To be fair, behavior issues are very, very common in children with good grades. Not because the children are bad at heart, they just don't feel challenged in school and are bored because they already did the work or learned what the other kids are learning. Throughout Elementary School and Middle School, I got A Grades. In High School, my grades plummeted. Through my whole time in school, I had behavior issues. It was because I was bored out of my mind and a minute in class felt like an hour. That is why I read so much, it kept me well behaved and my mind occupied in class. Same thing happenned when I was in College
I did well at my first school. Teachers taught us to our individual needs and learning styles. Few years later when we had to go to public school, my grades plummeted. I couldn't adjust to the teaching methods. I was expected to do the work Their way and if I couldn't, I'd get an F. With the exception of English/Reading and Choir/Music classes I always got D's and F's on my grade cards. Math was the worst. Bloody nightmare.
@@Sk8rToon I did weird doodles. No specific form, no straight lines... And colored them in. Apparently my "art" was deemed too weird by my classmates. To this day I can't draw a straight line to save my life. These days I obsess over letters and specific shapes. Best not to give me a notepad, I'll go through that thing..page after page after page, filling every nook and cranny till it's full. 50 sheets of paper, two sides..100 pages of the letter g, the number 8, o shapes and I'll get obsessed with the perfect one (imo) from each row... I'll go through it and then my fingers will hurt like a Dickens..and zonk out if I've been at it for several hours.
I remember Sara using a belt to bend me over the table and spanked me in front of the whole school multiple times and then if I forgot to tell mom and dad that she spanked me then she would tell them on Sunday at church and then I would get another spanking even worse at home😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yup, sounds like my school days back in the 80s. I never got spanked in school, but my younger sister did at our first school. She had to finish her letters (alphabet) and decided to go outside to play during recess. She learned that lesson real quick. She made me promise not to say anything to Mom and Dad, but Mrs. Uhl (principal) called em up and that was that. Another round for sis for deception. She never pulled that stunt again. Alas, she did have her name put on the paddle at school. So a paddle at school and the switch at home. That happened in our first year at the school. I had just turned 6 and she was 4. We were both in first grade. And no, we didn't have kindergarten. Never even heard of it until we started public school a few years later.
I got the ruler when I bit a kid- first grade, I think. He stole my pencil. I went home, early, had to stay in my room, and got the spoon when dad came home. No more biting for me!
Grandmother got us with the switch when we was poaching plums or apples, grandfather got us with a leather strop for grandmother catching us, mama got us with the wood spoon for grandfather havin to get us with the strop and daddy got us with the belt for havin to listen to mama complaining about us haha.
I agree with her. I quit babysitting most of the kids I knew. When my mother asked why, I said you want grandkids, if I keep babysitting these kids, that'll never happen! 😂
I have all of my grade cards grades 1 - 12 plus my 3 1/2 years of college. I attended a 1 room country school grades 1 - 8 , same fantastic teacher, Mrs Mae, for all 8 years. She was married but never had children.( At that time, there was no such thing as kindergarten in my area).She kept in contact with me until she passed away., I am past 77 years of age. A total different era to have grown up in & experienced....
That is so cool! I have SO MANY THINGS FROM MY GRANDPARENTS that have been passed down… journals diplomas etc… I was definitely born in the wrong era… I kept all my kids report cards etc but they couldn’t care less. lol I have No idea what I THEYLL do with the stuff I’ve got and honestly don’t want to know I’m sure.
@@Tlittau3944 THANK YOU for the comment! I unfortunately have no family so am sure all of my one room school days report cards, yearly group school pictures, & etc. Will be destroyed some day! Have an awesome day!
