Sixth Grader Named "Most Likely NOT to Have Children"
Sixth Grader Named "Most Likely NOT to Have Children"
Joined: 12/31/69
#1Sixth Grader Named "Most Likely NOT to Have Children"
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:04pm
But happily his teachers also dubbed him "Sir Clowns-a-Lot" so that barren childless future hasn't got him down! The American Education system is doomed...
Parents Demand Apology From Teachers, Reprimand
mejusthavingfun
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
#2re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:09pmWe once gave a girl the "Monica Lewinsky Award for Excellence" in college. (she was sleeping with the club president.)
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#2re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:10pmWow. I wonder if they were inferring he was gay or just unf*ckable. Either way, happy sixth grade graduation!
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
#3re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:16pmNo Kringas, they meant that he is the only virgin in the 6th grade.
....but the world goes 'round
#4re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:18pm
I do hope that those so called teachers face some serious consequences for this. Did they really think that it was funny?
Gee I wonder what would have happened if it was their child up there?
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#5re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:19pmWell lets face it, for 10 he's not lookin' too good.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#6re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:23pm
Looking at the picture, I'm guessing gay. Still, a pretty harsh thing to slap on a sixth grader.
Of course, I've read elsewhere that when he was presented with the award he snapped "Oh whatever! Miss Rogalski I wouldn't talk if I were you. If you end up married to that Shop Teacher you've been seeing the only kids around YOUR place will be the boyscouts he brings home! Now go back to the coat room and eat the leftover graham crackers as usual, Mmmmm Kay?"
popular_elphie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/05
#7re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:24pm
I was the girl version of that in grade school. I repel boys for some reason (no snarky comments, please).
Most elementary schools put random categories like that in so that every student will get some sort of prize.
#8re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:26pmThis is the kind of thing you're suppossed to do in the teacher's lounge...when the kids can't hear.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#9re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:26pmLOL! Oh, Joe!
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#10re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:33pm
I wish they did SH*T like this at my school!
I would've taken this over "Most Likely To Be a Guest On Oprah" any day!
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
#11re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:33pmI emailed the principal and school board and principal...poor kid!
"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#12re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:35pm
I don't think think it's all that big a deal. I mean really. If this is going to cause emotional scars he has bigger issues than this.
I can't tell you some of the **** my teachers did at our end of the year assembly. It's not meant to be taken that seriously.
....but the world goes 'round
#13re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:38pm
you know, I was totally with the family up until
Amy Sims said her son needs counseling because of the awards. The school has offered it, but an agreement on who will provide it has not been reached, Thomas reported.
Counseling- seriously? Man, I wonder sometimes how anyone in my generation ever made it out of school alive, what with the lack of counselors available anytime something bad happened to us. Explain that the teachers were wrong, have them apologize to the kid, sure, I can get and agree with all of that- but counseling?
And I also don't think I'm getting what 'most likely NOT to have children' is supposed to mean- is that supposed to infer never getting laid or something? Being too ugly to get laid? Because it's been my plan since I was about 12 to never have any children, so I'm wondering if I should be worried about something about myself...
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#14re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:39pm
If this is going to cause emotional scars he has bigger issues than this.
I dunno. It's sort of school-sanctioned humilation. I don't see the problem with "Sir Clowns A Lot," but I don't see any justification for the never have children part.
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#15re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:43pmWhen I read it, I assume they are calling him Gay. There is no greater shame for a 6th grade boy. This is a Theater board-- I'd guess a few on here knew the pain of being labeled by their classmates- I can't imagine what it would be like to have your teachers call you that in front of your peers.
#16re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:43pm
it's probably some inside joke.
Like the teachers were always telling him "wait till you have kids and you'll see how hard it is to keep them in line" and the kid probably said "I'll never have kids!" as a snarky reply or something.
You know you never get the whole story in these articles.
....but the world goes 'round
#17re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:45pmActually studies show this sort of thing IS a big deal. There's been a lot of publicity in the wake of Columbine on the effect of bullying. But recent studies show that isolation/humiliation in front of peers is much more damaging to a student.
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#18re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:46pm
I was someone who was tortured horrendously pretty much from the time I was in kindergarten till the time I graduated high school. Yeah, I survived it, but I often wish that someone (anyone, really) had stepped in and made things a little easier. I don't know the kid's situation or what led up to this, but I know that if I had been in sixth grade and was put up for ridicule in front of the school with teacher approval, I'd have been more than mortified myself.
And while it's true you'll never get the true story in the articles, having been on the receiving end of all sorts of humiliation it wouldn't surprised me if this was motivated by cruelty under the guise of humor. I'm willing to give the kid the benefit of the doubt until I hear otherwise.
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
#19re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 3:53pmSeriously? We had funny awards given out on swim team, summer camp, youth group, senior superlatives... No one ever had to enter therapy over it. Please. I think he has much bigger problems if he gets that bent out of shape over this; his parents don't need to use his teachers as a scapegoat.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
#20re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 4:23pm
I can understand the trauma this could cause a child, especially if he is sensitive.
To be humiliated by his teachers, in front of his classmates-about something he may not even be sure of the meaning, but does feel it's negative and that people are laughing-definitely!
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#21re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 4:27pmoff off-topic, but I love your sig Jane2.
....but the world goes 'round
#22re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 4:29pm
Love yours too, Taz!
Too bad I had to find out that mine is true!
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
Updated On: 6/14/07 at 04:29 PM
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#23re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 4:33pm
'I think he has much bigger problems if he gets that bent out of shape over this'
I think the fact that this could very well be taken as the mocking of the perceived homosexuality of a sixth grader is a huge problem. Not one of my grade/middle school teachers would have ever done that. Not a one. I think it's reprehensible. Speaking as someone who also was tormented daily by the students of my school, I found great comfort in the fact that my teachers were all extremely sensitive, supportive and, in many ways, protective of me. Had a teacher turned and made a comment like that, I would have been absolutely devastated.
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
#24re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 4:36pmBut we don't know if that's what was meant by it.
....but the world goes 'round
Videos