Get this: Yesterday, during a pretty chaotic "Youth Speaks" class with the darling middle schoolers, 2 of my 14 year-old students were being pretty secretive about something. When I walked, over, I discovered that one of the students had brought a sandwich-size bag of condoms and was passing them to the other student. Normally, I wouldn't mind it, knowing full well that these "darling" students of mine are having sex on a regular basis. This time, however, they were creating quite a distraction and being really loud and downright dirty about the situation. So, when I told them to put the condoms away because they were aiding in the disruption of the already chaotic classroom, student one turned to me and said, "What's the matter, Miranda? You don't want 'em? I bet you like it raw, huh..."

I used every ounce of self-control that I had left in me NOT to laugh hysterically when he said it. After immediately separating him from the classroom to talk to him about the inappropriateness of his choice of words to an adult (and letting him know that if he needed to talk to someone out sex, I would find someone for him to talk to about sex--go me!) I left the classroom and busted out in laughter. I'm still laughing about it, as a matter of fact.

Ohhhh, these kids are nearly too much to handle sometimes!