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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP I am still kind of stuck on the idea that you think there are "popular" kids in third grade. That is not consistent with what I see in my kids' school. I know you said it is small, but still!! Pretty much all the girls in my DD's class are friends in some capacity. Pretty much all the boys, same. [/quote]

3rd was when I started noticing a “cool” girls clique at my kids’ school. And when I started to notice some girls being excluded from that group as well. I didn’t notice it with the boys at that age, just different friendships and friend groups. “Cool”/“popular” for boys seemed to start later, like 4th-5th. I think with kids hitting puberty a little earlier these days, all this stuff that was more late elementary starts a few years earlier. [/quote]

This. Just because this type of dynamic might not be noticeable in some schools does not mean it’s not a thing in others. I think we’re kidding ourselves a little bit if we’re acting like we have no idea what this could look like at the elementary school level or the impact it could have on kids. Of course it’s not a healthy dynamic — OP never said that or that she was striving for that for her daughter — but it is one that exists. [/quote]

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