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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is so interesting because all the negative comments are so so true. I have a girl graduating top of the class.  She is very mature, cool and not one of the studious or nerdy ones. But like her cool, athletic and intelligent peers, as I recently learned, each of them hated their experience at Cooper Middle School as much as she did.  They are all so happy it is almost over, counting the days. Nobody wanted to go to any of the end of the year events or spend any more time with anybody at school. Can you imagine most wanted nothing to do with the school dance or the class field trip to the amusement park? Most want to forget, break off forever and move on. As parents we have been so beyond disappointed with the middle school experience for girls and with this school and the current 8th grade. It has left such a bad taste in our mouth to say the least. Though I hear Langley HS will be different as the kids will change, we are too weary and doubtful of that at least for the first year since it’s the same kids from this class. Will the high school be able to instill a better, kinder, friendly, inclusive, and respectful culture if the middle school couldn’t at all? We are going to have to change to a private school just to really avoid the same environment.  It has been upsetting seeing the drama and social aspect affect our daughter, who came home sad because she hated every day lunch time, because of the friend groups.  The cliques that don’t let you in and your own friend group that is actually mean to you. You will suffer from your friend group that treats you like crap because they are so insecure and when they are not around totally excluded because you are not part of the other groups. You have no control of your schedule and will end up at different lunch than those few friends you truly want to be with. That is supposed to be the most enjoyed time of the day! But it is horrible….We are so disgusted with the incredibly immature, insecure and mean girls, the extremely rude and racist environment among the boys culture. What kind of parents do they have?  The dirty mouths of the kids in the hallway, worse than what you see in rated R movies.  They do not and cannot control anything. The 3 values you see on the wall of the front office tell you the issues they are trying to solve but are failing badly. Values are something that are actually adopted and in practice and reinforced all the time, and they don’t have any assemblies at all to preach them, so they don’t have these yet as values. Rather they should call them “current problems” we need to solve asap. [/quote]

I went to a smaller middle school in a different state 30 years ago. Most of these problems were also issues at my middle school back then. Middle school is just unpleasant. [/quote]

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