March 15, 2006

Right Before My Eyes!

Today I went to a middle school where I've been leading a here-and-there residency since October. The kids in my class look pretty much the same, but I've noticed that the kids in the hallway look older.

The months are visible on them.

Hilarious to me (but definitely not to them): physical growth also seems to include a combination of these extracurricular accessories:

  • eye make-up and or lip gloss
  • scrawny mustaches
  • painfully OC inspired hair cuts (only on male white kids)
  • visible apprehension of the upcoming Spring dance

I'm about to leave for another middle school. One of today's desires for these students is that I will not have to hear them use the phrase "tentacle rape."

Once was enough to demonstrate that their minds are exactly where you'd think they'd be...aka exactly where yours is.

As a side note: just because a book is about seventh graders is NOT A VALID REASON to let your own seventh-grade child read it.

Posted by Ida at March 15, 2006 01:50 PM
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But I want to read the book about a seventh-grader. And what the hells is tentacle r*pe? I was allowed to put hells in my comment but not r*ape.

Posted by: ian at March 15, 2006 03:43 PM

Okay, but really it's about ninth graders (but that didn't sound as good...mmm, delicious bending of truth).

It's this book. I don't think they're reading the manga version...

Tentacles: I think anime is to blame.

I guess they're not playing Dungeons and Dragons...

Posted by: ida at March 21, 2006 01:04 PM

That book's been made into an anime. And maybe I already know where the tentacle r*ape came from; I watched it years ago.

Posted by: ian at March 23, 2006 09:34 AM

I'm pretty sure you did watch it--and I think I watched it with you and that's how I know about it. Like, Ninja Scroll or something.

And the parents know. Or, at least, have purchased said items.

I do not think they really know.

Posted by: ida at March 24, 2006 05:51 PM