Comments on: 8th Graders: No Longer Cooler Than Thou http://www.reschoolyourself.com/8th-graders-no-longer-cooler-than-thou Reliving my schooling. Rebooting my life. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:01:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Ide http://www.reschoolyourself.com/8th-graders-no-longer-cooler-than-thou#comment-1003 Ide Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:03:55 +0000 http://www.reschoolyourself.com/?p=1194#comment-1003 It's really interesting to hear how the bullying ebbs and flows at the same school, depending on the year. I've often wondered what kind of weird magic has to take place to have a class where kids are truly nice to each other, but it does happen. My middle school experience was drastically different from my sister's. She seemed to escape a lot of the popularity issues and bullying. Most of the kids in her class were actually younger siblings of kids in my class, so maybe they were more easygoing because of birth order. It would be interesting to see if that plays into it. I also had a lot of kids in my class who honestly had no business being at that particular school. They had a lot of behavioral, emotional and learning issues that the school just wasn't equipped to deal with, and probably would've been better served by the public school district. (I remember school got better by the middle of eighth grade because by then almost all of those kids had gotten kicked out. Sad, huh?) My sister had not nearly as many troubled kids in her class, and since they mostly came from the same families I'm not really sure how that happened. It’s really interesting to hear how the bullying ebbs and flows at the same school, depending on the year. I’ve often wondered what kind of weird magic has to take place to have a class where kids are truly nice to each other, but it does happen. My middle school experience was drastically different from my sister’s. She seemed to escape a lot of the popularity issues and bullying. Most of the kids in her class were actually younger siblings of kids in my class, so maybe they were more easygoing because of birth order. It would be interesting to see if that plays into it.

I also had a lot of kids in my class who honestly had no business being at that particular school. They had a lot of behavioral, emotional and learning issues that the school just wasn’t equipped to deal with, and probably would’ve been better served by the public school district. (I remember school got better by the middle of eighth grade because by then almost all of those kids had gotten kicked out. Sad, huh?) My sister had not nearly as many troubled kids in her class, and since they mostly came from the same families I’m not really sure how that happened.

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