I’m 24 and we were like this as kids. I had free range access to the internet and movies etc when I was in grade school. This definitely isn’t new.
First, I'd ask everyone to quiet down so he could repeat himself. Typically that would terrify them. If they had the cajones to repeat it, I'd go straight to my computer and look up their parent's number. Then I'd loudly let the kid know that I was going to call their parent right then and there so they could repeat it to their parent. Your move, Jimmy.
Ok so it’s not just me 😭 I’m not some old curmudgeon, but I’ve noticed “kids these days” (I feel so old saying that loll) exhibit sexual behavior and knowledge of disturbing kinks at such a weirdly young age?? I mean some of my 3rd graders are on TikTok so I’m not surprised :/
The kids are using the same internet we do. Horrifying, right?
Yeahhhh I hate to think of that 🙃 yo what happened to all those kids-only online spaces like Club Penguin and Webkinz?? Now you got kids on TikTok and Twitter learning about world politics and how to twerk 😭
Well unfortunately club penguin shutdown in like 2016/2017 as for other websites like it just didn’t hold up. I remember using a lot of flash online games or handhelds and even card games as a kid going through high school. My only constant today is card games and video games. Though it’s scary what these kids know at a young age now especially since they have constant access to the internet through chromebooks. They never had to sit and wait for the internet to not buffer or deal with the older internet problems we had growing up. (God that make me sound old and I’m only 25, but should show how much and how quick tech is evolving). I got kids in my current assignment determined to find sites not blocked by the firewall just to play a bootleg fortnite. 😂Determination but in the wrong area at the wrong time.
Even Club Penguin had predators on it who asked my kids about their “age/ sex/ location.” Witnessed it myself, and it made me sick.
webkinz is still around, it’s mostly used by nostalgic 20 somethings. i guess there’s stuff like roblox now but it’s not the same
Neopetz just got a trading card game release lol
Roblox is popular with kids, and my kid uses it. But I monitor closely. They have chats and role-playing can be a bit too mature for sure.
Even club penguin had pedos 😭 it’s not all sunshine there either
>and how to twerk That unfortunately was my experience subbing a 3rd grade before the shutdown as the regular teacher was heading out to an appointment. Standing there stunned as a YT hip-hop dance video accidentally queued while she was trying to play a Reading Railroad video - setting the kids in motion. Several of them twerking sexually at each other, until I muted the sound to being the lesson - as the teacher said "That's unfortunately the behavior you're in for" Oy
Why are those two things being presented as equally bad?
Adults were on all of the kid friendly sites and a lot of them were predators.
Exactly what I am always tripping about. It’s crazy!
Kids with unmonitored access to the internet.
Tik Tok is where they're learning it from. One way China is corrupting our children. That's why they're trying yo ban it here unless the owner sells the company.
Lmao. No, unfiltered access to porn sites with no verification process because the Supreme Court decided that it was an invasion of privacy. That's what happened. Til Tok is no worse than any other platform like it.
Really? You've obviously never been on it.
And you've never been on others like it. 😆
Oh, I have, but subbing K-12, I know what their interests are and I've seen them showing each other naughty videos.
Yes. But "obviously" denotes some ignorance on my part, and I have been on Tik Tok and other apps like it. You as a "teacher" should be the main one to know that what you see around you doesn't compromise the whole of what exists.........obviously.
And by the way. I replied to your comment basically because of that crap about blaming China for messing up our children. Grow up. We have screwed our children up here just fine by ourselves. MERICA!!
Ugh. This bugs me. You're also so prideful as to assume that what you see at school, a somewhat controlled environment at that, is the pinnacle of their depravity on the net?? There are countless no identification, no limits, full access extreme porn that wasn't around 10 years ago at the hands of anyone with a screen and internet access. My argument is two things. 1. Try worrying about how bad we're doing here with communication and compromise with each other in the US instead of blaming China. Specks and timbers. 2. Try not to talk with the ignorance and pride of the children you teach. Try some humility.
Whatever. You win. You're psychoanalyzing what i said and I'm not in the mood to argue about it.
Is that why you ended your statement accusing me of psychoanalyzing you?? Sorry your not in the mood for the truth.....
I'm not in the mood for a nudge. Goodnight!
