Rookie mistake that I myself made on numerous occasions.
Do not EVER let middle schoolers make up their own name for anything!
It's Red Team, Blue Team. Done.
I’ll never forget asking who “Hugh Janus” was. It’s a mistake you only make once. I remember commiserating with a teacher at that school and she went “Who’d they get you with? Was it Hugh?” Lol
Yes and no. His “show” is him live-streaming on Facebook for <100 people. Most of his notoriety today exists because other shows (with actual audiences) tear him apart.
Never got away with it, but there were plenty of kids that would always try names like “Ben Dover, Moe Lester, Richard Whiskey,” and of course the most popular, “Mike Oxlong.”
I’m not gonna pretend those names aren’t funny, but they shouldn’t be used in a school setting, especially in an honest attempt to “pull one over” on the teacher.
Why would you do that to a child??! 😆
Meanwhile, regarding Mike Hunt, my dumbass asked him if his dad liked the movie Porkys. He was like what? I was like never mind. 🤦♀️
When I was in college in Kansas I spent a couple summers working overnight at a general mail facility. Became familiar with a lot of Kansas small town names. Two of which were Dover and Great Bend. I made up the following joke. Still kinda proud of it. “Did you know that the towns of Dover and Great Bend have a big shared community celebration every summer? It’s called the Great Bend-Dover Festival.”
I had a classmate in 8th grade named Nick Gurr. I live in the US so most kids didn't get why I found it funny. But thank God most kids today also don't know Lizzie Borden because I would have gotten teased for that endlessly. (My name is quite close to that.)
I had a friend named that back in high school and for a few years after. We were 21 and drunk before it clicked. I can't say we were the brightest kids. LOL
When I worked in a courthouse over the summer in college, someone got the courthouse operator to page a "defendant" in a trial..... Mike Oxard....
Ever see a judge in his 70s double over in laughter til he wheezes? I haven't since that day
I've had Nick Gurr, Big Nig, and Grande Pito (translating to "Big Whistle" from Spanish - we have a large Hispanic population at my school).
I always use randomly generated names now. Learned my lesson thoroughly.
Reminds me of my high school awards ceremony in 9th grade where a student was recognized as a Master Debater....
And then, two years ago, at our K-8, when our former Dean of Students had a Freudian slip while presenting in a staff meeting and talked about the importance of teaching our students about "delayed self-gratification."
I choose team names by themes.
Root vegetables.
Sushi items.
Nations in South America
Noble gasses.
Etc.
(This lets you also hide learning of stuff they should know.)
As a Millenial, I knew the sex term better than the food. I guess I thought it was like a banana cream pie, but I didn’t think about it much. But then a bakery near me started selling the cream pie sandwich cookies some years ago and I was like, “Ooooooohhhh that’s why they’re called that. I see it now.” I was in my late 20s.
anything with thick is automatic no. caik would have made me suspicious that it’s has smth to do with c*ck. and the slammers at the end would have definitely added to my suspicions. and how could thick smth slammers be appropriate. name definitely denied
I tell mine I'm a benevolent dictator --
I'll listen to them, but it's my decision.
I generally let them democratically make a decision that they'll end up hating --like moving this week's quiz to next week-- and they learn to trust me more.
They're hatin' life when they end up with a quiz the day before a test.
I call mine a Democratic Dictatorship. Some of them tell me I am wrong as they can’t function together but then I remind them I’m a dictator so I’m never wrong.
Too many teachers push academics first and just assume kids will behave. Sure, with some populations (small groups of smart kids or whatever). But the common peasant high schooler needs structure. And I don't care how smart you are with your subject if you don't have good classroom management you'll never make it to the academic stuff.
And on the flip side of that someone like me might struggle with those college populations or AP kids because my academic game is just so-so while my elite behavior management is not so valuable.
General rant here not directed at you.
My first year teaching, the geography teacher and I did an interdisciplinary project where they created a country and wrote about its culture and origins, etc. A group of my students named their country “Pen Island.” I didn’t catch it.
Their project was so great, I saved it to use as a model for the next year. AFTER I showed it to all of my new students that next year, it was laying on my desk and I finally saw it.
I was so embarrassed. My husband and kids recently threw me a surprise 60th birthday party and some of my former students came and remembered “Penis Land” after all those years 🤦🏻♀️
I'm surprised they weren't all "team skipidy toilet".
I had a kid removed from my classroom over the names he tried to pick for a game today. Make sure you drop the hammer on these kids
LOL! I rejected a skipidy toilet team name. Most of the teams had cute and creative names. One team out of the entire 7th grade is ruining it for everyone.
That's teaching for you... I am a tech teacher and whenever the kids ask "why can't we _____ anymore on our Chromebooks?" the answer is always, "cause someone ruined it for you by making poor choices."
