When I was in middle school, my biggest worries were not being able to find my class and having my period leak through on my jeans. I have been substituting in a nearby middle school for the last few days and I am both amused and pitying toward those little pre-teens (although, I don’t have much room to talk about them being “little” as most of them are either taller or wider than me). They want to much to be high-schoolers so they take what they percieve to be high school traits and exagerate them. They are crude and disrespectful. They talk about things that they have no idea about. Even worse is to watch the couples. They say they are “going out” (going where? They can’t drive). I watched a “couple” standing near the buses in front of the school after the bell rang. They hugged akwardly and then kissed. It didn’t seem like they wanted to kiss, just that they were expected to. I’ve only been out of middle school for a decade, but I already look back and say, “They’re just kids!”