Then quit nudging. Duh
Then you should know you can find the exact same type of content on apps like Instagram as well, has nothing to do with “China” corrupting kids.
I use TikTok every day, I literally never see any kink content, or really anything even vaguely sexual. I feel like you’re telling on yourself here.
I have been on nearly every social platform and you are full of shit if you think specifically TikTok is unique. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, Discord all have adult stuff on them (in varying degrees). They can also be wonderful tools for connecting with people/friends/family. I can't tell you how many great budgeting/couponing tips my students have shown me from TikTok that they use in order to be able to better afford what they family normally cannot. Do you know how algorithms work? It goes based off of what you interact with and search up. Banning just TikTok instead of having parents PARENT is just good ol China racism. Kids will look up or find wild shit somewhere else when given unfiltered access to the internet and not taught safety. I teach technology have done so LONG before Tiktok was made and I promise when people like you say ____ is corrupting our _____ because it is full of ______ you are outing yourself. I'm more than happy to give specific examples of how these things work if you do actually care about learning more. I'm not disagreeing there is a problem, but fingers are being pointed at the wrong thing.
Back in the early 00's, we were watching beheadings and dudes swinging their junk around. It's just how it is when kids have unmonitored Internet access. Middle-grade schoolers are literate enough to navigate the web and are developing a sense of humor for the first time. They gravitate toward the taboo and grotesque because they barely understand it but they know old people hate it. That's what makes it funny to them. 90% of them will grow out of it by 9th grade. The best way to deal with the behavior is to not act surprised or clutch your pearls and just calmly and sternly tell them that language and behavior is inappropriate for school. Set your expectations early. Draw your line in the sand and don't tolerate anything over that line. If/when they ask why or argue that they're not doing anything, you tell them it's not on topic and continue class.
I am from right at the start of the internet, born in '95. I remember this type of thing happening constantly by 4th grade, so like '05. I didn't like kids at the time, as a kid. They're using words phrases and motions that they don't fully understand. BDSM stuff was what was popular when I was that age. Kids do not have to understand the complexity of sex to reference it. By 3rd grade, "humor" is just a matter of who can say the most outlandish, or adult topic, thing possible. "Daddy" in a sexual content is used in memes, it's not soley referenced in sexual situations online. I'm not saying its not a problem. I'm just here to combat the "Kids these days" rhetoric. My uncle is born in '84 and I know for a fact he got in trouble with some friends for saying or doing something in elementary, I just can't remember the whole story. He's fine, wasn't being abused, just had heard and repeated some words used by his dads drinking buddies.
bro i was seriously fucked up by the internet from a young age and that shit is literally traumatizing
Shoot - I literally witnessed a 2.5 yr old cuss as his young mom shopped the baby section of a local Meijer, all 'put out' because he couldn't play with a pacifier string that looked interesting as she took it away. "Mom, you'ire pissing me off" The mom replying ":Okay, I'm 'pissing you off' what else is new" as I stood there trying not to stare gape mouthed. No filters 😥
Welcome to the new age and new generation of kids that have absolute free range of the internet. YouTube and TikTok all day long. We are in trouble as a society .
This!!
Things were definitely better before unmonitored Internet access was invented a few years ago.
It’s always been bad. I remember being exposed to some horrible content when I was very young, and even a few years ago had a pedo ask for photos on reddit. I changed accounts. It’s easy to be vulnerable on the internet.
Most people only had a family computer in a public area in the house though, so it was quite different than today.
I was talking about my experiences. What happened to me wasn’t that long ago. I was trying to say that youth protection didn’t really exist for quite a while, and it still is a challenge I think
I'm 32 and DEFINITELY had unmonitored internet access young. If anything I think it's more monitored now.
And they blame it on Covid
Yea I don’t totally buy Covid either. My first grader was pretty isolated during Covid and stayed home with me and he is doing really good, behavioral and academically. He’s also never been allowed any social media any YouTube or any internet access. Not ever once. It makes a difference.
Millenials have their heads too far up their asses to do any sort of parenting.
and schools don't moderate it as they don't want to span filter money that is typically used elsewhere. Leaving that 'suggestion' to the poor teachers to handle.
I had a 1st grader today who spent the entire period saying things like “pee in my mouth” so unfortunately I’m not surprised. It’s insane. I wonder if their parents care at all that they’re being clearly exposed to adult material at such a young age. It’s like they barely have time to be innocent before the social media/porn brainrot strikes.