You were a very intelligent young man. I think most kids around that age are rebellious. I remember in 8 th grade I refused to take gym class. Iwould sit on 5he stairs and told my gym teacher 5o just “ give me an F” she asked me one day “ Are you the middle child?” Yes I am I told her. I have 2 older and 2 younger brothers, My gym teacher said “ I knew it you’re the problem child”.😳 I really was Not the problem child. I got good grades too except for gym.I went to Church every Sunday.I really was a good girl but I was going thru a “ rebellious stage”. I really hated that they wanted us to shower together in one big room. IThere was no privacy. I didn’t want to undress and shower with 20 other girls. I was really timid and shy. I didn’t want to say that as the reason . I just refused to participate.I was also clumsy. The thought of going on a gymnastics beam terrified me. I never could climb a rope, I was not athletic . She just wrote me off as being a “ problem middle child”. I don’t know if gym classes are still like that. To this day like at the gym. I never want to shower around a bunch of women , EWE.- ithink that almost every kid around that age are rebellious. You are Hilarious Mr Eli Yoder.. I could just imagine you4 teacher saying ; “ not another year of this Yoder boy ! 😱😱🤣🤣🤣
Pretty sure that's how I passed French and chemistry class. Lol. If the class didn't interest me I was a clown and the teachers didn't want another semester of me😜
You certainly seem to be a hard working kind good man with better than average observation skills. From you're observations and mine, I will interpret that their are lots of similarities in women inside and outside of the Amish order. Both can be difficult if you've picked the wrong one. Currently in the western culture, many men are avoiding marriage because of the possibility of being fleesed by the women that are less committed to keep a life long marriage. My wife of 40yrs passed two years ago and the pickings are quite slim for enjoyable companionship. Marriage is off the table for me at my age, but I enjoy stories of your journey and your strength and commitment to family values. Blessngs and joy to you and your family...
People think that Mennonite and Amish go to public schools like the English children do. When I tell them that Mennonites and Amish only go up to the 8th grade and our lessons are different then the lessons their kids are learning. Mennonite we had to learn English spelling and English math and English writing. We had learned Pennsylvania Dutch spelling and reading and learning how to speak Pennsylvania Dutch. My mennonite dad was our homeschool teacher.
Yes. How would they not be? They interact with the "english" world. The English world has them. Cancer is not transmissable and due to incest being a thing in amish communities they're at higher risk of cancer. As for transmissable illnesses yeah they can contract and illness from the "english" world. I live in amish country and my husband drives for amish.
I went to school with a few Amish kids at my first school. One of my classmates and closest friends was named Heather Mosier (not sure on spelling of last name - it's been 40 years) My last year at that school she developed scarlet fever and died. Her older sister wasn't the same after that. She never talked about her youngest sister and she got mean. It felt like she was mad at her family, but none of us could really approach her. Sad really - it was almost like she wasn't allowed to grieve and was expected to continue school regardless of what happened. It's a memory that will always stay with me. That was the school year of 84-85.
@@kenjacobs3821 nononono. Last thing I want is fame. I want to stay as a recluse. I value my solitude. I was rummaging through one of my last remaining school photos. (Lost a lot in a twister). Heather is sitting right next to me without her bonnet on. There were only 18 of us back in the early 80s. By the time the school was actually fully built (about 6 years after I left) they had over 200. Heather was a red head. I assume her older sister Becky was as well, but she kept her hair hidden at all times.
I just moved to Center, Ky. My friend and neighbor says there is a family of Amish Yoders near our new place. Any relation to you or is Yoder a common Amish last name?
Wait so you're multi lingual? that's badass, do you have a job where you can leverage that? Or is Amish German different than modern German? Or do you just not involve yourself with it anymore?
If an amish woman chooses promiscuous sex she is shunned. If she has a child out of wedlock she is shunned and her child is taken and given to a married couple to raise in most cases. Of corse it varies from sector to sector and location to location but promiscuity and out of wedlock pregnancies are frowned upon. But yes either they can choose to remain vergins and never marry or they can marry and have children. There is an exception to this rule and that is rumspringa. This is like a sweet 16 thing where a child of the age of 16 can go out into the "English" world and practice "English" culture with out consequences to decide weather they wish to stay in the English world or go back to their amish ways. If they choose to go back to their amish ways all the "sin" they participated in is forgiven. If they choose the "English" lifestyle, much like this man's experience, they get disowned. If a girl gets pregnant on her rumspringa she has the baby and the baby is raised by a married couple as though it isn't her child. Sometimes her own parents raise her child and she is forced to refer to her child as her sister/brother.
