you're so old

So old and so out of touch... at least that's what I have felt like recently with some of my students at school.

Last week I heard a girl mutter "you're a jerk". I immediately asked her what she was saying. She said she was singing a song. Instantly some of the other students sang along which was when I realized it was indeed a real song. I guess I have been living under a rock because a quick google search brought me to the song and the group who sings it, the new boyz. I told them I had never heard that song before. This of course was shocking to my students, how have I never heard this song before?



I told them I knew the song "cupid shuffle". Which was followed by scoffs. A girl told me, "Mrs. Kennedy (like come on...) everybody knows that!"

Then earlier this week they asked me if I liked Twilight. Which I told them yes, I 've read all the books. Then the girl follows up with "Robert Pattinson is mine!"

I reply with "who?". And she says, "Edward". Then I ask, "Why are you calling him Robert?"

Then she says, "because that's his name".



So, it took me a little too long to figure out she was referring to the actor who plays Edward in the movie. To me the Twilight series is just books, but to elementary students it is all about the movie and the actors. How silly of me.

I find both of these encounters rather humorous now. I just happened to feel incredibly old while they were happening. If I am so old and out of touch with these kids, I wonder what it is like for the other people in my building who are 12-30 years older than me?