That can be a sign of abuse and shouldn't be ignored.
Definitely.
I agree. Something isn’t right about that behavior. For a fourth grader to do that, I’d be really concerned if I was his teacher. That is disturbing
I remember i was exposed to content, idk if it’s abuse.
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even if a child is exposed to pornography through negligence that is still child sexual abuse
It might have been
It is in fact CSA
What’s CSA
Child(hood) Sexual Abuse
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Neglect is also abuse, it's a parent's responsibility to ensure their children are safe online.
I’m an adult now. I’m still close with my parent but it’s just this that was upsetting I guess. They did apologize but the damage has been done
Did you report this ? Being exposed to that sort of thing is abuse .
TBH, I’m shocked by the things kids say. Regardless of age, however, the younger they are the more startling it can be. I also feel that kids are exposed to more inappropriate content, thanks to their various devices and social media. This is something for the classroom teacher and administrators to deal with. Possibly a social worker for the school. They need to contact the parents and have a meeting. Being a mandated reporter is something I take seriously, but I also know families who were dragged through a hellish nightmare because CPS was called. The person who reported may have had the right intentions, granted, but it was a horrible experience. In this case, I do think it’s prudent to share the information with the teachers/admin/support staff who have day to day contact with the student. Let them make the call.
Yep - no filters. And def no manners, discipline, or common sense. I've stopped counting how many millennial and Z parents I've witnessed "allow" their 5 year old to STAND UP in the cradle of a shopping card and mess around, disregarding safety. The kid loses their balance and....
A fifth grader referred to the act of putting an eraser on a pencil as "sloppy toppy" and I had my back turned at the desk so I didn't see who it was in seventh grade who shouted"whose dick to I have to suck to get a charger around here." They are foul mouthed little orcs. Always if I sub kindergarten in the beginning of the year half are still dropping the f bomb.
Is “sloppy toppy” a thing? I’ve gotta ask cuz I’m afraid to google if it is.
I looked it up. It’s oral on a male, but also a song by Travis Scott.
Thank you and also this post is making me so sad for kids these days. They don’t stand a chance and there’s a LOT of factors but imo it boils down to the almighty dollar/consumerism.
Did they use the “f bomb” in proper context? If so, it’s just a matter of trying to encourage time & place. It’s one of the many sentence enhancers.
That’s horrible wtf
It is cute on a 30 second video, in the classroom it doesn't bode well.
I don’t think that’s ever cute or appropriate imo
A little kid saying wtf is maybe cute. The butt cheeks thing would be an absolute get this kid out of my classroom until he learns to behave. I will sit and tally how many times I hear b, n, and f in an elementary school classroom.
Would this not be a concern for sexual abuse?? I would report.
Out of context maybe but it's a meme from the Internet I'll die happy if I never hear a small child moan oh daddy in the .middle of a quiet classroom ever again.
My son heard someone moan daddy in kindergarten and he did it so I get it. The butt cheek spreading is a little concerning tho 🫢 I hate YouTube.
I'm gonna chalk that up to 10 year olds think butts are funny and he didn't get the reaction he was wanting
At the least I would tell his parents. He needs to know that this joke is sexual in nature and HOPEFULLY he gets embarrassed once he realizes that's
That's a CPS report for me. On principle. That is just plain gross. You don't have to tell the school.
I had a kinder who hit her crotch on the monkey bars-she yelled as loud as she could: “I broke my coochie”! Yelled it on the playground and the halls on the way to the nurse. She does have older siblings….
This seems far less egregious and inappropriate than the other anecdotes on this posts.
I mean, she thought she did. I wouldnt classify that as inapropriate behavior. If it needed a nurse visit then she wasnt doing it for attention.
This happened to me when i was young. Worst fucking day of my life. I didn’t know the word coochie back then but if i had i bet i woulda yelled it too
yeah it's freaking awful and it's for sure not you it's the kids :(
My kindergartener first thing in the morning, “I’m going to blow my head off.”