JESUS loves us all, but he is a righteous judge and sin is still wrong even though he loves us. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."
She did not like Yoder's that is why she never gotmarried She was smart what she did She was a modern teacher She new what she wanted To do in life smart school Teacher but who knows if Was a virgin or Not😊😊😊😊 Teacher
The only way she wouldn't be a vergin is if during rumspringa when she was 16 she got away with promiscuous sex with a boy during a time where promiscuous sex was not only heavily frowned upon but often got you disowned by your family in the "english" world.
You helped Miss Sarah make good life choices.
🤣🤣💯💯💯😂
45 year old virgin Amish teacher… lolol
Sounds a lifetime movie
"The Trials of Sarah: Teacher of the Yoders"
I'm a 47 year old virgin. Can't have sex. I'm a natural born eunuch.
😂😂😂
I'm searching for the yoder family saga video right now!!❤
@@TwoPartyIllusion make sure to share the link if you have it lol
This gents laugh is heartwarming. Gods bless him and you all!
To be fair, behavior issues are very, very common in children with good grades. Not because the children are bad at heart, they just don't feel challenged in school and are bored because they already did the work or learned what the other kids are learning. Throughout Elementary School and Middle School, I got A Grades. In High School, my grades plummeted. Through my whole time in school, I had behavior issues. It was because I was bored out of my mind and a minute in class felt like an hour. That is why I read so much, it kept me well behaved and my mind occupied in class. Same thing happenned when I was in College
Interesting, I had the exact same experience.
I did well at my first school. Teachers taught us to our individual needs and learning styles.
Few years later when we had to go to public school, my grades plummeted. I couldn't adjust to the teaching methods. I was expected to do the work Their way and if I couldn't, I'd get an F. With the exception of English/Reading and Choir/Music classes I always got D's and F's on my grade cards.
Math was the worst. Bloody nightmare.
Teachers let me draw in class to keep me sane. Now I work in animation!
@@Sk8rToon I did weird doodles. No specific form, no straight lines... And colored them in. Apparently my "art" was deemed too weird by my classmates.
To this day I can't draw a straight line to save my life. These days I obsess over letters and specific shapes. Best not to give me a notepad, I'll go through that thing..page after page after page, filling every nook and cranny till it's full.
50 sheets of paper, two sides..100 pages of the letter g, the number 8, o shapes and I'll get obsessed with the perfect one (imo) from each row... I'll go through it and then my fingers will hurt like a Dickens..and zonk out if I've been at it for several hours.
Interesting. How did you recover your grades in high school and college?
I remember Sara using a belt to bend me over the table and spanked me in front of the whole school multiple times and then if I forgot to tell mom and dad that she spanked me then she would tell them on Sunday at church and then I would get another spanking even worse at home😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
There's men out there who would pay for that treatment these days 😂
Catholic School back when I went was pretty much the same!! Sometimes worse!! 😮
Yup, sounds like my school days back in the 80s. I never got spanked in school, but my younger sister did at our first school. She had to finish her letters (alphabet) and decided to go outside to play during recess. She learned that lesson real quick.
She made me promise not to say anything to Mom and Dad, but Mrs. Uhl (principal) called em up and that was that. Another round for sis for deception.
She never pulled that stunt again. Alas, she did have her name put on the paddle at school. So a paddle at school and the switch at home.
That happened in our first year at the school. I had just turned 6 and she was 4. We were both in first grade.
And no, we didn't have kindergarten. Never even heard of it until we started public school a few years later.
I got the ruler when I bit a kid- first grade, I think. He stole my pencil. I went home, early, had to stay in my room, and got the spoon when dad came home. No more biting for me!
Grandmother got us with the switch when we was poaching plums or apples, grandfather got us with a leather strop for grandmother catching us, mama got us with the wood spoon for grandfather havin to get us with the strop and daddy got us with the belt for havin to listen to mama complaining about us haha.
