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Year 9. Ugh.

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OneOfTheGrundys · 05/02/2018 18:37

Please come and tell me your Year 9s are horrible too?

We started the year ok. Since Christmas however, they’ve turned into moody, attention sucking monsters who barely lift a pen.

It’s going to get worse before it gets better isn’t it. 😱

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hotmumma69 · 05/02/2018 18:52

They're probably hormonal and confused about many things going on in their lives

MaureenMLove · 05/02/2018 19:07

Ours arrived from yr8 pretty rough!Grin.

I do find year 9s get much worse the further the year goes on though. Mainly because they start to realise some of the option subjects, they aren't taking, so don't bother. We've tried to stop this by bringing the new academic year in, after yr11 have gone at half term. It not worked effectively since the first year though, because now the year 9s are worse even earlier in the year because they know they become yr 10 at the end of May!

There are no solutions, but I feel your pain.

MirandaWest · 05/02/2018 19:09

I possess a year 9 boy. I am sure that while he is generally nice, he is probably a pain at school an amount of the time Blush

Abra1de · 05/02/2018 19:09

From a parental point of view, it certainly seemed a lot of them became, erm, challenging in this year.

monkeysox · 05/02/2018 21:13

Y9 are usually twats. Hth
Flowers

GoJohnnyGoGoGoGo · 05/02/2018 21:27

Now they're thinking about their options many of them have switched off as they're not picking my subject. I'll continue to be enthusiastic as possible but it's bloody hard going.

TheMathsTrainee · 05/02/2018 22:07

Year 9 s are emotional vampires that suck the life blood out of you.

mineofuselessinformation · 05/02/2018 22:16

IME, starts with girls in Yr 8, then graduates to boys in Yr 9.
'Tis all the hormones.
Not that hard any help, sorry! Smile

Dermymc · 05/02/2018 22:16

Year 9 is the year you need to be sent home and told to get over yourself.

mineofuselessinformation · 05/02/2018 22:17

'that's', not 'hard'....
Bloody autocorrect.

AppleKatie · 05/02/2018 22:19

They are a tale of two half’s at my school.

Half lovely. The other hell on earth.

And I should know I have to teach six sets of the little charmers 😲

Wolfiefan · 05/02/2018 22:23

Six sets?
Have some Wine or maybe Gin
Thank fuck I don't teach any more and DS is doing GCSE.
I'm not looking forward to a Y9 DD though. Teachers. I'm sorry. Shock

PumpkinPie2016 · 06/02/2018 06:20

Mine are driving me mad at the moment! So whiny, moody and dramatic over random things!

They are a top set but their work rate compared to my Y10 too set last year is really poor.

This week, they are counting down to half term and are switchig off from learning already! Yesterday's lesson felt like whack a mole!

I'm hoping they will start to merge into reasonable people over the next term!

WeKnowFrogsGoShaLaLaLaLa · 06/02/2018 08:00

The first time I had a tutor group hit Yr 9, I remember sitting there silently thinking I didn’t like a single one of them anymore.

Now I tell them they’re being horrible and we can all be friends again when they’re in Yr10. 😂

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OneOfTheGrundys · 06/02/2018 10:16

So good to know I’m not the only one! They’re just so... rambunctious! Whack a mole sums it up beautifully. After 14 years of teaching on and off, they can still de-skill me.
And according to them, they ‘actually behave quite well’ for me. I dread to think what they’re like elsewhere!
Parents evening soon though. What’s the betting the parents the department really want to meet face to face won’t show!? Grin

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OneOfTheGrundys · 06/02/2018 10:25

6 sets Shock
How do you do it!
I know there are lovely humans in there somewhere but 6 whole groups of what I went through yesterday would finish me.
You well deserve this half term.

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sashh · 06/02/2018 10:46

This is a tradition though isn't it. When I was a kid it was third years, no teacher liked teaching them.

AppleKatie · 06/02/2018 13:42

I do it to pay the mortgage not fun! The joys and consequences of being forced to teach a second subject.

I always seem to get the really special ones for both subjects too. Makes for an interesting/exhausting/ridiculous parents evening as well...

AppleKatie · 06/02/2018 13:44

When I finally get to a sixth form class it feels like Christmas 😃

Every year I’m told the situation is just ‘for one more year’ so I live in hope.

Bringmejavabringmejoy · 06/02/2018 17:39

I think they should be allowed to drop subjects at the end of Yr8

DD has hated geography, ICT, RE and DT since she started high school. She's in Yr8 now and dreads another year and a half of those subjects.

Rosieposy4 · 06/02/2018 18:03

Apple, sixth sets, you poor buggar !
I have 2 very ropey sets, with lots of poor behaviour. Hoping some of them might grow up before next term when we start the GCCE course.

DakotaFanny · 06/02/2018 18:06

Year 9 are grim: unpredictable, obsessed with the opposite sex and too far away from exams to care. I dread seeing mine every day!

DakotaFanny · 06/02/2018 18:07

Actually, to be fair, I have some absolutely delightful kids in my group but their looks of pity and despair only expound my feelings of inadequacy. Apart from this group, my classes run (pretty much) like clockwork.

OpheliaLeghorn · 06/02/2018 18:10

I love this thread. One of mine is in Y9. I need say no more than that.

Goldrill · 06/02/2018 21:53

My year nines are lovely! Year ten utterly dreadful - maybe they grow up later round here!