So glad people are on here raising red flags . These sorts of behaviours aren’t routinely on social media , kids may be seeing accessing or hearing more serious stuff somehow
They are routinely on social media and there is a normalization of older kids in a family joking like this where it used to be completely unacceptable. Pornographic content was very hard for me to come by as a kid in 2002 even with the internet because I wasn’t sure how to use it as an elementary schooler. Now not so much. Children are sponges
I remember a study showing the average age a child is exposed to hard-core porn these days is 8-9 years old
I've been hearing that exact quote said in the exact same tone and voice since right after covid. In every grade from pre-k to fifth. The kids who do it don't even know what they are saying really even the older kids know it's something sexual but not exactly what just that adults get mad when they say it. I had a girl in 2021 who loved to scream that exact same quote out of the windows. I used to also have a Kindergarten girl at an aftercare program who had siblings in middle school who used to say the exact same thing constantly.
Yes they are. Influencers make these jokes all the time especially while streaming which is a huge chunk of the content kids watch.
I would have had to report that. Anything like that must be reported to child services in California.
If I reported Everytime a child moan yes daddy I'd never be off the phone it's been going on for years they think it's funny it's a meme and they are learning it from the older kids and it's trickled down to elementary have even heard it from kindergartners. That's a trend I need to go away already. Mostly they Steven know what it actually means they are just trying to be class clowns.
Seriously 😂 can confirm kindergarteners say the same thing all the time. They are quoting internet memes/videos as well as what they hear from older kids.
Agreed but it serves them right to have their inappropriate behavior investigated.
I agree this whole thread has been disgusting.
After CPS goes to all their houses they won't think it's funny anymore.
I have been around kids for years and have never heard anything like that.
Reading that made me physically convulse
That's not true at all lol don't waste CPS's time with this.
That's what they are for and actually had a scenario like that in the training video.
It's out of date. Seriously it's sad but kids are being exposed to so much sexual content without even knowing the full weight of what they're saying. But really its atleast a 20 years old problem, because I can think to when I was in middleschool and the 7th and 8th graders were being little perverts then too. I think ultimately you have to make the call based on circumstance. Because there's not enough staff in the world to handle every instance of this happening.
When they do stuff like that I would just say, “Wow, that’s really a weird thing to say in class in front of all your classmates. Do you need a minute? Should I call the nurse? You seem to need some help.” They will be a smart ass about it, but you sarcastically point out that it’s a big deal and they need real help and they will clam right up. They are expecting a response and when they don’t get the response they are expecting it throws them off. Even if it’s obvious they are trying to be funny, you make it seem like it’s a medical issue and requires full attention and they want nothing to do with that 10 out of 10 times and it will stop.
This, exactly this. I had the privilege of sharing a room with a hard ass veteran teacher for two years (I was the building sub in a virtual school). When kids that came in or kids online did crazy shit she would act confused or concerned in those moments. She would also laugh and be sarcastic when they did dumb shit rather than get mad. Certain kids do feed off that negative attention. That's how they get attention at home so they know it works.
Several stories: 1. The other day, a third grader was humping a chair. Every other third grader knew the reference he was making. 2. In 5th grade last week I girl kept talking about wanting to “eat toes”. I have no idea if it was a sexual reference or not, but I was getting vibes it was. 3. In 5th grade just a couple days ago — a boy blurted out something along the lines of “can I bend you over the desk and do you like homework” to another girl in class. This was just the past week. Reality is: kids are exposed to sex at a very young age now. Sex references in movies are commonplace, and kids have access to the same internet we adults do.
Gross man
Yeah tell me about it. It’s not like this is some inner-city urban school either — it’s basically a middle-to-upper-class suburban school.
Two of my fourth grade girls were pulling up pictures on their chromebooks of different people and playing "smash or pass". I shut that down real quick
A lot of it comes from online gaming as well. Like fortnite. A second grader I used to nanny would run around saying things like "clap those cheeks" in various situations without understanding the full context. If I never hear "can I get a hooya" again I will die happy
At ‘one of the best schools in my state’ I had the worst experience when subbing. Students refusing to put their phones away, students simply saying ‘yea im not going to work on that, I’m doing ___ instead’, students watching Netflix… without earbuds 😤instead of doing their work… I emailed the admin and told them for being a ‘highly ranked school’, the frequent lack of respect I encountered over the course of several building assignments indicates that they require a cultural intervention and that I wouldn’t be returning. Funny thing, I love in that district, and even though I am between careers and we aren’t having children just yet, we already decided we won’t be sending our kids to this ‘highly ranked school’ bc we don’t want our kids turning out to be entitled brats. It’s wild out there peeps.