The rebellious Yoder.
I agree with her. I quit babysitting most of the kids I knew. When my mother asked why, I said you want grandkids, if I keep babysitting these kids, that'll never happen! 😂
I have all of my grade cards grades 1 - 12 plus my 3 1/2 years of college. I attended a 1 room country school grades 1 - 8 , same fantastic teacher, Mrs Mae, for all 8 years. She was married but never had children.( At that time, there was no such thing as kindergarten in my area).She kept in contact with me until she passed away., I am past 77 years of age. A total different era to have grown up in & experienced....
That is so cool! I have SO MANY THINGS FROM MY GRANDPARENTS that have been passed down… journals diplomas etc… I was definitely born in the wrong era… I kept all my kids report cards etc but they couldn’t care less. lol I have No idea what I THEYLL do with the stuff I’ve got and honestly don’t want to know I’m sure.
@@Tlittau3944 THANK YOU for the comment! I unfortunately have no family so am sure all of my one room school days report cards, yearly group school pictures, & etc. Will be destroyed some day! Have an awesome day!
Maybe the F was for FABULOUS!? 🤔
You were a very intelligent young man. I think most kids around that age are rebellious. I remember in 8 th grade I refused to take gym class. Iwould sit on 5he stairs and told my gym teacher 5o just “ give me an F” she asked me one day “ Are you the middle child?” Yes I am I told her. I have 2 older and 2 younger brothers, My gym teacher said “ I knew it you’re the problem child”.😳 I really was Not the problem child. I got good grades too except for gym.I went to Church every Sunday.I really was a good girl but I was going thru a “ rebellious stage”. I really hated that they wanted us to shower together in one big room. IThere was no privacy. I didn’t want to undress and shower with 20 other girls. I was really timid and shy. I didn’t want to say that as the reason . I just refused to participate.I was also clumsy. The thought of going on a gymnastics beam terrified me. I never could climb a rope, I was not athletic . She just wrote me off as being a “ problem middle child”. I don’t know if gym classes are still like that. To this day like at the gym. I never want to shower around a bunch of women , EWE.- ithink that almost every kid around that age are rebellious. You are Hilarious Mr Eli Yoder.. I could just imagine you4 teacher saying ; “ not another year of this Yoder boy ! 😱😱🤣🤣🤣
Hi Eli. I'm curious about your history class. Were you taught about where/when/why the Amish started?
History only consisted of our local country in the states and how it was founded
@@eliyoder491 Nothing about the beginnings?
@@eliyoder491
You mean your local COUNTY history right?
@@amirahal-wehbiNo US history.
lol. I love your channel.
Pretty sure that's how I passed French and chemistry class. Lol. If the class didn't interest me I was a clown and the teachers didn't want another semester of me😜
No Yoder left behind.😂❤😂
Been right there!
Lol.. that looked just like my one room schoolhouse report card from 8th grade...
My spouse swears that's the only reason they were allowed to graduate. 😂
She was like "I'll take my chances amongst the worldy".... only for you to later join the worldly. 😂
I had the same thing happen with an algebra teacher.
Non-Amish Teachers pass kids for the same reason.
Right on brother Yoder!
You certainly seem to be a hard working kind good man with better than average observation skills.
From you're observations and mine, I will interpret that their are lots of similarities in women inside and outside of the Amish order. Both can be difficult if you've picked the wrong one.
Currently in the western culture, many men are avoiding marriage because of the possibility of being fleesed by the women that are less committed to keep a life long marriage.
My wife of 40yrs passed two years ago and the pickings are quite slim for enjoyable companionship. Marriage is off the table for me at my age, but I enjoy stories of your journey and your strength and commitment to family values.
Blessngs and joy to you and your family...
I can totally relate., LOL
I still have all my report cards from kindergarten thru twelveth grade. I'm 58yrs old😂
That's awesome Eli my goodness you are funny
People think that Mennonite and Amish go to public schools like the English children do. When I tell them that Mennonites and Amish only go up to the 8th grade and our lessons are different then the lessons their kids are learning. Mennonite we had to learn English spelling and English math and English writing. We had learned Pennsylvania Dutch spelling and reading and learning how to speak Pennsylvania Dutch. My mennonite dad was our homeschool teacher.
