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Indeed.  Even our lovely Burgundy had a clique of mean girls a few 8th grades ago.[/quote]

Not on the same level as the SSSAS cliques or meanness. Burgundy is just really small and kids are expected to be BFFs with the same kids since K. It is normal developmentally for girls to shift friend groups in middle school not once, but sometimes a few times. Completely normal. At a small school, it can absolutely feel exclusionary or mean. The kids being left out of the friend shift feel they are the object of “mean” girls. In Burgundy’s case, a few Moms told every last parent they knew that there was a group of mean girls bullying their kids. I’m sorry, but that was not the story. My kid was in this class, but was a boy. [/quote]

When we were looking at Burgundy a few years ago, the posts here about the mean girls nearly scared us off. But that's where we ended up, and my kid has had a wonderful experience there.[/quote]

Yep. My take as a parent in the grade in question was that it was 2 moms that literally told everyone at the school (and probably on DCUM) how horrible a certain group of girls were. It was actually a few pretty typical middle school conflicts (we are not talking cyber bullying, for instance) which was escalated to absurdity by the parents. Not to dismiss the feelings of the girls that were struggling socially, but it wasn’t anything on the scale it was made out to be. Middle school can be tough socially, but Burgundy does a great job keeping it pretty pleasant.[/quote]

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