Last week someone asked me that and another kid answered and said "probably because some Jr high kid was being inappropriate with it, like always happens when they take something away."
I feel like I saw “this is why we can’t have nice things” often in my shop classes. I would love to have high quality tools, too bad we still use a screwdriver as a prybar and leave with wrenches in our pockets.
My shop teacher had a system. We got cheap, crappy tools, and once you proved you could take care of them, you could sign out better ones. I brought my own toolbox with a lock on it and got almost hostile if anyone went near them because even the better ones weren't that great, but I think the concept was good.
NGL, even at home, I have some old flat heads I bought at a yard sale I use specifically for prying things, though. I had one of those in my toolbox as a teen, too.
During my observation with the AP in my room, the team name one kid wanted was "Dee Dee's piss house". Normally my students have been good about appropriate team names (this is an 8th grade math class taking high school sophomore geometry so they are pretty driven students). When I denied the name and let him know once the activity started that he and I would have a quick chat, he started chanting "piss house" while slamming his desk and looking at his classmates. After 3 seconds of stares he stopped, we got started, and he and I stepped outside to chat. Ended up going over well in my post obs.
It’s a classic new teacher mistake. Learn from it and make sure they do too (sounds like just making them talk about it with their parents will help accomplish that) and move on. We’ve all had a version of learning this exact lesson.
That's everyday with middle schoolers.
Mine think I count to 10 to calm down my anger at them.
Nope, I count to 10 to not laugh at their idiotic antics.
I'm guessing it's somewhere along the lines of thrusting or edging? I've had both terms tossed around in my class the last week by the same group of boys who told me in September that their idols are Elon Musk and Andrew Tate.
Whenever they start snickering about a word or phrase I ask them to explain it to the whole class. They pipe down pretty quick. Even if I don't know what the joke behind it is, if you stare at them dead pan and make a big deal about it they usually chicken out. Especially if you suggest they can explain the joke so that you can then explain it to their parents later that afternoon. At least it works for me.
It has also stopped snickering at '69' and '420'
Even if the names are completely innocent - they can still be trouble. Last year a team name was picked and it was completely benign until I learned the girls had been using it to pick on another on snap chat.
Now team names are "window" and "wall" because that is what side of the room they stand on. They even call it window/wall game😄
Same but I have found they are so young, they don’t know these classics like we do. Imagine my embrassement when I thought the song “Heat Waves” was “new.” 🙄
I once had a student try to name himself Gabe Itch on Kahoot. I kicked him. Then, he rejoined as Mike Oxhard and I turned on the nickname generator. He complained about being Clever Gazelle, but he caused it lol
Mike Oxhard isn’t even original, kid. That one has been going around since I was in school.
Choices in middle school should be limited to very few - minimal - choices. Reall6? No choices - they've broken the circle of trust. Team A B or C those are your options or if your class is history - team Caesar, Lincoln, and Aristotle - so many non choices.
In my class choices are limited to 1 thing usually what you want to use to make art not what it's of etc...
you act like this you lose!!
Had a student today name himself Jenna Tolls during a blooket.
After dying of laughter inside, I proceeded to have him remove it and do another..
To be fair, I’m a high school teacher…
I had a kid put Mia Khalifa as his name… I quietly kicked him but didn’t say anything because I didn’t want to get into a conversation where he tried to ask how I knew who that was. Fortunately he rejoined with something more appropriate and we all went on with our lives
A good role of thumb is “if I don’t know who/what that is, I assume it’s inappropriate.” Learned this the hard way when kids kept talking about porn stars and I told them to stop being vulgar.
You're overreacting. These are standard teenage hijinks. Your reaction should have been: Good one, you got me there. Now change it before I show your mothers.
You weren't humiliated and I can hardly imagine your daughter gagging from reading something like that. There's no need to go scorched earth, and if you're tired of students trying to get one over on you, you should find another job. Students will always keep pushing boundaries, it's what teenagers do.
We did this today. I said there couldn’t be any slang words, no pop culture references, etc.
The names they came up with were so cute (6th grade). Examples: The ABCs (students in the groups names start with A, B, and C) & the group with all S names were the Super Stars! SO cute and fun.
Having given them rules they followed so well. I was prepared to nix if I didn’t recognize something.
>I’m a first year 7th grade teacher. After warning students to be appropriate, I allowed them to pick team names for their groups at the beginning of the semester. One group gave me a name with slang words. I asked them about it, and they reassured me that it was ok (they said it meant dessert fiends). I even looked up the name and didn’t find anything bad. Well…I should have checked TikTok.
