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Demeter

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2. I'd posit that the adults have a hard time letting or supporting the children's transition

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Wed Jul 9, 2014, 08:50 AM

Jul 2014

never mind providing the assistance in that transition.

One doesn't magically become adult. It's a learning process, one that the schools do not encourage. Their job is to turn out little robots for corporate drone programs. Somehow, the kids aren't agreeing to this truncation of their lives.

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Middle school hormones, myth or reality? [View all] hedgehog Jul 2014 OP

Haha...from my years as a middle school teacher... Sancho Jul 2014 #1

I'd posit that the adults have a hard time letting or supporting the children's transition Demeter Jul 2014 #2

Yes and yes Tetris_Iguana Jul 2014 #3

I went to a school where they had Turbineguy Jul 2014 #4

My 13 yo grandson, and all his friends, regularly blast through here and I say reality! nt Mnemosyne Jul 2014 #5

I had physical problems at that age HockeyMom Jul 2014 #6

We had no junior high, but rather a 6 year high school, 7th through 12th. I think we were RKP5637 Jul 2014 #7

Reality. femmocrat Jul 2014 #8

Sure. Igel Jul 2014 #9

It is a difficult age group. DirkGently Jul 2014 #10

I taught Jr High for a couple of years - and would agree hormones are a major cause of behavioral DrDan Jul 2014 #11

Just part of the reality. LWolf Jul 2014 #12