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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our public middle it's the good looking, confident athletes that are cool.

Most of the cool kids are very nice and friendly.  Being a jerk is not cool and misbehaving is really not cool.  
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Generally the cool kids are sporty, and more or less attractive, but what sets them apart as "cool" is that they have per.issive parents and are much more experimental with things, especially opposite sex relationships and substance use.  They often have older siblings and try to emulate what they perceive the high school kids to be.  They are not necessarily more "mean" than other kids their ages, but they are more self absorbed and don't notice the other kids, which makes others feel on the outside. This increases their cool factor, and makes their real or perceived snubs feel much more painful.

I have noticed that their parents like to talk about how outgoing and well liked they are, but often they aren't really liked, just emulated and feared.[/quote]

My kid is two years into a DC public charter middle school and this does NOT sound like his school at all. The school goes through HS and this also is not my impression of the high school students I know there. [/quote]

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