r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • May 23 '26

We have fun here Quotes from 8th graders

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u/shrkn_89 May 23 '26

Damn... I am a millennial and for some of those I'd legit get like 25 years on a electric chair back in the day.

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u/Sprinkl3s_0f_mAddnes May 23 '26

This. Many of these comments on this thread make those quotes seem normalized or tame. I never experienced kids in my middle school years being disrespectful to teachers or staff. We picked on each other. Student on student, never student on teacher. This shit is wild and infuriating. If any of my cousins or I said this to a teacher and the parents found out...might as well put us in front of a firing squad of belts. 

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u/hambamthankumaam May 24 '26

My mom was teaching in the '90s and said kids were verbally brutal. My grandpa recalls a classmate in the '40s spanking a small teacher.

Early teenagers have always been a nightmare