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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are in private middle school and the popular kids are the athletes who are also good students. Risky behavior boys are looked down upon.[/quote]

When I was in school (suburban MC district and public, on the west coast) this was also my experience. I mean these kids, later on in high school might go to a party and drink or smoke weed but that was like at age 16,17,18. Not 11-14. And it was in moderation.

It always kinda flummoxed me because it was nothing like the movies or TV shows had me expecting. It wasn’t dumb jocks, and pretty bimbos. The jocks were all good students, and the pretty girls were even better students than the boys. It seemed like the “popular kids” were well-rounded and had it all. Looks and brains.

Bullying was subtle, it was social exclusion and mean comments that could be passed off as jokes. Nothing physical.

Perhaps it’s just really dependent of the school, area, region, etc. idk[/quote]

Same. The popular kids were smart, did well in school, generally came from upper middle class families, and were athletic. I always was surprised when the stereotype was that working on the yearbook was for nerds- that was like the #1 popular girl activity at my school and it was a serious job! That was the case in high school though. I do remember middle school being more skewed toward the trouble makers for a few years. And there was always a party crowd but the truly popular kids didn’t necessarily hang out with them a lot.[/quote]

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