6th grade experiment

[Element Lord]

so i was reading something by pokemonfreak about how all the dudes in his 6th grade class have girlfriends (hopefully none of them have boyfriends). and it reminded me of a story i heard once about how these 6th grade teacher took all the kids and seperated them. one group of teachers took the girls and the other group took the boys. apparently everybody's grades went up. the classes went smoother with fewer behavioral problems. all because the children didn't have the chance to talk to people of the opposite *** (haha i said ***) during class. it was the most amazing thing I had ever heard. until a few minutes later when i heard about the two headed turtle

[Jack]

Tis not that amazing... Except the two-headed turtle thing! (Two-Headed Turtle... ROFL)

Anyway, If they did that at my school, the guys would jsut end up talking to eachpther... Same with the gals...

[Element Lord]

well at this particular school they did really good

[Jack]

Hm. Still wierd how it happens...

[Element Lord]

supposedly it only works with 6th graders

[Jack]

Might work with lower grades/years too... Doubt it with higher ones though

[Element Lord]

yeah maybe elem. kids.

[Vipershark]

No... My geom teacher was from a school like that. She said the girls did a lot better because they could answer questions easier, since there were no boys to tease them if they got it wrong. Same thing on the other end. Guys did sorta better, and girls did a lot better.

[Element Lord]

haha i guess guys in general are dumber tha women. up until the girls decide that they like clothes more than learning. after that we take over

[Invader_gir]

grade six..

funniest thing i can remember about grade six is a bunch of guys mocking me and my friend at the time and one of them placed his pencil on the corner of my friends desk while he did an impersonation of us. then when noone found it funny or clever he picked up the pencil and snapped it into little bits. then realized that it was his pencil.

also did a term on space. i like learning about space =D

i would absolutly HATE to go to an all-girls school though. would rather go to a religious school.

[Invisible Shadow]

Yeah, I used to go to a Catholic Academy, but it was only one class for each grade, 1-8, which means in our homeroom, we'd sit except to go to music, art, spanish, etc.

[Element Lord]

oh i could not TAKE that! i love moving around! i can barely take the hour and a half of classes i have. especially my third period. because my awesome band class is next.

[Some1]

so i was reading something by pokemonfreak about how all the dudes in his 6th grade class have girlfriends (hopefully none of them have boyfriends). and it reminded me of a story i heard once about how these 6th grade teacher took all the kids and seperated them. one group of teachers took the girls and the other group took the boys. apparently everybody's grades went up. the classes went smoother with fewer behavioral problems. all because the children didn't have the chance to talk to people of the opposite *** (haha i said ***) during class. it was the most amazing thing I had ever heard. until a few minutes later when i heard about the two headed turtle
Jesus Christ. Thats sucks. Not having any contact with the other gender. Even though good grades is a good thing to have it is still good to be in contact with the oppisite ***.

[Element Lord]

oh trust me we all enjoy contact with the opposite ***

[Some1]

LoL, That is true. This is basiclly the principle's view; Grades now! Learning about girls (Or boys) Later!

[Element Lord]

lol probably why *** education begins in 7th and 8th grades

[Nanaki]

i would absolutly HATE to go to an all-girls school though.

for primary school, I went to an all-boys school.
Then, at 13 (in our town) people go to the secondary school which is mixed.
That means that there's two primary schools, one of boys, one for girls, and they are separated from the age of 5, until 13.
Imo, that's fcuked up.

They tried to amalgamate them.....maybe 13 years ago, the boys' school initiated it, and the board of management for the primary schools, were up for it, there'd have been a new school built, but for some reason, the girls' school declined.

Then last year, a Gaelscoil (a school where everything is taught through Irish) opened up, and that is mixed.
It got huge enrollings, the even had to build a second floor over the summer.
If I had kids atm, in this town (and both parents were Irish) I would undoubtedly send them to the Gaelscoil, for two reasons.

1. They have contact with the opposite *** from an early age, which is a good thing, it will also help social development.

2.They are speaking Irish. That's something I feel quite strongly about atm, the party looking to take power in the government atm, are seriously considering making Irish an optional subject in secondary school (it's, obviously, compulsory atm). Imo, the language will die out completely if they do this.
Fair enough (and I can agree), few students like the subject, but it's all down to the way it's taught in primary school. Becuase of it, I had terrible Irish going into scondary school, and struggled for First Year.
They would be far, far better off putting their efforts into changing how it's taught, not doing what they are planning to do atm, which is kill of our native language entirely.
Their reasoning is becuase teenagers will be able to choose to learn it, more people will speak it, and more enthusiastically. But they are wrong: it'll be taught the same (bad) way, and more students will turn away from it, because they can dismiss it entirely as a subject, rather than not working in class.

lol, no offence guys, but it's a pity there's no other Irish people the same age as me and older here, because this really ****ing pisses me off, and (again, no offence) some slightly younger teenagers, seem to disagree with me, from the people I know anyway.

