Middle School

Deleted • 14 September 2013 at 12:09 AM

Okay this topic is and was made for 2 reasons.
1.Learn other people's boredom and bad deeds in middle school
2.Regarding questions about children approaching middle school and/or kids in middle school.


And eggcavers,I have been thinking about this for a long time...Why do middle schoolers start disrespecting their parents?Is it because it is immature for parents to hug or do something?

Back then middle school was a MESS.It was really nasty,I had a very,very,very boring core teacher.Thats for 6th grade

metaphor • 14 September 2013 at 12:26 AM

@rosamund


7th grade wasn't bad for me; it was 8th grade that was a nightmare for me, emotionally and mentally speaking.

And I think the whole disrespectful behavior is a kind of "I'm independent, you can't stop me" thing, but I'm not really sure. I honestly kind of skipped that stage because I was unusually dependent upon my mother. I have a sister in middle school who's going through that phase now, though. She's not as bad as some kids I've seen.

mightyeglantine • 14 September 2013 at 12:50 AM

@rosamund @metaphor
My middle school experience wasn't the best but wasn't the worst, the medias make it seem like you are going to die. I was actually really nervous when I entered the beginning of school but I communicated A LOT with my teachers and developed quiet a group of enemies and bullies, which means I also developed some pretty good defense and social reflecting mechanisms like Growing my fingernails long and pointing them, yelling at people in foreign languages (Danish and Japanese helped the most~) and being associated with the other crazy kids who just want to survive the day without attacking someone well I achieved this by making some friends who were a little crazy and had almost no filter once it came to self-defense so people tended to stay away from us or completely ignore us(Which we were perfectly fine with both~) we sat in corners and yelled at eachother in foreign languages (Which we understood of course~) and hardly ever ate and grew our fingernails long and made them pointy (Which caused some of the dumber kids to call us Vampires and Werewolves and say we were some kind of special cult, which we were fine with~) My friends colored their hair bright, extravagant colors and patterns.

I'm a freshman in highschool this year and I kinda already skipped the Disrespect stage in middle school mostly because I was already very independent but my parent didn't really get involved with my stuff. But my little sister who is in 6th grade now is mommy's little Angel but my mother is seeing that she isn't all that she is thought to be. My mother learned that she curses has kissed boys has dated MULTIPLE boys one of which was in 7th grade when she was in 4th grade, We are only 5 weeks in and my sis already has an F and four C's. but I have all A's.

Deleted • 14 September 2013 at 12:53 AM

@mightyeglantine

Yeah I get you.My core teacher was so Uggh.Did you color your hair like them?

Deleted • 14 September 2013 at 4:59 AM

@mightyeglantine

I'm glad that I'm not the only person who sharpened their nails in school. 😉

I started in 8th grade by accident after I chipped my nail on a gym locker and just filed it to go with it (I had already grown them so long that one short one would look weird) and when it scared a kid that liked to pick on me I just started pointing all of them... and scratched the crap out of anyone who tried to mess with me. I continued that through high school and was known as "that girl with the long pointy nails" if anyone ever noticed me at all. I wasn't very social in middle school or high school so few people really knew me by name, or at all.
The weird thing is that some of the people that did know me by name just hung around me because of my nails. I found it so weird because I had designed them to keep people away, not attract them!

But yeah, after I graduated I never really had reason to keep them sharp any more so I just grow them out naturally now.

@rosamund

Yeaah middle school was absolutely horrible for me. Actually all of school was but 6th and 7th grade were by far the worst years of middle school for me. I was constantly picked on because I was the new kid in 6th grade and I never really made friends until 8th.

originalroxieana • 14 September 2013 at 8:11 AM

@rosamud well middle school is like high school but more to teach you how high school is like. I went in middle school in grade 6, but when I moved high school started at grade 7 and high school is way better then middle school. But I warn you, in high school they definitely don't baby you around. We have 5 minutes to go to each class instead if teachers waiting for you. We can spend lunch inside the school, outside or off campus. Middle school is like Hugh school but without that much freedom and they will still baby you around. I personally like high school way better lol.
I'm in grade 8 😋

bookw0rm • 14 September 2013 at 9:03 AM

@rosamund
I just read in class. Now the 6th grades know me as the girl who always goes to the library and checks out books.