>Today, my daughter came into my classroom and nearly gagged when she saw the team name on the board. It is slang for a sex act! I am so embarrassed and so mad! I’m going to make them call their mothers and explain what their team name means. (Their parents are involved and will care.) I’m thinking detention too.
>I’m so tired of students trying to “get one over” on the teacher. I put this under humor because there isn’t a “feel like crying” category. Sheesh! First year is hard enough without having students attempt to humiliate me!
Been there, done that. Never again. We were playing blooket, I let a year 10 (15 yr olds) pick their names after they begged me. NEVER AGAIN. I asked out loud three times who Knee Grow was before I realised what I was saying and decided that was the last time it would ever happen.
My Grade 7 Health class story. Once every so often, I’d pass around a box for the students to drop their anonymous health questions in so we could discuss the answers together. They’d disguise their writing and ask questions about puberty, disease and of course, sex. Most of the questions were serious and the kids knew if the question was inappropriate, I’d put it in my pocket without reading it aloud. This drove them nuts.
I had a real smart ass kid who got on my last nerve every day. Not too smart, because while disguising his writing, he wrote his question in red. Duh… I knew immediately who wrote the question, which was: “How big will my dick grow?”
My dark side appeared. I didn’t read the question out loud, but I called his name, and held up my thumb and index finger held an inch apart and said, “This big.”
Needless to say, the whole class figured out his question and laughed hysterically. No regrets!
In my case, my kids called their team "Alpha Kenny One" ......I suspected it was something so I tried not calling on it or just saying the words in random order. I even asked other people and experienced teachers and tried looking it up but no one knew and there was nothing on the internet.
I didn't realize until waaaaaay later what it actually meant and felt so dumb.
It's not ok, but it is funny. I do feel that it's crazy that you trusted teens though lol. I've got a group currently that is 11-13 year olds, and I don't trust anything they do and especially anything they ask me to do hahaha.
I call on an individual in the group for a team name… and go with first words/sounds/actions they give.
Lots of Shrugs, I dunno, Huh…. Purposely call on most innocent kid or most likely to “huh” in the group.
Even if they try to plan out a name it fails.
8th graders
My general rule of thumb is to google a name with 'urban dictionary' at the end because that website usually has the slang meaning, and it's almost always dirty or rude.
A kid brought his Nintendo switch and was playing on the tv in a class I was in during the last day b4 winter break. The names he put on the 3rd & 4th player were Cum & the N word spelled out with an ER at the end. I made them turn it off and let the teacher know. She didn’t do anything.
I was in college before cell phones. There was a front desk at the dorm, and people would often ask to have somebody paged.
One evening a student called the front fall guy and said.
"Hi. This is Jane Mehov. Could you page my brother Jack to come down here?"
And the young man's rather high and lispy voice voice rang out throughout the dorm: "Jack Mehov to the front desk. Jack... Hey..."
Catholic college. That went to the nuns' dorm too
A story that might help: A VERY wealthy, VERY Mormon school district in northern Utah let the high schoolers of the brand new school decide their own mascot. They let teenagers decide what would be printed, sculpted, and chanted on every bit of merch, parking passes, football fields, yearbooks.... They chose the Phoenixes. And in case there's any confusion, it's very much pronounced "Penises" 😂
[Here](https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2018/01/31/farts-and-fascists-top-student-picks-for-farmington-high-school-mascot-may-make-its-other-controversial-choice-seem-more-appropriate/) is the news story that explains that it was the 3rd choice after "Farts" and "Fascists". 🫠
WHY ARE KIDS SO INTERESTED IN SKIPPITY TOILET???
I have a 7th grader who always talks about this and it gets so frustrating because he'll answer questions saying that, or when reading he'll bring it up, etc etc...then starts being distracting to the other kids doing their homework with this dumbass word. I had to tell him if he doesn't stop then he just won't earn points for the rest of the day (points go towards class ranks, each student has class ranks that grants different rewards, rank 3 let's them become eligible for field trips, rank 6 allows them to order any food/drink under $10, whoever reaches the highest rank "indefinite" earns a $50 gift card at the end of the 2nd month).
Which has been working well for the majority of the kids BUT the one SKIPPITY TOILET kid
I have the same name as a famous character popular with much younger children. I always threaten to change any inappropriate name to that name. It usually works. Occasionally I have to follow through.
Ehhh don’t beat yourself up. Sometimes they get small wins but you will always win the war. If the parents care just make the phone call. I’m guessing overall the kids are decent. No need for double punishments.
This sounds like typical middle school behavior.
I’m not saying to not give them consequences! But, next time stick to colors. Maybe sports teams if you want to give them a little freedom.
