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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was surprised that in middle school, although DD made friends with a bunch of nice girls, she also made friends with a group of boys and would be the lone girl hanging out with them, both in and out of school. She also announced one day she'd joined the GSA and it took me a bit to figure out why exactly.

Overall, middle school was great - DD got super organized and learned how to work hard and achieve, and how to make friends with teachers. She had to work in groups for big projects which stunk because she often got paired with slackers (I would email the teacher to let them know DD did all the work when that happened). [/quote]

Ugh, I dread the prospect of middle school group projects for this reason! I can see the same thing happening to my kids. To make it worse our zoned middle school decided a few years ago to become a "PBL School" that places a special emphasis on project-based learning. Evidently projects are assigned in every class all the time, many of them group projects. We have one more year until our oldest starts middle school, but we're considering switching to private at this point because of the PBL issue.[/quote]

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