Oh the drama!
"If she takes my man, I'm gonna beat her up."
"You watch your back!"
"Then he said....Then she said..."
The following are actual sentences heard in the 7th grade hall yesterday and today. Now, scream these as fast as you can at the top of your voice with 30 other kids talking loudly at the same time and you'll know what it was like.
There is going to be a fight today. The question now is when and where. And if adults will be involved. Some parent's of the kid's involved showed up, and were going around asking for another one of the kids. That's all we need now is the parent's getting into a cat fight.
It amazes me how much these girl's fight over someone taking "their man". They don't seem to get that the man and the friend aren't worth anything if they'll cheat on you. But in this income group, taking someone's man is the cardinal sin. You can rob them blind and they will probably forgive you, but you mess up a relationship, your a** is getting whooped.
We won't even go into the fact that these kids shouldn't be worrying about love right now. But it's a status thing to have a girlfriend or boyfriend. Maybe it's there way of saying "somebody cares about me".
So, hopefully I will have a nice little post about the great knock down drag out fight. I'll be glad when it's over and the tension is gone.
posted by Lenice @ Friday, December 03, 2004
2 Comments:
The more I deal with these kids, the more it breaks my heart. But the more I can see them changing, if only so slightly. And those changes, for them, are huge. It is rewarding, to help them.
Some of it is probably because of a lack of parental influence. To be honest, most of their problems can be tracked to that. Also alot of these girls don't have a dad at home. This probably also increases their desire to "keep their man".
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