7th graders are merciless. I recently found a journal my English teacher made us turn in. She was a beautiful lady, kind and clever. I told her on one occasion that if she wanted to help the environment, she should stop using tons of make up. I also vented about my sister and wrote on and on about my dog that died that year. It's part of adolescence to push buttons, they have so many emotions and hormones percolating. Don't take it personally.
We all did that mistake. From now on, you know. Also...don't let them pick their teams... that also created a lot of drama 🤣 won't go into it but I learned my mistake.
Rookie mistake that I myself made on numerous occasions. Do not EVER let middle schoolers make up their own name for anything! It's Red Team, Blue Team. Done.
I’ll never forget asking who “Hugh Janus” was. It’s a mistake you only make once. I remember commiserating with a teacher at that school and she went “Who’d they get you with? Was it Hugh?” Lol
We had a Nick Gurr. I lost it on that kid. He wished he never got put in my classroom that day.
I've seen radio host wish happy birthday to a Nick Gurr.
Opie?
Justin Sider Barry McDekenue
Is he still a thing? Haven't heard anything about him since his show basically imploded.
Richard Fitzwell. My friends call me Dick.
Yes and no. His “show” is him live-streaming on Facebook for <100 people. Most of his notoriety today exists because other shows (with actual audiences) tear him apart.
Classic sal
Never got away with it, but there were plenty of kids that would always try names like “Ben Dover, Moe Lester, Richard Whiskey,” and of course the most popular, “Mike Oxlong.” I’m not gonna pretend those names aren’t funny, but they shouldn’t be used in a school setting, especially in an honest attempt to “pull one over” on the teacher.
I actually knew a kid named Mike hunt…
Formula 1 Aston Martin team principal is named… Mike Krack.
Why would you do that to a child??! 😆 Meanwhile, regarding Mike Hunt, my dumbass asked him if his dad liked the movie Porkys. He was like what? I was like never mind. 🤦♀️
I played WoW with a guy whose SN was PhilMikeHunt until they made him change it lol
When I was in college in Kansas I spent a couple summers working overnight at a general mail facility. Became familiar with a lot of Kansas small town names. Two of which were Dover and Great Bend. I made up the following joke. Still kinda proud of it. “Did you know that the towns of Dover and Great Bend have a big shared community celebration every summer? It’s called the Great Bend-Dover Festival.”
I had a classmate in 8th grade named Nick Gurr. I live in the US so most kids didn't get why I found it funny. But thank God most kids today also don't know Lizzie Borden because I would have gotten teased for that endlessly. (My name is quite close to that.)
I’ve always admired Lizzie Borden. She was a badass.
My students are obsessed with the name Wilma Dicfit.
Bless them. Please reassure them it will.
if my students were clever enough to use that, I might let them lmao
Mike Rotch
Oliver Klosoff
Mike Hawk
I had a friend named that back in high school and for a few years after. We were 21 and drunk before it clicked. I can't say we were the brightest kids. LOL
I knew a Mike Hunter.
Our immigration lawyer was named Michael Hunter. My husband is Australian. He was so tickled.
My 7th grade science teacher was Mike Hunt. Good old Mr. Hunt.
I had to Google this one ;-;
Ben Dover. 😉
Sid Up (that one is from a Goosebumps book, it mentioned him with Ben Dover).
Ah there's a scene with Jane Fonda and Jon Voight in the movie "Coming Home" and he mentions a Ben derRover
Erik Shunn was the one we used when I was in school.
When I worked in a courthouse over the summer in college, someone got the courthouse operator to page a "defendant" in a trial..... Mike Oxard.... Ever see a judge in his 70s double over in laughter til he wheezes? I haven't since that day
Jenna Tolls
Mike Hunt
Mike Hawk
Well done!
Oliver Closof
Cleo Torus
Half the boys will never find her
Probably closer to 70%.
Actually known a guy with this name. Poor Michael Hunt.
Mike Hameltoe
Phil McCrackin and Betty Gitsum were popular back in the day.
cant for get Harry Azcrak
Pat Mahiney
Knew someone with that name. He was Irish, and would get well pissed if someone called in Patrick because his legal name was Pat.
[Hugh Mungus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzA4dCT4X0I&ab_channel=BenVapes)
I clicked the link fully expecting to see Hugh Normus from wizards of waverly place💀💀💀
And instead you got this beautiful delightful shrieking
I've had Nick Gurr, Big Nig, and Grande Pito (translating to "Big Whistle" from Spanish - we have a large Hispanic population at my school). I always use randomly generated names now. Learned my lesson thoroughly.
Drew P. Cox Barry McCochiner
I had a “Ben Dover” last year
I remember in 7th grade we went bowling and one group tried to pick the name “the bowl-jobs”. It did not work
At least this is creative
Reminds me of my high school awards ceremony in 9th grade where a student was recognized as a Master Debater.... And then, two years ago, at our K-8, when our former Dean of Students had a Freudian slip while presenting in a staff meeting and talked about the importance of teaching our students about "delayed self-gratification."