ems • 14 September 2013 at 11:14 AM

@rosamund Okay, to answer your question... xD

I'm actually going through that stage right now I think. ;n; And believe me, it's not all like "oh I'm better so I get to treat you like crap lol." It's more like you love your parents, but they're all nosy and just won't leave you alone. And as much as you love them, they seem to irritate the living crap out of you, because sometimes they still act like you're 4. Or that's what it feels like, at least. And believe me, it frigging sucks. And I guess I'm not the type who openly hates their parents (I don't hate them... They just... Get on my nerves..), I'm more passive aggressive because one step out of line gets me reprimanded. Rolling my eyes is a serious offense in my house. Whatever. So the point is I have to bottle it up, and it's actually killing me. I'm becoming less sociable around my parents, and it's KILLING ME! I want a relationship with them, I want to be with them, but my mom's constantly angry because of her stupid work and all my dad says is "bottle it up". Well, guess what? Bottling it up helps nothing. It just makes life a billion times worse. Even worse than that, it doesn't help that if I even think about speaking my mind to my mom, the only reaction I can imagine is her being either extremely angry of hurt. And the last thing I want to do is hurt her, so I'm back to my dad's advice. Bottle it up. But all that does is hurt ME. And I'm kind of sick of hurting now.

Yay for depressing walls of text.... ><
Sorry this sort of turned into a rant... ^^'

Deleted • 14 September 2013 at 4:10 PM

@whitescales

Looks like someones tough.

@originalroxieana

I know I dont get tolerated in high school ☹️ But Its kay the 3 long years are over.And high school is as well

@bookw0rm

Lol its your name right?😃

@ems

Well have a little family chat tonight alright?😃

yellowgrapefruit • 14 September 2013 at 4:16 PM

@rosamund

0.0 enjoy middle school right now (if youre in it)
i miss middle school so much
high school is a nightmare
so much homework and the teachers are worse
all they do is give a crap load of homework
and dont teach you anything
then BAM pop quiz on stuff you dont even know about ^~^

Deleted • 14 September 2013 at 4:24 PM

@yellowgrapefruit

Not anymore (in last year of highschool.) Cant wait to get outta here

yellowgrapefruit • 14 September 2013 at 4:26 PM

@rosamund

lucky duckling
>.< im a freshman
such a big difference from
middle school

ems • 14 September 2013 at 4:36 PM

@rosamund Nah. I'm too lazy. .3.
It's okay, just sometimes I'm like "whyyyyy"
But most of the time it's all good. ll3

Deleted • 14 September 2013 at 4:40 PM

@yellowgrapefruit

HAH but college will suck :/

@ems

Ayup sure

Deleted • 14 September 2013 at 4:46 PM

@rosamund

Nah, I just had anger problems ._."
I may have tried to be tough on the outside but I was really terrified that I would stand up to the wrong person and get pummeled to the ground. XD So I just tried to be as scary as possible to keep all the bullies away.

Deleted • 14 September 2013 at 4:51 PM

@whitescales Woowe

bookw0rm • 14 September 2013 at 5:54 PM

@rosamund
Totally my username! Everyone knows me as the girl who reads a lot. And who is very smart. Although my math table/group decided I know everything. >.< Not true.

Deleted • 14 September 2013 at 6:13 PM

@rosamund I'm just starting middle school this year so... Yeah 😊

mightyeglantine • 14 September 2013 at 6:19 PM

@rosamund No I would never color my hair unless the dye was vegan and didn't contain animal products~

@whitescales
~ I started growing mine out in 6th grade and I loved them then I accidentally filed one a little too much to the side and it looked lopsided so I just pointed it then all the rest of them, So I became known as the Guy with long pointy nails or Vampire dude or Werewolf boy or Psycho.~ Now in 9th grade A LOT of people avoid me and my teachers seem scared of me for some reason even though I hardly ever get mad and scratch someone, but when I do it is most likely for touching me (I don't like to be touched.) but my mother gets mad and says I should cut my nails so I dont accidentally scratch someone then I say they wouldnt get scratched if they stay away and if they do get scratched that means they are too close... 😸

Deleted • 14 September 2013 at 8:33 PM

@moon_thief

Poor you 😊 How is it C:

@bookw0rm

Well LOL that happens C:

@mightyeglantine

Nasty man ☹️ But NAILS YEAH

dreamer • 14 September 2013 at 10:27 PM

I started eighth grade last week, and I'm really having mixed feelings.
I never really hate any of my teachers. I don't know why. I've never had a problem with my core teachers. Even my teachers this year, so far they seem fine.
I can't stand my teacher for chorus though. >.< I took chorus last year, and I didn't sign up for it again, yet somehow I ended up stuck with the stupid class anyways. The one teacher who drives me NUTS, and I just can't get away. Some of my friends are in chorus, and one of them seems to be disrespectful... I agree with her, but I still wouldn't act disrespectful in the middle of class (even if I don't really respect said teacher AT ALL, she's taught me nothing). And I do realize that what I'm doing now *probably* isn't the most respectful thing in the world, but I need a place to vent.
My big problem in school is PE. They seem to put more focus on sports than anything else. I try so hard, and my academics are extremely important to me. If I receive anything lower than a 96, I feel like a failure, even though I've never had anything lower than a B+ for a final grade, and that still upsets me. But my gym class has such tough requirements! They expect us to run a certain speed, do a certain number of push-ups, AND play and study tons of pointless sports with ease. Gym is my only weak point (I'm not the greatest in SS either, but I do pretty well in the class usually). If kids can't reach a goal academically? Yeah that's alright, waste more class time walking them through it, or just bump down their class level and let them fly by, no big deal. But in gym, if you're not good at something? Everyone's watching, everyone's laughing at you and whispering about how much you suck, and then the teacher tells you you have to do better next time or that you SHOULD HAVE reached the goal. But you know what? I DIDN'T. Big deal. If you don't expect everyone to be in Advanced English and Algebra, then you shouldn't expect everyone to be athletic, either. It really gets on my nerves.
For the most part, my friends and I aren't bothered at school. We're non-existent except for some guys we hang out with sometimes when we walk around town on Wednesdays.
I had been feeling detached from my friends because they were all in "fandoms," like Anime and MLP and Homestuck and everything, but I was never into that. Over the summer I started reading Homestuck though, so we've had a lot more to talk about where I wouldn't feel ignored or excluded around them (and they made me start using Tumblr XD).
Yeah. We're really just... That group. Every school has one. We don't bother everyone, and even though we don't like tons of people, they don't really bother us either. I guess that's really the best situation you can be in when, like us, you don't want to suck up all of the attention or be the center of everything (including rumors).
I guess it's been alright so far, but I can't tell for sure yet. I also lost 12 pounds over the summer (and dropped three more after school started), so I haven't really felt crappy about myself at all. ^^ I'm still REALLY stressed out about gym class. I have it on Monday, and I'm honestly afraid to go to school because of it. I don't know why no one really seems to care?
I can actually say this. I'm *afraid* of gym class. But no one's going to do anything about it. It's just a bunch of standards that I'm never going to meet up to, even if I'm 15 pounds lighter. People think it's all about your health and all about your weight, but I'm just not athletic. It has almost nothing to do with that! The reason I like to stay off the radar is because I'm shy. I get good grades, but tons of people don't notice me. People only notice me when I'm in gym and I struggle to run a mile for the third class in a row, or if everyone throws the shotput like 16 feet and my friend and I barely throw them 6 feet. :/

Deleted • 15 September 2013 at 10:44 AM

@mightyeglantine

During my freshman year I hung around a group of older kids who made their own little "Werewolf/Vampire/Dragon" writing club and they went crazy over my nails. One guy from that group insisted on calling me 'kitty' all the time even though it was the one name that annoyed me endlessly.

My parents also wanted me to cut my nails but I kept brushing them off. It was my body and I was going to do what I wanted with it.. Maybe that was me going through that "defiant stage" lol.
But I hated people touching me too so if anyone tried to hug me or grab me against my will I scratched them for it and pretty soon most of my female friends were getting me to stop other people from touching them too. It was pretty funny actually, I think that's about when most guys started avoiding me. XD

@dreamer

Gym class was probably the worst class in middle school for me too. I couldn't throw well or hit a softball with a bat and whenever I kicked a ball it flew in some weird direction that it wasn't supposed to go in. I failed miserably at all sports. I was only really good at the rock climbing wall we had in the gym but we were never tested on that.
I personally don't think it's fair to grade a kid on how "athletic" they are either, I mean some people really just aren't good at sports. That doesn't mean they're unhealthy or anything just that it's not what they're best at.
Heck, I had one of the highest reading levels in my class but I was always among the last to finish running a mile. That didn't make me any less of a good student, I just couldn't run as well as the other kids!

