We thought, having children of our own, we're going to ask, especially, eighth-grade boys to get up and pretend they are Anna Gould.

Jack's ill-conceived reality show billed as "25 super-hot moms, 50 eighth-grade boys, no rules."

He must recruit the parish school's eighth-grade boys, mostly African-American and Latino, to help with the weeks-long project.

Less successful was the admission of an eighth-grade boy, already left back twice.

What the girls did not realize were the poor odds: there were only 35 seventh- and eighth-grade boys, and 55 girls.

St. Sabina's seventh- and eighth-grade boys teams each won the regular season division title with identical records of 14-1.

That year, he says: "I had a crush on one particular eighth-grade boy, a very straight jock.

"Then everybody's competing for attention," said an eighth-grade boy.

This time at school, the eighth-grade boys have developed a rating system.

It was the kind of neighborhood where it seemed all the eighth-grade boys, at one time or another, considered becoming priests.