Actual conversation that transpired in my classroom today today:

School Security Guard: You children need to recognize that getting an education is the most important thing in life. If you don't have an education, you can't do the things you want to in life.
Student: School's boring. I don't need no education.
School Security Guard: How you gonna live? How you gonna earn money?
Student: Sell drugs.

My head went into my hands, showing my students any kind of strong emotion for the first time in a while. Remember, I teach 6th graders. They're eleven and twelve years old.