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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MS is usually miserable for so many kids it makes me wonder why it even exists. Or what could be done, if anything to make it better.[/quote]

My kid hd a very happy sixth grade year. That said, I much prefer the system I had in the Midwest in the 80s where sixth grade was elementary and 7-9 was junior high. 6th graders really are still children and should not be with eight graders.[/quote]

Agree.

Avoids this sick dynamic of 5th and 6th graders trying to act like 8th graders. [/quote]
Let it go, it is not “sick” for a 12 year old 6th grader to act more like a 14 year old 8th grader than a 10 year old 4th grader.  Kids mature at different rates and this shaming that you are doing of kids that have outgrown ES interests by 6th grade is no better than shaming a 6th grader who hasn’t outgrown ES interests.[/quote]

There is alot more shaming MS kids for acting like kids here on DCUM than not.  Nothing wrong at all with MS kids acting like and doing kid stuff. And if 8th graders are really what ppl on here seem to think they're like, I don't think I'd want my 6th a d 7th graders to act like that either. [/quote]
So you’ve taken it upon yourself to be a 1 woman crusade to go the other way and say it’s wrong or “sick” for a 6th grader to have more in common with an 8th grader than a 4th grader? My rising 7th grader plays a club sport where she is with kids up to age 14, and there were no issues last year when she was in 6th and the oldest kids were in 8th.[/quote]

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