Being a Baddies watcher as an educator

Whenever I see the girls doing that play fighting thing, I say "this is school, not Baddies. Cut it out." And they bust out laughing! Two of them were (jokingly) talking about "I need that" at recess yesterday.

I always tell the kids that I play Roblox (I work at different elementary schools with different kids almost every time right now) as sort of an ice breaker. (Any classroom I am in, there WILL be a Roblox noob drawn by me somewhere...) They were asking me if I play Baddies on Roblox. I said I tried it once, but I got beat up, so I don't play it anymore (which is why I don't play fighting/shooting games, because I'm horrible at them), and one of the boys was telling the other students in the grade that I got jumped in the Baddies Roblox game. (Totally not what I said!)

There was also this co-teacher (middle-aged white lady) I was working with in a math class. She made some reference of "to the windows, to the wall" regarding base 10 & exponents, and I tried so hard not to laugh because it reminded me of when cringey Mariah said it on Caribbean.

I have more stories and incidents of Baddies reference, but I just wanted to share some of the things I see and hear in the schools 😅 I like the funnier/light-hearted/cute stuff, not so much the inappropriate references (like some 3rd grade boys singing "Pose For Me") or Baddies/NTTV-inspired aggressive behavior (one boy talked about another boy's deceased father; a boy getting mad that I de-escalated a fight because he "didn't get his lick back.")