I really wish they would change their gym class standards because all it really does in my opinion is make kids feel bad about themselves. :/ But that's just my two cents.

dreamer • 15 September 2013 at 1:20 PM

@Whistescales No, I completely agree with that! I have really high grades in school, and it's so important for me to stay at my best. However, I struggle in gym class, because I'm *always* the last to finish the mile (if I ever even finish without bursting into tears or coughing up blood or something) and sports isn't my strong point at all.
Running is the worst part. I've been able to run greater distances now, but I can't go too far without losing my breath. I practice running a lot during the summer, but it doesn't make a difference when it's time to run the mile. Last year, I really wanted to impress my gym teacher, and I kept running during the mile even after my legs were killing me and my throat was burning. Eventually, I had to stop, and I had just barely made it around once. It's pathetic. But I couldn't breathe as I passed a second lap, even when I stopped, and my legs wouldn't move.
Every time I went another lap around, I broke down and told the gym teachers I couldn't do it. They just looked at me and told me to keep going, that I couldn't stop running. I was absolutely *furious* at that point. It's infuriating that everyone is held at the same physical standards, but it doesn't seem to matter in any other class. Sure, someone can be in advanced classes, but it doesn't matter at all to anyone if they can't even FINISH running a mile and if they can't do tons of pull-ups.
I'll admit, me not being able to run a mile without going into some traumatic episode is absolutely freaking ridiculous, but there's nothing I can really do at this point to change it. This is just the way I am. I wasn't built for playing tons of sports or running for long periods of time.
My ONLY strong point in gym is my flexibility, which doesn't factor into my grade at all, of course. I reached 40 inches on the flexibility test, which was 4 inches higher than the "presidential standard". But of course, apparently that still wasn't good enough to get my name on one of the top-ten lists. :/
I usually feel relatively confident. I mean, I don't love myself, I could fix things, but I don't hate myself either and I don't call myself ugly or horrible. I know that I'm good at things, but my strengths are in academics, mainly math and English. I'm 16 pounds lighter than I was two months ago and I'm a straight-A student, so aside from school stress, I don't have tons of problems with myself. But in gym class? I beat myself up in gym class. The other kids beat me up too. I try my hardest, but I'm not nearly as good as anyone else and they just look at me like some pathetic loser. I'm a pathetic loser that has higher grades in school than most of them, but none of that matters because I'm not athletic. Athleticism is like the high standard in my school if it wasn't already clear.
If kids can get by without being able to solve extremely complicated algebraic expressions or without having to read at a much higher grade level, I don't understand why it's so wrong for me to not be able to meet up with anyone else in gym. If they're going to treat it like one of our other core classes, it's wrong for them to have the same exact expectations for every individual student and to criticize the people who just don't quite make the cut. We're all on different levels with math and science and English and social studies, yet in gym, our grade goes down if we're not good at sports.
(Our gym teachers actually SAID that our ability to learn to play sports was part of the judging factor in our final grade. That's just insane.)
Gym requirements are pretty superficial. If you're tall and thin, they expect more from you. If you have some extra weight, they force you to meet the same standards, but they don't put nearly as much hope in you. A friend of mine is VERY skinny (she loves sweets and pastries but she never gains a pound), so the gym teachers expect a lot out of her. However, both of us are usually on the same athletic level! Except for the mile. XP But neither of us are great at sports, and we don't make any of the top ten lists.
Still, people seem to expect more out of her because she's small and she's thin. All of us our different sizes and shapes, but our athletic abilities can't be judged because of it. And if we can't all do exactly what they want in gym, why are we forced to get there anyways?
It's hopeless. No matter how hard I practice, and no matter how hard I pay attention in class, it doesn't change anything. I'm always afraid of going to gym because it's just another reminder that I could potentially *fail* something in school.

(Sorry, my two cents are EXTREEEEEEEMELY long, but I just need to get my feelings out where I hope there may be understanding. 😋)

mightyeglantine • 15 September 2013 at 1:50 PM

@whitescales @dreamer
Gym class isn't too bad~
In my district it is required for one years of high school or you can take Dance or be in the Marching Band. I'm not a Musical person or one who uses body movements to express myself so I was stuck with PE. I'm not the fittest person but I am able to run a mile nonstop and usually finish first, so my gym teacher who is extremely nice to me gives me participation points for that but we have played badminton which I'm really good at (typing, gaming and scratching has given me really good eye-hand coordination~) and we have played Volleyball which I was pretty good at but HATED~(I could jump higher than the others and had a very hard slap but I usually hit other kids most times on purpose 😸~) now we are on basketball and I don't play basketball I have already broken two nails and they were my favorites~ So I just stand in the corner glaring at everyone else who snickers at me not playing and calls me names that don't really affect me~I don't even want to get started on the changing in locker rooms.