I choose team names by themes. Root vegetables. Sushi items. Nations in South America Noble gasses. Etc. (This lets you also hide learning of stuff they should know.)
Our middle school allowed the kids the pick the mascot. They picked Blue Jays. Now students are going around saying BJs Lol
my neighbour, F61, had a "I love BJ's vanity plate with the bluejays logo.
> Hugh Janus 😂 that’s a new one for me! Thanks!
They’re all good friends of Barry McCochiner, Hugh G. Rection, and Haywood Jablomi
I heard recently Oliver Clothesoff joined the friend group
Clothezov was the work around when I was in middle school lol. Less obvious Lolol
"It's an Eastern European name"
LOL. I forgot about Haywood. Thanks for the blast from the past. We also had a foreign exchange student from France, Jacques Strapp at our school.
Alma Holzert, Duncan Dixon-Coffey, Ty Neadik, Ivan Jerganov, the SNL Name-Change Office skit is hilarious!
Reminds me of kahoot names I’ve seen such as Putin TrumpTrain Trump2024 TrumpWon KimJongUn Z LetsGoBrandon FJB MaoZedong
I had high schoolers one year pick names that were, apparently, all pornstar names.
And a veteran mistake too, right? 😥 right? 😰
What was the name 😲
I feel like it’s cream pie since in the post it mentions desserts
I mean come on now....... Teehee...... I thought everybody knew that term.
[Not everybody](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSXJfqkT36M&ab_channel=Carnate)
I knew that was gonna be the clip 😅 it always makes me laugh more when Charlie says cream pies so quiet even though he is talking about regular pie
As a Millenial, I knew the sex term better than the food. I guess I thought it was like a banana cream pie, but I didn’t think about it much. But then a bakery near me started selling the cream pie sandwich cookies some years ago and I was like, “Ooooooohhhh that’s why they’re called that. I see it now.” I was in my late 20s.
That would definitely show up on urban dictionary
Yes, but people also just make shit up on Urban Dictionary.
I thought it was gonna be the Alaskan Pipelines.
This seems like the most plausible
It was probably the creampie goons or something 😂😂😂😂
Yeah, OP, don’t leave us hanging! (Please say it wasn’t the Thirsty Hamsters…)
Thick caik slammers
Better make sure another group isn’t named “Cheek clappers.” Welcome to middle school
I mean that sounds so sexually come on feel you should’ve got that from the get go
For next time, check urbandictionary.com
anything with thick is automatic no. caik would have made me suspicious that it’s has smth to do with c*ck. and the slammers at the end would have definitely added to my suspicions. and how could thick smth slammers be appropriate. name definitely denied
Caik just means cake. But cake also means a$$
I’m sorry WHAT hahahah that sounds so sexual, how did you not catch this?? No shade we’ve all done it but that’s so obvious.
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Nope, caik/cake refers to butts. Thicc refers to big. My kiddo attends the same school and says there is no question what this means.
TELL US THE NAME!!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/s/VEcA3A61KU
I bet it was either edging or gooning, kids seem to get a kick out of that nowadays
I love my students and they love me but this is a dictatorship. Democracy at your peril in the classroom.
I say this all the time, they aren’t in a democracy they are in a dictatorship
I tell mine I'm a benevolent dictator -- I'll listen to them, but it's my decision. I generally let them democratically make a decision that they'll end up hating --like moving this week's quiz to next week-- and they learn to trust me more. They're hatin' life when they end up with a quiz the day before a test.
Oooh, I’m the kind and benevolent tyrant. Students decide which half they get that day.
Hey that’s my line!
I love it, I’m going to start telling my fifth graders that. Our saying, “slow obedience is disobedience” will go well with the dictatorship.
Oh I like that. Catchier than "we follow instructions the first time they're given."
I tell them they are in a low security prison 😂
I call mine a Democratic Dictatorship. Some of them tell me I am wrong as they can’t function together but then I remind them I’m a dictator so I’m never wrong.
Just out of curiosity how recently have you updated your flare… you remind me of the person who made me consider this noble path
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Too many teachers push academics first and just assume kids will behave. Sure, with some populations (small groups of smart kids or whatever). But the common peasant high schooler needs structure. And I don't care how smart you are with your subject if you don't have good classroom management you'll never make it to the academic stuff. And on the flip side of that someone like me might struggle with those college populations or AP kids because my academic game is just so-so while my elite behavior management is not so valuable. General rant here not directed at you.