:) that's all :D

[Element Lord]

hey question? are you irish or northern irish?

[Nanaki]

^ haha :P I could talk about that too.
I am (technically speaking) from The Republic of Ireland.
But, dude, your question is so wrong.
Imo, Ireland, is Ireland - no Nothern Ireland, and Republic....
all right, maybe not that simple, but you get the idea.
Ireland (the entire island) should be ruled by the Irish.
I'm too fecin lazy to type more atm, but you should get my drift.
There's no such thing as "northern Irish" btw.
If you really want to make those kind of distinctions (not a great idea if you are in the north), then people from the Republic (born there) would be Irish.
And people from the North, that's slightly different.
If you were born there, and of Irish (norhtern or otherwise) parentage, you will probably consider yourself Irish, but born there of English parentage, you may consider yourself English...... it depends on the circumstances.
Imo, if your born there, you're still Irish... unless you have an English Birth Cert and passport.
But again, all this **** as to what nationality a person from Norhtern Ireland is all technical bullsh!t.

[Element Lord]

sorry I just heard a speaker at a thing once talking about the sort of thing you're talking about the republic and stuff but he said it was in northern ireland.

also whats atm?

[Nanaki]

It means at the moment

[Element Lord]

ok.
ur a real patriot huh? thats awesome

[Nanaki]

ok.
ur a real patriot huh? thats awesome

by any chance are you being sarcastic?

[Element Lord]

no seriously. it makes me happy to see somebody so proud of their country. not alot of them in america. not alot of reason to.

[Antownee]

^ haha :P I could talk about that too.
I am (technically speaking) from The Republic of Ireland.
But, dude, your question is so wrong.
Imo, Ireland, is Ireland - no Nothern Ireland, and Republic....
all right, maybe not that simple, but you get the idea.
Ireland (the entire island) should be ruled by the Irish.
I'm too fecin lazy to type more atm, but you should get my drift.
There's no such thing as "northern Irish" btw.
If you really want to make those kind of distinctions (not a great idea if you are in the north), then people from the Republic (born there) would be Irish.
And people from the North, that's slightly different.
If you were born there, and of Irish (norhtern or otherwise) parentage, you will probably consider yourself Irish, but born there of English parentage, you may consider yourself English...... it depends on the circumstances.
Imo, if your born there, you're still Irish... unless you have an English Birth Cert and passport.
But again, all this **** as to what nationality a person from Norhtern Ireland is all technical bullsh!t.

Here Here! Someone finally said it!

[Element Lord]

hey i still think of them as irish i was just wondering. i thought they were two different countries

[Some1]

Nope, they are not 2 different countries but I still sometimes like to think of Northren Ireland as an enclave. Kinda like Swaziland in South Africa.

By the way, I'm half irish. (Why can't I be Pure-Blood!?!?!)

[Element Lord]

because your mother disobeyed her family and married outside of the irish heritage

[Invisible Shadow]

By the way, I'm half irish. (Why can't I be Pure-Blood!?!?!)

Sometimes I ask myself the same thing, living on the emerald isle, relaxing, meeting other Irishmen. It just sounds soooo nice...

[Element Lord]

I like the dropkick murphys. thats about as irish as i can possible get. my accent is terrible.

[Nitrous]

lol probably why *** education begins in 7th and 8th grades

You should have seen the video that they showed us lads in our final year in high school! Feckin hell it might as well had been X-rated p0rn :P and the girls video was just as bad apparently when I asked about it lol

Any *** education questions you have that your school won't tell you can probably be answered by older member of the forum :P

[Element Lord]

yes because people who spend time on a video game forum have deff. all been laid.

[Dead Or Alive]

lol, I missed the day of the *** education tape, so I had to watch it agai the next day... on my own =O

Now they're trying to get 5th class people to watch it.. they've already started it in my old school

[Element Lord]

oh my a boy watching a sec education tape by himself. those are some DARING teachers

[Dead Or Alive]

lol it was really scary.
and i think all secondary schools in roscommon are mixed seckses

[Element Lord]

ha what grade are you?

[Dead Or Alive]

1st year

thats 7th grade i think (for America)

[Element Lord]

oh ok. lol i remember a video we watched in 5th grade (idk what that is in europe. i gues two years before first year)we watched a video. it was mainly about puberty. but it was just two guys and one of their brothers talking about stuff. nothing was actually shown

[Nanaki]

hey i still think of them as irish i was just wondering. i thought they were two different countries

fyi, I wasn't lashing out at you dude!
Just in case it came across like that.
If it was directed at anyone, it was the British Government, and (somewhat uselessly) Eamon De Valera.
I can explain the last one if you like, but Wikipedia may do it slightly better (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Treaty) .
my point is that De Valera himself did not attend negotiations, (therefore effectively dividing Ireland), by not being present to argue against it

Sometimes I ask myself the same thing, living on the emerald isle, relaxing, meeting other Irishmen. It just sounds soooo nice...

