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I'm so sorry Kids can be such assholes.

I used to teach Junior high/high school in a " challenging" school and I can definitely relate.

Keying your car is a pretty fucked up thing to do.

@lizzywiz: Someone keyed your car?! That's awful!!

I'm still haunted by some of the mean things I did as a kid. None of them are particularly bad, but I feel really bad for hurting feelings. Mostly like what you just said - my mom would try to do something nice or buy me something and I'd be snotty about it.
I don't remember *what* happened, but I have a memory of walking in on my mom crying after being particularly mean to her in elementary school - still breaks my heart

@lizzywiz: Oh I very rarely respond constructively myself.

@lizzywiz: I am so sorry that that happened to you. Definitely try not to take it to heart, since most teens don't really care about anything but themselves.

The thing that hurt me recently was when my cousin's daughter told me that I needed to clean up my house before H started walking because it was really messy. She also told me she didn't like the food I cooked. I had worked really hard to get the house clean and clutter picked up for H's party, and it really bothered me at the time. Our house is a lot smaller than hers, and I know I shouldn't pay attention to what a four-year-old says, but it burned.

I believe keying your car is beyond mean. I think that's a terrible, aggressive, and extremely
rude thing to do. Those kids have issues! I am so sorry that happened to you.

@lizzywiz: I saw this earlier, but was at work and had a class coming in, so I couldn't respond till now. Keying your car is criminal offense. Did you tell your principal?

On the subject of kids being mean---YES. I've worked as either a teacher or school librarian for 11 years now and I've had my share of mean comments. One was from my first year teaching and I still remember it because I couldn't believe who it came from. I had an 8th grade student who was like, a star straight-A student. I taught the gifted program at that point, so I had him in one class and his 6th grade sister in another class and they were secretly my favorite, favorite kids.

Both of their parents worked till at least 5 and they didn't like going home alone, so they'd come to my classroom almost every single day after school and hang out until I went home (usually around 4:30-5). I would give them candy, let them hang out...we would talk about all kinds of stuff and play geography games. I coached him for the Scripps Howard spelling bee--for free!--many, many hours a week *including* the three saturdays before the regional bee (I should specify..this was because his parents asked me too, because english was their second language).

And then I guess some of his friends started teasing him about having a crush on me, since he was always in my room after school--and this embarrassed him. So he wrote this note to like, 5 friends (who were all my students), saying he didn't have a crush on me because I was WHORE. That was the exact word he used. He said plenty of other bad things, but that was the worst. This was a *very* religious muslim boy and both he and his sister were somewhat sheltered, so I'm not entirely sure he knew what it meant, just that it was bad.

Well, his friends--being the little gifted goody-goodies they were--immediately turned it in. To me. And I had the pleasure (not) of showing my principal, calling his parents (cringe) and giving him 3 day of after school detention with the vice principal. Because nothing says fun like calling two devout muslim parents during Ramadan to tell them their son called his teacher a whore.

What fun. Of course, he didn't make one peep in my class for the rest of the year and never came in my room again after school

But luckily, his sister was still awesome and was one of my favorites until she went to HS.