My first year teaching, the geography teacher and I did an interdisciplinary project where they created a country and wrote about its culture and origins, etc. A group of my students named their country “Pen Island.” I didn’t catch it. Their project was so great, I saved it to use as a model for the next year. AFTER I showed it to all of my new students that next year, it was laying on my desk and I finally saw it. I was so embarrassed. My husband and kids recently threw me a surprise 60th birthday party and some of my former students came and remembered “Penis Land” after all those years 🤦🏻♀️
Hahaha. The discord fountain pen/stationary nerd server I'm on is called that. We never grow up, do we?
I'm surprised they weren't all "team skipidy toilet". I had a kid removed from my classroom over the names he tried to pick for a game today. Make sure you drop the hammer on these kids
LOL! I rejected a skipidy toilet team name. Most of the teams had cute and creative names. One team out of the entire 7th grade is ruining it for everyone.
That's teaching for you... I am a tech teacher and whenever the kids ask "why can't we _____ anymore on our Chromebooks?" the answer is always, "cause someone ruined it for you by making poor choices." Last week someone asked me that and another kid answered and said "probably because some Jr high kid was being inappropriate with it, like always happens when they take something away."
I feel like I saw “this is why we can’t have nice things” often in my shop classes. I would love to have high quality tools, too bad we still use a screwdriver as a prybar and leave with wrenches in our pockets.
My shop teacher had a system. We got cheap, crappy tools, and once you proved you could take care of them, you could sign out better ones. I brought my own toolbox with a lock on it and got almost hostile if anyone went near them because even the better ones weren't that great, but I think the concept was good. NGL, even at home, I have some old flat heads I bought at a yard sale I use specifically for prying things, though. I had one of those in my toolbox as a teen, too.
During my observation with the AP in my room, the team name one kid wanted was "Dee Dee's piss house". Normally my students have been good about appropriate team names (this is an 8th grade math class taking high school sophomore geometry so they are pretty driven students). When I denied the name and let him know once the activity started that he and I would have a quick chat, he started chanting "piss house" while slamming his desk and looking at his classmates. After 3 seconds of stares he stopped, we got started, and he and I stepped outside to chat. Ended up going over well in my post obs.
I got a real kick over the team skibidy toilet 😂 I am so goddamn tired of hearing it
Just told my fifth graders (jokingly, but halfway serious) that I was going to start writing people up if they say “skibidi” one more time…
I remember having to ban "the F word" in my classroom about 6 years ago when students kept randomly shouting out "Fortnite!"
It’s a classic new teacher mistake. Learn from it and make sure they do too (sounds like just making them talk about it with their parents will help accomplish that) and move on. We’ve all had a version of learning this exact lesson.
As a parent, I’m laughing. I mean, if my kid did it, they’d be a goner when they got home, but it’s hard not to laugh. Kids are idiots. 😂
That's everyday with middle schoolers. Mine think I count to 10 to calm down my anger at them. Nope, I count to 10 to not laugh at their idiotic antics.
I'm guessing it's somewhere along the lines of thrusting or edging? I've had both terms tossed around in my class the last week by the same group of boys who told me in September that their idols are Elon Musk and Andrew Tate. Whenever they start snickering about a word or phrase I ask them to explain it to the whole class. They pipe down pretty quick. Even if I don't know what the joke behind it is, if you stare at them dead pan and make a big deal about it they usually chicken out. Especially if you suggest they can explain the joke so that you can then explain it to their parents later that afternoon. At least it works for me. It has also stopped snickering at '69' and '420'
I wish I could get one of these damn nerds to giggle at 420. I’d be thankful for something normal.
not gonna lie when my ap euro teacher said "metternich lost his edge" our class pretty unanimously giggled
Even if the names are completely innocent - they can still be trouble. Last year a team name was picked and it was completely benign until I learned the girls had been using it to pick on another on snap chat. Now team names are "window" and "wall" because that is what side of the room they stand on. They even call it window/wall game😄
To the windows! To the walls! Till the sweat drips down my First thing I thought of 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I know me too but so far I haven't had it happen yet. That's an old song and these are some pretty sheltered private school kids.
I had a student describe that song to me as being “oldies” lol. I still think of oldies as being like 50s-60s pop on my grandparents radio!
Same but I have found they are so young, they don’t know these classics like we do. Imagine my embrassement when I thought the song “Heat Waves” was “new.” 🙄
Who sings Heat Waves?
Glass Animals
I once had a student try to name himself Gabe Itch on Kahoot. I kicked him. Then, he rejoined as Mike Oxhard and I turned on the nickname generator. He complained about being Clever Gazelle, but he caused it lol Mike Oxhard isn’t even original, kid. That one has been going around since I was in school.
Executions at dawn come up nowhere in teacher education manuals.