What the ****!?
no offence, but that's a pretty naive image of Ireland dude!!

[Element Lord]

it's cool.

[Dead Or Alive]

Sometimes I ask myself the same thing, living on the emerald isle, relaxing, meeting other Irishmen. It just sounds soooo nice...

lol no offence but that sounds so... sad XD

[Element Lord]

he's such a pawn

[Invisible Shadow]

Yes, I've been so ****ing insane lately... Shall pass soon, though being a half-irishman, never been to Ireland, my Grandparents have, they sent us some tin whistles when they were there..

[Element Lord]

ooh i bought a tin whistle once. i thought the notes were alot like my saxophone but nope

[Dead Or Alive]

pah, tinwhistles... I hate those things. And we had to play them at school for plays. When I finished primary, into the bin it went :)

[Element Lord]

we played recorders

[Dead Or Alive]

Yeah, we play recorders now in secondary school (7th Grade upwards)

[Invisible Shadow]

I'm going to play recorders, and they play recorders in primary, too.

[Element Lord]

we dont play recorders anymore. mostly because the only music classes are band and chorus and they're electives

[Invisible Shadow]

Ours is General Music, we sing, and we're going to be playing a bit of instruments, too.

[Element Lord]

i love my new saxophone. recorders PALE in comparison

[Invisible Shadow]

Damn.... If only you could record the sound into a Computer Sound File, we could hear it...

[Element Lord]

well i could like use the sound recorder on my computer...would that work?

[Deadpool]

Keep them separated for too long and you have one room full of lesbians, and the other a bunch of nancy boys.

[Element Lord]

Hahaha

[Deadpool]

Hahaha indeed.

[Element Lord]

then again it was only during classes. they could still always get their freak on during lunch and after school

[Deadpool]

They can get jiggy with a bathroom pass.

[Element Lord]

that's a sick thought...OH! you meant meeting in the bathroom. i may have taken that a little differently at first

[Deadpool]

You definitely did. :P

[Invisible Shadow]

Lol? It's funny, but I don't get what this has to do with the thread or your Bari sax.... :P

[[N]eto]

What the ****!?
no offence, but that's a pretty naive image of Ireland dude!!

Nevertheless, why are you avoiding the censor tags and cursing in public forums? You have a warning.

[Dead Or Alive]

eto']Nevertheless, why are you avoiding the censor tags and cursing in public forums? You have a warning.


owned

[Element Lord]

totally. but in regards to revan, technically this thread is about kids being seperated from each other during school

[Dead Or Alive]

yeah, not this.

[Element Lord]

hey we're human. we tend to wander away from things. it happens on alot of threads.

[Dead Or Alive]

yeah but it happens a lot here. meh, what can you do...

in my class, B, about 15 of us are boys and 6 are girls.

[Element Lord]

im in the smart classes mostly. so theres maybe one guy who im good friends with. other than that its alot of girls. thats why i love band. theres ONE girl in the low brass section.

[Invisible Shadow]

Meh, My class is about... 10 girls, 21 boys...

[Deadpool]

I don't have a class. I am free!

[Invisible Shadow]

Say WHAT? You don't have to go to school? *sobs* Man you are so damn lucky!

[Nanaki]

eto']Nevertheless, why are you avoiding the censor tags and cursing in public forums? You have a warning.

Okay, that's fair enough, I should have known not to.
I am sorry.

[Deadpool]

Say WHAT? You don't have to go to school? *sobs* Man you are so damn lucky!
I graduated 2 years ago from highschool.

[Element Lord]

my friend (who's a senior), just found out her and her fiance seperated. which sucks, but maybe she'll go to college now.idk.

[~Felly~]

Eh, my class is mostly females (excluding the teacher, who is also a female)... But that's just my homeroom class, so yeah... Although, I think almost all of my classes (except for 1st and 2nd bell) have more females than males... *shrugs* I don't get it, but meh... I personally don't care, as I'm mostly friends with girls and a couple of boys whom I joke around with. But we're not seperated... It's actually 2 girls and 2 boys at a table in my social studies class... 'Tis the same for the area I sit at in science too...

No, I am NOT a lesbian, even though I talk to more girls than boys... If you want to say something, please PM me (only because I don't want Neto yelling at me for going off topic or whatever).

[Element Lord]

something about brains. theres usually a higher percentage of girls than guys in smart classes. at least until girls discover abercrombie and fitch.

[Invader_gir]

Indeed. Alright, I'm just going to go ahead and close this as this is getting too much like the 'School Sucks' thread in trash talk. Just post in there.