Yolanda says, “My mother was sitting in the room and we had a little chat. We do this often.” “When she was little, she got her body developed early.” She “didn’t like boys to touch it.” “She wouldn’t like to hit them back.” “If they touch her diamonds, she would hit them back.” She told me, “Don’t let a boy touch you anywhere.”
The teacher asks if boys touch their butts?
The girls say, “No.”
Shimone says, “Jarvis do that,” at the dance.
Tiana says, “no names.”
The teacher says that she didn’t hear anyway.
Rebecca, who has been waiting with a raised hand, is called on and says, “How do you know if a boy hits you and they’re always hanging around, how do you know if they are a friend or they like you?”
The teacher says that the boys are giving out “mixed messages”; mixed messages are what they are talking about today.
Rebecca continues, If they give “love taps,” how you do know if they want to be a friend or really like you?
Christina responds, “Eventually they’ll tell you.”
The teacher tells them to let an adult know if a boy touches their butt.
Someone says, “Last year, boys got suspended.”
The teacher says, “Sometimes things happen so often, we think it’s acceptable.” Messages are not always clear.
Shimone says, “When boys touch girls’ butts, the girls hit them back” and the boys get angry and hit them back and “they get into a fight.”
Tiana says, There is “something called breaking ‘em.”
Shimone says, When you dance, you “beat ‘em at dancing.”
Yolanda gets up to demonstrate.  “You have to control it.” “You the lady.” She puts her hands on her head.  When you are dancing, you “have to move.”
Shimone says something about not letting them touch your “private spot.”
Others are shocked at Shimone for saying this.
Tiffany says, “Some people be glad that they’re treated like trash” and touched all over.  She continues, They “just use you for your body.” A neighbor got a woman pregnant and told her to put her baby up “on adoption.” He then could use her for—”
Tiana finishes the sentence, “sex.”
Tiffany continues, He wanted her to cook “a piece of dinner” and beat her up.
L’Neisha says, If we tell [the teachers] “every single time boys touch us sexually,” then there will be no boys left in the school.
The teacher says, I disagree, because it will send a message so they will stop.
Someone says, “Last year, people didn’t.”
Yolanda says, “Boys don’t understand the word ‘stop.’”