Marked/grades from behaviour don’t count toward whether you pass or not. Only your marks in school subjects do :)
Love the channel.
Quick question: are chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes, and even Covid in the Amish community?
Yes. How would they not be? They interact with the "english" world. The English world has them. Cancer is not transmissable and due to incest being a thing in amish communities they're at higher risk of cancer. As for transmissable illnesses yeah they can contract and illness from the "english" world. I live in amish country and my husband drives for amish.
I went to school with a few Amish kids at my first school. One of my classmates and closest friends was named Heather Mosier (not sure on spelling of last name - it's been 40 years)
My last year at that school she developed scarlet fever and died. Her older sister wasn't the same after that. She never talked about her youngest sister and she got mean. It felt like she was mad at her family, but none of us could really approach her. Sad really - it was almost like she wasn't allowed to grieve and was expected to continue school regardless of what happened.
It's a memory that will always stay with me. That was the school year of 84-85.
@@Tmhjr_Baskar Thanks for sharing that story. One of those stories that would be a good movie.
@@kenjacobs3821 nononono. Last thing I want is fame. I want to stay as a recluse. I value my solitude.
I was rummaging through one of my last remaining school photos. (Lost a lot in a twister). Heather is sitting right next to me without her bonnet on.
There were only 18 of us back in the early 80s. By the time the school was actually fully built (about 6 years after I left) they had over 200.
Heather was a red head. I assume her older sister Becky was as well, but she kept her hair hidden at all times.
I just moved to Center, Ky. My friend and neighbor says there is a family of Amish Yoders near our new place. Any relation to you or is Yoder a common Amish last name?
Wait so you're multi lingual? that's badass, do you have a job where you can leverage that? Or is Amish German different than modern German? Or do you just not involve yourself with it anymore?
Rebellious Yoder sounds like a classic rock band.
Can you shed some light on German spoken in PA vs in Texas vs in Germany. Are they all mutually intelligible?
Thats probably why i passed elementary school
I didn't realize that Amish women had the choice whether to get married or not - interesting!
If an amish woman chooses promiscuous sex she is shunned. If she has a child out of wedlock she is shunned and her child is taken and given to a married couple to raise in most cases. Of corse it varies from sector to sector and location to location but promiscuity and out of wedlock pregnancies are frowned upon. But yes either they can choose to remain vergins and never marry or they can marry and have children. There is an exception to this rule and that is rumspringa. This is like a sweet 16 thing where a child of the age of 16 can go out into the "English" world and practice "English" culture with out consequences to decide weather they wish to stay in the English world or go back to their amish ways. If they choose to go back to their amish ways all the "sin" they participated in is forgiven. If they choose the "English" lifestyle, much like this man's experience, they get disowned. If a girl gets pregnant on her rumspringa she has the baby and the baby is raised by a married couple as though it isn't her child. Sometimes her own parents raise her child and she is forced to refer to her child as her sister/brother.
🤣❤
You are so hilarious
45 year old Virgi, iis the hottest thing I've ever heard!!!
😁
Maybe she was the bishops side chick 😂
😂😂
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F is for fantastic
Are you absolutely sure that you’re 45-year-old teacher wasn’t disappointed in you because you didn’t help her with the virgin thing?
Arent all women supposed to marry?
What are the exceptions
Hahahahahahaha
JESUS loves us all, but he is a righteous judge and sin is still wrong even though he loves us. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."
She did not like Yoder's that is why she never gotmarried
She was smart what she did
She was a modern teacher
She new what she wanted
To do in life smart school
Teacher but who knows if
Was a virgin or Not😊😊😊😊
Teacher
The only way she wouldn't be a vergin is if during rumspringa when she was 16 she got away with promiscuous sex with a boy during a time where promiscuous sex was not only heavily frowned upon but often got you disowned by your family in the "english" world.