Are there seventh graders who are drinking and fooling around sexually?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Absolutely, none, anywhere, ever.

Why do people ask stupid questions like this? Of course there are.

Ok smart ass. I should have said how widespread in this. I was thinking it was an exception rather than the norm at this age.

Were you homeschooled?

Not PP. I think it really depends on exactly what we are talking about. Is starting to fool around some normal in 7th grade? Sure. I would say that having sex in 7th grade is the exception. On a rare occasion having a little alcohol or weed? Probably not wildly exceptional, but still not the norm. Significant alcohol or drug use? I would say that is pretty unusual at this age.

[Anonymous]

I was in middle school 20 years ago and yes it happened but it seemed to me it was always people from troubled/broken homes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was in middle school 20 years ago and yes it happened but it seemed to me it was always people from troubled/broken homes.

I graduated high school in '94 and when I was in middle school ONE girl (a nice girl who was not popular but got good grades) was dating ONE boy. Nobody knew until they broke up in 8th grade. In 7th and 8th grades, if kids were dating it meant they sat together with other kids at lunch and talked on the phone at night doing homework together. Maybe they made each other a mix tape of Richard Marx and Bon Jovi songs with a special Chicago song thrown in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Absolutely, none, anywhere, ever.

Why do people ask stupid questions like this? Of course there are.

Ok smart ass. I should have said how widespread in this. I was thinking it was an exception rather than the norm at this age.

Were you homeschooled?

NP. I was not homeschooled, and if it was common when I was in 7th grade in the early 80's, then I didn't know about it. I'm sure it varies a lot depending on where you live and what type of community it is. I was not a popular girl, so I wasn't going to parties, I was hanging out with my small group of girlfriends and we were completely innocent. We wouldn't have known what the popular kids were doing.

I have a high schooler now who tells me that drinking and fooling around was rare at his middle school, while from what he heard, those things were much more common at a neighboring middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was 11 in 7th grade.

Exactly. My daughter started high school as a 13yr old. Turned 14 in the middle of November. The cut-offs were different years ago and even in Virginia kids can be 13 up until Sept 30th in high school. NY, they are 13 up until end of December.

Either way, how in the world is a 7th grader 13 unless they were held back or red-shirted.

[Anonymous]

It is the exception in most decent areas. My middle schooler went to Julius West and there were multiple pregnant kids during his 3 years there. All hispanic from Twinbrook. Kids popping out kids. It is against their religion to abort plus they securing their place in forever welfare with their anchor babies.

[Anonymous]

Pregnancy rates for all teens fell 55% from 1990-2011, and they fell 56% for Latina teens over that time period.

Between 2007-2014, birth rates for Latina teens fell 50%, compared to drops of 44% for blacks and 36% for whites.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would assume that some are. I am in my 40s and there were certainly sexually active middle schoolers in my day as well.

+1

I was a nerd, so my crowd was still far from all that. But one of my friends found a notebook that other girls in our grade passed around to write each other notes etc. and it was all about drinking, boys and sex. My friends and I were shocked -- we'd been totally clueless that stuff like that was going on in 7th grade.

[Anonymous]

In K, MOST kids are are 4 and turn 6 during the school year
1, 6-7
2, 7-8
3, 8-9
4, 9-10
5, 10-11
6, 11-12
7, 12-13
8, 13-14
9, 14-15
10, 15-16
11, 16-17
12, 17-18

Do explain to me how a "typical" 7th grader is 11? Only summer birthdays, in VA, would be 11. That's not most!!

[Anonymous]

Typo-most KG are 5 turning 6.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my K-8 Catholic school in the '70s there were a few engaging in drinking, drugs and/or sexual experimentation. It was mostly the kids with parents who thought their little angel was completely unaware of such things. Kids are kids no matter what the household income or school attended.

+1 in the 80s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was 11 in 7th grade.

Exactly. My daughter started high school as a 13yr old. Turned 14 in the middle of November. The cut-offs were different years ago and even in Virginia kids can be 13 up until Sept 30th in high school. NY, they are 13 up until end of December.

Either way, how in the world is a 7th grader 13 unless they were held back or red-shirted.

A current 7th grader in DC had to be 5 before 9/30/09. So a child born on 10/1/03 could not start K until August 2009, and so turned 6 in October of K, which means that child and all children born between 10/1/03 and 11/3/03 (13 years ago today) are 13 year old 7th graders. Get it? 13 is on time for 7th grade.

[Anonymous]

Someone is not understanding how the age cut-off works in Virginia. Any child that was born from October 1, 2003 until September 30, 2004 is now in the seventh grade. That means there are many current seventh graders (including mine) who are now 13 and most will reach that age before the end of the school year. Some will certainly start experimenting with drugs and sex, most will not.

[Anonymous]

It's not out of the question that some are. I drank with my friends at that age growing up, although I was not sexually active or even had my first kiss until college.

I also found out years after the fact that my now college age daughter had sex for the first time at age 12; she enjoyed the experience at the time and does not regret it or any of her subsequent partners/experiences, so I only feel a little bad for not knowing at the time since she actively tried to hide it from me and clearly handled things fine on her own. Have to admit, that was pretty surprising.

[Anonymous]

Yes, unfortunately.