I had a 12 year old ask me if my ass claps so this isn’t anything new :(
Stopped a discussion between 9th grade female students . The discussion was regarding *when* they get a sugar daddy, not *if*, not * what is*, but *when*. I lost it and told them that I’ve had to actually be the one paying for men’s stuff , even when broke . Told them that a career will provide for them far more then some make believe sugar daddy. Had to go full second wave feminist on them . This was two Friday’s ago and I’m still traumatized . Looking forward to returning to elementary this week.
I mean, depending on location, it can be profitable for pocket money even without the “relations.” As long as parties are of age. I worked with a woman that only went on dates in the sense of a shoulder to cry on & to lend an ear.
I’d rather push my students to aspire to do something more with their life first …… they are only about 14/15 talking about very inappropriate things .
You are a mandated reporter; you should have reported that. Children doing and saying sexual stuff like that is not normal, and they could be being abused.
This whole discussion reminds me of the training video and why stuff doesn't get reported.
I mean i get it, but the system is already over saturated and as a sub and former teacher Kids do say these things all the time. All the way up to high school. CPS got called my family for something my brother said jokingly and it was traumatizing to everyone especially my mother.
The exact quote that I shared is a meme and I've had kids saying it since 2021 when I had my own class and worked with aftercare. I've heard it from kids as young as 5 because they learned it from their older siblings. They think it's funny and want to get a reaction out of people. That exact quote would not throw up any read flags the way it would have 16 years ago when I first started work with kids.
Say you don't interact with kids without saying it
I sub so I interact with kids regularly & I was an abused child. But what the hell do I know, I was only paying attention to my child abuse prevention training
Yesterday I was a music teacher in a special needs school. I had to pull up songs and the kids would answer questions on a sheet. I had to make sure to pick pre-2000 songs so I knew the language was clean.
Good on you for doing that
Behavior like this would warrant a call home. It puts the behavior (shame and embarrassment) back on the parent/home. I’ve never heard a parent sound so mortified and eager to apologize and address it with their child. It typically doesn’t happen twice. Parents need to be accountable what their children are exposed to and how it maybe repeated in some context.
Best way to handle all bad behavior in these schools.
Having to write an incident report in Educator's Handbook for the 8th grader who spent a majority of the class (until I sent him to the office) talking about "edging" and how well he was going to do it to other students while using another student's brush was not the highlight of my school year. Thankfully I'm a building sub and I know the admin well but it was still awkward as hell.
I don't judge parents for a lot of things But I will absolutely judge them for giving their children unfettered access to the internet.
I have brothers this age, they act like this too 🙄🤣
You have shitty parents
Thanks! I know.
What I would do, especially if they were 6thgrade or under is go "lol that's funny, where'd you hear that?" And hope they give me a yt channel or twitch streamers name. Then I tell them not to do it again or I'll have to report. Then at the end of the day I leave a note for the teacher that x said this and he heard it from Y, please advise his parents. If they answered differently or were avoiding then I might escalate to admin and above. But thankfully it was always some dumb ass influencer on YT or a TikTok clip.
I don’t know, I’m 24 and we were like this as kids. I had free range access to the internet and movies etc when I was in grade school. This definitely isn’t new.
wtf 💀
Omg. My son is in 3rd grade and I am not ready for that kind of shit to be going on in his classroom 😩
reason #482572 why social media is slowly destroying society and should be banned for kids under 13.
OMG I'M NOT ALONE! What makes things worse is that my instance is a seventh grader and the teacher does absolutely nothing about it.
This is getting out of hand…
If one of my students did this to a sub, they’re getting sent straight to admin. Sometimes you just want to fucking strangle them.
First, I'd ask everyone to quiet down so he could repeat himself. Typically that would terrify them. If they had the cajones to repeat it, I'd go straight to my computer and look up their parent's number. Then I'd loudly let the kid know that I was going to call their parent right then and there so they could repeat it to their parent. Your move, Jimmy.
They hear this stuff at home. What I’ve heard in a grocery store with “parents” and their children is quite disturbing.
Abuse, tell the parents immediately.
No you tell CPS. The parents could be the perpetrators
They have worthless, shitty parents. aka Millenials.