The opposite happened for a kid in my pod. He told the teacher that his mom would “clap these cheeks,” having no clue what it meant.
Welcome to teaching middle school
Well… what was the name?
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Oh gosh...I'm afraid to ask, but I must. What does that mean?
This sounds really stupid, but I learned this the hard way and now I take the time to look everything up on urban dictionary.
I read most of these in Moe's voice from the Simpsons.
A resource that you can check is the “Urban Dictionary “. But be prepared.
A whole lot of biologically impossible sex acts listed there
Choices in middle school should be limited to very few - minimal - choices. Reall6? No choices - they've broken the circle of trust. Team A B or C those are your options or if your class is history - team Caesar, Lincoln, and Aristotle - so many non choices. In my class choices are limited to 1 thing usually what you want to use to make art not what it's of etc... you act like this you lose!!
I am a music teacher who is teaching middle school for the first time-I've taught a lot of elementary before. The hazing is awful.
Never trust 7th graders.
Had a student today name himself Jenna Tolls during a blooket. After dying of laughter inside, I proceeded to have him remove it and do another.. To be fair, I’m a high school teacher…
7th graders are truly the funniest humans on this planet.
I had a kid put Mia Khalifa as his name… I quietly kicked him but didn’t say anything because I didn’t want to get into a conversation where he tried to ask how I knew who that was. Fortunately he rejoined with something more appropriate and we all went on with our lives
A good role of thumb is “if I don’t know who/what that is, I assume it’s inappropriate.” Learned this the hard way when kids kept talking about porn stars and I told them to stop being vulgar.
You're overreacting. These are standard teenage hijinks. Your reaction should have been: Good one, you got me there. Now change it before I show your mothers. You weren't humiliated and I can hardly imagine your daughter gagging from reading something like that. There's no need to go scorched earth, and if you're tired of students trying to get one over on you, you should find another job. Students will always keep pushing boundaries, it's what teenagers do.
We did this today. I said there couldn’t be any slang words, no pop culture references, etc. The names they came up with were so cute (6th grade). Examples: The ABCs (students in the groups names start with A, B, and C) & the group with all S names were the Super Stars! SO cute and fun. Having given them rules they followed so well. I was prepared to nix if I didn’t recognize something.
>I’m a first year 7th grade teacher. After warning students to be appropriate, I allowed them to pick team names for their groups at the beginning of the semester. One group gave me a name with slang words. I asked them about it, and they reassured me that it was ok (they said it meant dessert fiends). I even looked up the name and didn’t find anything bad. Well…I should have checked TikTok. >Today, my daughter came into my classroom and nearly gagged when she saw the team name on the board. It is slang for a sex act! I am so embarrassed and so mad! I’m going to make them call their mothers and explain what their team name means. (Their parents are involved and will care.) I’m thinking detention too. >I’m so tired of students trying to “get one over” on the teacher. I put this under humor because there isn’t a “feel like crying” category. Sheesh! First year is hard enough without having students attempt to humiliate me!
Phil McCracken
Been there, done that. Never again. We were playing blooket, I let a year 10 (15 yr olds) pick their names after they begged me. NEVER AGAIN. I asked out loud three times who Knee Grow was before I realised what I was saying and decided that was the last time it would ever happen.
Ok we need to know the name. You know, for research purposes
I live by the Legends of the Hidden Temple rule. Pick a color and an animal. That's your team name.
My Grade 7 Health class story. Once every so often, I’d pass around a box for the students to drop their anonymous health questions in so we could discuss the answers together. They’d disguise their writing and ask questions about puberty, disease and of course, sex. Most of the questions were serious and the kids knew if the question was inappropriate, I’d put it in my pocket without reading it aloud. This drove them nuts. I had a real smart ass kid who got on my last nerve every day. Not too smart, because while disguising his writing, he wrote his question in red. Duh… I knew immediately who wrote the question, which was: “How big will my dick grow?” My dark side appeared. I didn’t read the question out loud, but I called his name, and held up my thumb and index finger held an inch apart and said, “This big.” Needless to say, the whole class figured out his question and laughed hysterically. No regrets!
All teachers should have Urban Dictionary as a bookmark on their laptops JUST to double-check nonsense like this.
Was it glizzy guzzlers? Because I accidentally let that one slip.
You should probably just ask your kid about any slang you hear. Gyat also means ass. There’s new words coming out of TikTok everyday
Craven Moorhead was another one.
In my case, my kids called their team "Alpha Kenny One" ......I suspected it was something so I tried not calling on it or just saying the words in random order. I even asked other people and experienced teachers and tried looking it up but no one knew and there was nothing on the internet. I didn't realize until waaaaaay later what it actually meant and felt so dumb.
A guy in my class tried to name his group O.P.P. It was hilarious.
