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Sixth Grader Named "Most Likely NOT to Have Children"
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#25re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 4:39pmMy teachers just ignored me completely for two years, seriously. I left as soon as I could.
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#26re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 4:39pmYou know, whatever was meant by it, it has a negative connotation. Teachers are not in a child's life to make fun of him, nor to incite his classmates to laugh at him. This can be extremely hurtful. I know how much influence a teacher's opinion and words have on a student from too many years of experience!
robbiej
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#27re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 4:40pmDoesn't matter. It's the first thing I thought of when I read this article...and it seems to be the first thing others thought of as well. Ain't nothing wrong with coming up with funny awards for the kids. Sir Clowns-a-Lot is harmless. Most Likely to Not Have Children? Even if they didn't mean it to be a veiled reference to homosexuality, it could easily be taken that way, as witnessed here in this thread. The teachers should have known better.
#28re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 4:44pm
Don't you think we should hear their side of it first?
They may have indeed been wrong, but I'm not rushing to judge anybody without hearing what they have to say.
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#29re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 4:46pm
You wanna give every kid an award? How about Best Dressed? Neatest Desk? Most Encyclopedic Knowledge of Broadway Musicals.
A sixth grader named Most Likely NOT to Have Children? Most unlikely.
#30re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 4:50pmTaz, I don't think we need to hear another side of it. No matter what occurs, it is NOT the teacher's place to make fun of a student. Never. A teacher is and should be held to much higher standards than whatever a student may say or do.
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#31re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 4:51pm
Frankly, I don't need to hear their side.
Like in sexual harrassment in the workplace, the mere appearance of impropriety is grounds for action. And that is behavior between adults. I can't imagine WHO thought that this particular award was appropriate.
#32re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 4:54pm
You wanna give every kid an award? How about Best Dressed? Neatest Desk? Most Encyclopedic Knowledge of Broadway Musicals.
(sarcasm on)
Best Dressed- And hurt the self-esteem of the kids who can't afford to buy nicer/cuter clothes?
Neatest Desk- Are you making fun of the kid with OCD? He can't help compulsively cleaning his desk, and now you mock him by giving him an award for it?
Most Encyclopedic Knowledge of Broadway Musicals- but what about the kids who can't memorize as well as the other kids? or the kids who can't afford to see musicals? or what about kid who knows the second most about musicals, how can you not give him an award too?
(/sarcasm off)
#33re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 6:37pm
Hell of a way to start middle school. Good one, teach.
Did they really think this was a good idea? What f**king idiots.
#35re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 6:48pmI don't need to hear their side either. Nothing they could say would make it right.
#36re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 7:08pm
All the awards ceremonies of this nature that I've witnessed are hardly as mild as "Class Cutie". At summer camp, I was voted "Biggest Klutz", my friend received "Most Likely to Develop Skin Cancer" after a bad sunburn, then there were the "Dumbest Blonde" and "Dumbest Non-Blonde" awards given out. I'd be interested to see what some of the other awards given out by these teachers, because I doubt "Most Likely Not to Have Children" was as "bad" as it got, but this child is the only one whose parents are pressing charges.
I agree with Taz; none of us actually know the whole story. I think people assuming this alludes to the boy being gay is worse than these teachers- who actually knew him and interacted with him on a daily basis- giving him an award inspired by some sort of inside joke that none of us are privy to. On that note, did it occur to any of you that this boy could be showing signs that he's gay and his parents were furious that other people were bringing attention to something they'd like to ignore? Assumptions can go either way.
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#37re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 7:16pmI wonder how funny it would be if any of the unmarried female teachers at the school were given the "Most likely to NOT have children" award? I bet everyone would laugh and laugh and laugh at the silly spinsters-to-be.
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#38re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 7:18pmThe point you bring up is very valid as well. It really could be that, but I think (or would like to at least) that any parent would be more angered over the fact that their child was humiliated than anything it might indicate.
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#39re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 7:23pm
The award category "Most Likely NOT to Have Children" is utterly inappropriate for any school setting--let alone sixth graders. What on earth would compel teachers to decide that was a suitable label to put on any student. It is absolutely incredible to me that they thought a sixth grader could handle being labeled that by adults.
This wasn't name-calling by classmates. This was bullying by adults.
What possessed them to think a child would not feel hurt by it.
Teachers are supposed to set good examples for how to deal with folks who are different from yourself. The classroom is a small society and those kids are taking cues from their leaders (teachers.)
I'm appalled. Surely the class was not so large that the teachers ran out of appropriate titles for awards.
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#40re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 7:23pm
"id it occur to any of you that this boy could be showing signs that he's gay and his parents were furious that other people were bringing attention to something they'd like to ignore?"
as if that would make it ok.
Really all that matters here is how the child perceived it. And he describes being humiliated in the article.
#41re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 7:38pm
the teachers should be punished.
as bad as that award is, i dont think it's what was said that is as upsetting as the fact that they were encouraging the other students to laugh at him.
in 6th grade, i wouldn't have understood the award, but i would have been very upset and hurt at being laughed at by not only my peers, but the people who were supposed to stick up for the kids who got picked on, not further encourage it.
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#42re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 8:45pm
"On that note, did it occur to any of you that this boy could be showing signs that he's gay and his parents were furious that other people were bringing attention to something they'd like to ignore?"
Or maybe...just maybe it could be that the parents don't think their son and his sexual orientation (whatever that may be) deserve to be held up for ridicule in front of the school...by teachers. TEACHERS.
You really think this is ok? Really?
#43re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 10:16pm
Taz-keeping "the rest of the story" in mind, can you think of any scenario which would justify what these teachers did?
I even take umbrage if the teachers labeled certain students with more positive titles, like smartest, prettiest, etc. They shouldn't be pubicly singling out who they think is the best in anything.
These things are usually voted on by the other students, if they have to be done on this level at all.
#44re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 10:38pm
It would be impossible for me to condemn or condone any part of this story without all the facts. I don't know the student, the teachers or any of the history.
I'm as guilty as the next of jumping to conlusions based on half a story, and I am wrong 90% of the time I do that.
Ostensibly this seems like an outrageous incident, but as I mentioned earlier, there may several variables that we are unaware of.
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#45re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/14/07 at 11:57pm
"Had a teacher turned and made a comment like that, I would have been absolutely devastated."
Robbie, had they done that, I'm thinking Carrie woulda had nuthin' on you.
#46re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/15/07 at 9:46amTaz-I'm trying to think of something-anything-which could be the other side of the story which would justify this, and I can't. I'd also love to hear the "other side."
#47re: Sixth Grader Named 'Most Likely NOT to Have Children'
Posted: 6/15/07 at 2:30pm
Wow, A couple weeks ago I applied with that township.
I can not see any circumstance in which this "award" would be acceptable. Even if it was an inside joke it could have been worded differently so that it wasn't seen as offensive; or better yet, kept as an inside joke and the teacher and student could have privately laughed about it later and not in front of the whole class. I think that those teachers should be reprimanded and forced to apologize to the student, his parents and the other classmates who were there. They were horrible examples of how caring, respectful professionals should behave and they should have to explain to all in attendance how their behavior was absolutely inexcusable.
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