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[quote=Anonymous]I remember that my group of friends, about six girls, would take turns booting one of us from the group at a time by ignoring and walking away from her at recess.  Within a day or two, she would be allowed back in.  It sounds terrible, but that was pretty much the only really mean thing we did among the girls, and our class otherwise didn’t really have drama.  I was in the G&T class, so it was the same group of kids together until 6th grade.

My DD is a 5th grader in a full-time G&T class, and maybe my memory is selective, but the girls in her class (and her grade in general) sound so much more toxic.  Many stories of meanness, intense competitiveness, and some girls forming a “smart girls club” of only the smartest girls in a class where everyone is smart.

My elementary class was mostly kids of immigrants and low to upper middle class.  Some kids wore Reeboks & Nikes, but a lot of us got clothes & shoes from the cheap store, and it was no big deal.  None of us hung out together after school until middle school.  I would call my BFF on the phone and we’d chat for an hour.  There might have been some girls who had their period by 6th grade, but if there was, none of us talked about it.  Some girls in Gen Ed were more developed and had boyfriends.  Girls in my class found this very fascinating, but none of us expressed an interest in dating till we moved on to middle school.[/quote]

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