Kids Say The Darndest Things - And Then Some

I don't know off hand which part of the psycho-sexual developmental stages kids realize that having a sub in the room is the same as not having any adults in the room. What I do know is that it leads to some very interesting conversations by the students, and even more interesting and disturbing things for the sub to overhear if they're even remotely observant.

Before I started subbing, I heard all the statistics (and as I'm way too lazy to look these up, these may not be accurate). One in 4 kids has had sex by the age of 16. 1 in 7 by 14. 1 in 10 by 11. That seems ridiculous, especially as someone in his mid twenties who remembers the time when by senior year only about half the kids weren't virgins (again, probably not accurate, but that's how I remember it).  I didn't believe that all this was really going on, and you probably don't either. Its not like they haven't used statistics to lie in plain sight. However, let me assure you, its all true.

In high school, its rampant. Just walking through the halls there are kids sucking face in a way that would be over done in a porno, and every snippet of conversation you hear is "she sucked my d*%&" or "her p*$$@ was so wet" etcetera. Now, these things in of themselves could be dismissed as guys just trying to act cool in front of their buddies. However, I have yet to be in a high school classroom where there wasn't at least one group of girls (usually 4 or 5 of them) talking to each other about their experience last night or last weekend.

Even in middle school I hear it. Girls talking about their first time. Guys talking about how good a chick was. How she spits or swallows. And not just in the I-want-to-be-cool-and-fit-in way.

Sex isn't the only issue. Realistically, its a consequence of the other issues. I hear middle school kids talking about what kind of drinks they like. And they don't just say "beer" or "rum". They talk about long islands, whiskey sour, jager-bombs, etc. Smoking is rampant. They talk about going to parties and getting trashed. Kids come into class hungover (in middle school even). And its not like this is a very select group of real losers. It could be as much as 50 to 60 percent of a class talking about it.

Ultimately its the parents who are to blame. Why are they so incapable of keeping track of their kids? If I had come home hungover my parents sure as hell would have noticed, and had my head for it. Parents are afraid to punish their kids now. Kids know that there is nothing that there parents will actually do, so the kids don't even try to please them. I've heard kids talk about hitting their moms and throwing things at their dads.

The problem is where this leads. Even if it was just high school kids, that would be 4 years worth of births that were useless. Even if it was just 6th through 12th grade, that's almost a whole generation. The bigger issue is that with so much stupidity, comes a whole new level of problems. These morons are breeding new, and probably even bigger, morons. I had a kid in a sophomore reading class show me a picture of his son and said "We're expecting another one now, and I'm really hoping its a girl."

Why is this ok? Why is the only thing we hear about clips on the news about teenage sex statistics, birth statistics, underage drinking statistics? Where does this current trend lead our country?

In two words: To hell.