To take a job working with year 9s

Y9 needs to be a year out to go home and get over yourself.

I would say that Year 9 is peak time for silly behaviour. Especially in option subjects which they have not chosen. Lots of hormones flying around.

My year 9 son is a little shit at the moment. I love him but he’s moody rude disrespectful and occasionally pleasant but has an answer for everything

I think, quite honestly, if you have to ask then you aren’t experienced or skilled enough for the job.

Dear innocent OP.

Year 9s are the worst by a country mile.

Year 9's are 100% the most challenging year group to teach, 26 years teaching experience to back that up. I am currently a y9 tutor, expect lots of boundary pushing. Teens that think they are adults but don't yet have the maturity to back it up.

Ha, ha, ha, yeah no.
They are, as has already been said, the worst year group. They're sort of stuck in the middle, can't be pathetic immature dicks like in Y7/8 but not the Billy big bollocks Y10/11's, they therefore behave like utter twats for no real reason.

I teach at bottom set Y9.

It takes a while to do the register as they can't sit still and be quiet. They lack respect for each other.

They fart. Belch out loud. Are rude to each other. Argue. Lack social skills.

But a good TA makes all the difference. Back the teacher up with behaviour management.

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Y9 have never been an easy year group. They're not mature and they're not focused... tbh some of our y11s have got 6 weeks to do a lot of growing up...

However in defence of y9, some of them do get past peak silly and begin to mature. They tend to get better as the school year progresses (unlike y7 degenerating towards the teen years and the final mutation to teenagers in y8). I find our difficult y7 & y8 classes tend to have a lot of mob mentality, whereas y9 is more segmented. There's a lot of passive resistance, but they're more focused on their friendship groups and it's easier to chip away at individuals. They're less needy and stronger members of the class are more self sufficient.

There are delightful young people in every year and every class. There are pains in the bum too, but most are still pleasant people to know. Some might resist but come round with patience and experience. Support staff often have an advatage over teachers as the friction of learning is eased. The number of actually nasty, malicious young people is a tiny proportion.

Working in secondaries is not easy. Very far from it. It needs patience, and wild optomism, but it's exciting, stimulating, satisfying and never dull. I'm far more cynical than I was when training 20+ years ago, but working with young people is still fresh and exciting.

Gd year 9 are hideous. I’ve had 3 of them. They act like dicks even my supposedly sensible and mature well behaved one who nearly finished me off with his behaviour in subjects he wasn’t interested in. The friendship dramas with the girls is something else. The boys it’s just being total idiots, pulling seats away from friends they fall over, wandering around the classroom and making stupid noises, throwing things at their friends, pulling friends trousers down. These arent lower set kids they are the ones who ended up at top unis and are now on the grad schemes / law school / accountancy route.

I work in a secondary and yr 9s are twats 🤣Well ours are anyway

Have you even met teenagers? Year 9s are awful. 😂

Not a teacher, but a mum of a Y9 (and also a Y12, so in my second Y9 stint). Y9’s are twats.

In my experience, Year 9 were hands down the worst year group. Sorry.

By Year 10, many are starting to mature...

From an ex-teacher (who left the profession after being assaulted by a year 9 student), run for the fucking hills, OP.

Year 9 is the worst year group. They’ve found their feet, hormones are raging, doing subjects they dislike before they can drop them at GCSE, and the work doesn’t count for anything.

Year 8s and 9s are the worst year groups in my experience! Sorry...

I have been a secondary school teacher for over 25 years - year 9 are the year group I would least like to be a head of year for ! Hormones galore !

Yr 9 is a strange year for education.
Many pupils know what they want to take at GCSE and stop taking an interest in the subjects that they don't want to take, normally to the detriment of the pupils that do want to take the subjects.
Behaviour problems are high due to this and many parents agree with their DC that they don't have an interest in the subject so they can mess about and not adhere to any sanctions.

I teach year 9. Top sets are a delight, but definitely not mature and lacking in any silliness!

Move your way down the sets, it gets worse and worse.

Mixed ability - even more fun!!

I also say this as the proud owner of a year 9 whose mates spend a lot of time at our house. Not a lot of maturity there and generally total dickish behaviour!

I think a lot of those who board start at year 9 because that's the age when a lot of the public schools take them from.

No. I'm mentoring a Y9 boy at a local school, and one of the things he complains about is how other boys play up in maths.

I’m not a teacher but have teacher friends and everyone of them says the same thing that Year 9s are the worst by year 11 most of them go and apologise to the teachers that had them when they were in year 9
I know my teacher friends would be screaming at this post telling you not to do it

No! They can be the worst, along year 8.

Pahahaha peak hormones.
But yes a good job if you can hack it.