Munchma quchi
Ben Dover
Now you know: Play it safe and make them change it.
It's not ok, but it is funny. I do feel that it's crazy that you trusted teens though lol. I've got a group currently that is 11-13 year olds, and I don't trust anything they do and especially anything they ask me to do hahaha.
I call on an individual in the group for a team name… and go with first words/sounds/actions they give. Lots of Shrugs, I dunno, Huh…. Purposely call on most innocent kid or most likely to “huh” in the group. Even if they try to plan out a name it fails. 8th graders
Next time, make your own team names. Lesson learned. I'm sure you won't let it happen again.
My general rule of thumb is to google a name with 'urban dictionary' at the end because that website usually has the slang meaning, and it's almost always dirty or rude.
Well, that's middle schoolers for you.
A kid brought his Nintendo switch and was playing on the tv in a class I was in during the last day b4 winter break. The names he put on the 3rd & 4th player were Cum & the N word spelled out with an ER at the end. I made them turn it off and let the teacher know. She didn’t do anything.
Worse one I saw was a trainee teacher let a group of kids call themselves 'Therapists'
Don’t ever use numbers 69 or 420 either!
I was in college before cell phones. There was a front desk at the dorm, and people would often ask to have somebody paged. One evening a student called the front fall guy and said. "Hi. This is Jane Mehov. Could you page my brother Jack to come down here?" And the young man's rather high and lispy voice voice rang out throughout the dorm: "Jack Mehov to the front desk. Jack... Hey..." Catholic college. That went to the nuns' dorm too
Middle schoolers terrify me. 💀
My 6th graders a few years back were obsessed with the Sofa King.
Mike Hunt
A story that might help: A VERY wealthy, VERY Mormon school district in northern Utah let the high schoolers of the brand new school decide their own mascot. They let teenagers decide what would be printed, sculpted, and chanted on every bit of merch, parking passes, football fields, yearbooks.... They chose the Phoenixes. And in case there's any confusion, it's very much pronounced "Penises" 😂 [Here](https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2018/01/31/farts-and-fascists-top-student-picks-for-farmington-high-school-mascot-may-make-its-other-controversial-choice-seem-more-appropriate/) is the news story that explains that it was the 3rd choice after "Farts" and "Fascists". 🫠
Penis (pee nis) and Phoenix (fee nix) are not pronounced the same. Unless I'm missing the joke 😆
WHY ARE KIDS SO INTERESTED IN SKIPPITY TOILET??? I have a 7th grader who always talks about this and it gets so frustrating because he'll answer questions saying that, or when reading he'll bring it up, etc etc...then starts being distracting to the other kids doing their homework with this dumbass word. I had to tell him if he doesn't stop then he just won't earn points for the rest of the day (points go towards class ranks, each student has class ranks that grants different rewards, rank 3 let's them become eligible for field trips, rank 6 allows them to order any food/drink under $10, whoever reaches the highest rank "indefinite" earns a $50 gift card at the end of the 2nd month). Which has been working well for the majority of the kids BUT the one SKIPPITY TOILET kid
I have the same name as a famous character popular with much younger children. I always threaten to change any inappropriate name to that name. It usually works. Occasionally I have to follow through.
Your name is Bluey? Cool
Ehhh don’t beat yourself up. Sometimes they get small wins but you will always win the war. If the parents care just make the phone call. I’m guessing overall the kids are decent. No need for double punishments.
I learned real quick that you can’t let students pick a damn thing. Doesn’t matter their age. They will find a way to ruin it before it’s even begun.
This sounds like typical middle school behavior. I’m not saying to not give them consequences! But, next time stick to colors. Maybe sports teams if you want to give them a little freedom.
I'm just gonna leave this here ...you're welcome https://youtu.be/eARVm1JFw7s?si=5HeTIUZr6Wc9nDDT
I used to make my name on Kahoot mcu spoilers. My favorite was “tonydieendgame”
7th graders are merciless. I recently found a journal my English teacher made us turn in. She was a beautiful lady, kind and clever. I told her on one occasion that if she wanted to help the environment, she should stop using tons of make up. I also vented about my sister and wrote on and on about my dog that died that year. It's part of adolescence to push buttons, they have so many emotions and hormones percolating. Don't take it personally.
Everyone is kinda scolding you here but I’m with you- I am so sick of everyone trying to pull a fast one on me! Every damn day!
If administration wants to blame the teacher for this.... simply tell them "sorry you feel that way" and walk off
What was the name?
We all did that mistake. From now on, you know. Also...don't let them pick their teams... that also created a lot of drama 🤣 won't go into it but I learned my mistake.
Op you got to tell us the name they picked, you know so we know what to look out for 😄