The Theme for my Morning Was S E X

[Bananas]

One class period, an 8th grade girl in my resource room was solving a word search with her spelling words. She asked me if s-e-x was a word.

Well, yes.

She thinks for a moment and then says, "I know that that is."

Not wanting to get into anything with the 4th grader working hard behind her, I responded something about that being for those who are older.

She said that she had seen that being done before. :eek:Right about the time that I scraped my jaw off the floor, she said that she has seen that on TV before.

She also enlightened me that her mother doesn't care and lets her watch that.

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After I have recovered from this episode, along come my 7th and 8th grade guys for their language class. I am putting up several sentences on the white board for our opener working on sentence combining. A few of the guys helped me think of the sentences/topic, which included Mountain Dew. One guy asked if he could share something truthful he had heard.

He just blurted out that if one drinks Mountain Dew, it will lower your sperm count. :confused: Jaw on the floor yet again.

Do you know how you can't always talk and write at the same time? I found myself writing the word sperm on the board instead of Mountain Dew. Fortunately, my body hid that from the rest of the guys and I quickly corrected it. :eek:

Working with middle schoolers is rarely dull.

[Flipp]

I'm assuming your student is either an ELD student or special needs if she has never been exposed to the word SEX. I would also assume that if she's that innocent, then Mom isn't letting her watch hard core porn, but rather the suggested under the sheets sex that's on TV all the time.
Still, and this isn't easy, but I think you have to take this incident up to administration. If Mom is exposing her to pornography then that's a form of abuse.

As for the guys, you can I think safely tell them that what they have heard is an urban legend ... and then quickly change the subject!
Hey you could segway them into a discussion of other, less racy, urban legends!

Or you could tell them that while there sperm count is safe, if they drink too much Mountain Dew the high sugar content will make them fat, and the high caffeine levels will make them jittery, and the combination might be enough to prevent any girls from wanting to discover their sperm count anyway!! :eek:;):D

[muinteoir]

A few of the guys helped me think of the sentences/topic, which included Mountain Dew. One guy asked if he could share something truthful he had heard.

He just blurted out that if one drinks Mountain Dew, it will lower your sperm count. :confused:

LOL! You just have to wonder where ideas like that originate. I mean, did that idea just pop into someone's head during the night, or what?

Working with middle schoolers is rarely dull.

But it is often entertaining!:p

[Boxcar]

It sounds like you really did have a surprising morning! You seem to have handled it smoothly, though. I was laughing the whole time I was reading your post.

[Ms.Champion]

Oh, I know where you are coming from. Teaching middle schoolers (6th grade for me) is soooo hard to do sometimes. I have to watch what I say and how I say it...lol

[theteacherchron]

Oh, I know where you are coming from. Teaching middle schoolers (6th grade for me) is soooo hard to do sometimes. I have to watch what I say and how I say it...lol

You are so right about middle schoolers and how you have to be careful about what you say. Sometimes the kids say things like that just get a reaction out of you or to see what your response will be.

[MissTeach]

When I was teaching English, we had a short story in our literature book that referred to a lady going to the beauty shop to get a 'blow job'. Needless to say, I only had one class read that story out loud.