Darknovae
29-08-2006, 22:18
I haven't been getting very far on my "Persephone Skye" story, because of stuff, but here's an excerpt:
The teacher, Coach Lucas, walks in. She’s happy to see us. Maybe she’s hoping that we’re better than last year’s kids. We probably aren’t.
“Hello, new freshmen!” she says happily. Freshmen. She doesn’t seem the type to call every ninth-grader a freshman. I would have expected “freshperson” or something like that. Why didn’t the PC brigade say something about this? Didn’t they ever try to include “freshwomen”? Or “freshperson”? Do they only pay attention to the workplace and not high school? Guess not. Gah, nobody ever pays attention to teenagers with random questions on their minds. That sucks.
Coach Lucas shows us what we’re studying. Nutrition, hygiene, and finally the Stages of Life that we should have learned about in sixth grade. It’s the exact same stuff we did learn about in sixth grade… only in sixth grade we never learned about puberty or anything, the adults freaked out. Adults are so hypocritical when it comes to teaching kids stuff, seriously. When their kid reaches puberty there’s this big happy talk about “you’re becoming an adult now, you should be happy, it’s a perfectly natural thing” and then they reach 40 and freak out that they’re getting old. Around the same time they say not to be shy and not to be afraid to ask questions, but when their little babies have questions about weird developments they freak out and go “ssshhh!!!! You’re not supposed to talk about that stuff!!!!” Perhaps that’s why we needed permission slips to learn about puberty in fifth grade when most of us had already reached it and had asked already.
I've always wondered this, and since we have plenty of adults on here, maybe I can get some answers....??? This has always happened to me, my mom freaks out whenever I ask her something about "girl stuff". I don't get it- after all, she went through the same exact thing when she was 14... :confused:
The teacher, Coach Lucas, walks in. She’s happy to see us. Maybe she’s hoping that we’re better than last year’s kids. We probably aren’t.
“Hello, new freshmen!” she says happily. Freshmen. She doesn’t seem the type to call every ninth-grader a freshman. I would have expected “freshperson” or something like that. Why didn’t the PC brigade say something about this? Didn’t they ever try to include “freshwomen”? Or “freshperson”? Do they only pay attention to the workplace and not high school? Guess not. Gah, nobody ever pays attention to teenagers with random questions on their minds. That sucks.
Coach Lucas shows us what we’re studying. Nutrition, hygiene, and finally the Stages of Life that we should have learned about in sixth grade. It’s the exact same stuff we did learn about in sixth grade… only in sixth grade we never learned about puberty or anything, the adults freaked out. Adults are so hypocritical when it comes to teaching kids stuff, seriously. When their kid reaches puberty there’s this big happy talk about “you’re becoming an adult now, you should be happy, it’s a perfectly natural thing” and then they reach 40 and freak out that they’re getting old. Around the same time they say not to be shy and not to be afraid to ask questions, but when their little babies have questions about weird developments they freak out and go “ssshhh!!!! You’re not supposed to talk about that stuff!!!!” Perhaps that’s why we needed permission slips to learn about puberty in fifth grade when most of us had already reached it and had asked already.
I've always wondered this, and since we have plenty of adults on here, maybe I can get some answers....??? This has always happened to me, my mom freaks out whenever I ask her something about "girl stuff". I don't get it- after all, she went through the same exact thing when she was 14... :confused: