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I hate 6th grade.

posted 12 years ago by cookie1919-361-891757
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Of all the years of My middle school years in the early '00s (5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th), 6th grade was the worst. It was WAAAAY before facebook, twitter, myspace, and youtube and usually all of my friends would hangout after school with the older crowd (some 7th and 8th graders and some 9th and 10th grade high schoolers) because we act older than our years (Actually, I look 14 when I was 11). We would smoke, drink, and go to parties that we have no business going to. We were some mean kids because we would pick on a lot of kids that were different and total outcasts and I would feel really bad about it because I wasn't that type of person to ruin such lives. I remember one day at school and it was during lunch that I told my friends that "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!" and that "I'M TIRED OF Y'ALL BEING SUCH *beep* TO OTHER PEOPLE!!" and just like that they quickly dropped me from their so-called circle of friendship and I became their everyday target of ridicule and bullying (to the point that I ran out of math class crying my eyes out because I can't take the pain). At home, I would receive numerous harsh words from my former friends on my AOL IM (Once again, waaay before facebook and myspace). I've made it through my 6th grade year without the thought of moving or suicide and by 7th grade, I was non-existent to my friends because they still treated me like I'm nothing. By high school, some of them moved and I didn't have any contact from them. Just recently, I surprisingly received friend requests from those jerks on facebook and before I deleted their request, I said to them "Y'all made my life a living hell in 6th grade and you think that y'all can just sweep it under the rug and have me forgive y'all by becoming friends on facebook?". They said that they were sorry because we were only kids and we were all young and stupid. I told them "No, I wasn't the one that's stupid, y'all were". To this day, at the age of 21, 6th grade is something that I can't forgot because it was so bad and terrible and it reminded me so much of Harriet.

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[–] holographica 12 years ago

Oh wow, I'm really sorry to hear what you went through. That's some really heavy stuff. Though it was a lot of pain and learning the hard way, it seems like its impact on you and your values was priceless. I can't imagine it... I thought 6th grade was great (even as the new kid in town). 7th grade was when I noticed everyone really started changing and really felt the roughness of middle school/jr high school years.

Also, wow... I'm speechless you got entangled in drugs and partying crowd at age 11! Anyways, there's something about this movie that really hits home. I guess everyone can relate to the feeling of loneliness and helpless anger at circumstances and relationships.

[–] Tri-State_Skater 8 years ago

Sorry sixth grade was so bad for you. I hope things are better now.

As for my sixth grade experience. That was the first year of middle school for me, at Madison Middle School in Trumbull, CT.

I think my grade was more "mature" than the kids in the movie. Like the first real couple happened that year, and we weren't playing tag anymore. I don't remember having a desire to. Also, I think 11 years old is a bit old to have a nanny, especially in 1996. I believe current laws probably demand one.

Also, we didn't just have one class of sixth graders, the entire grade had around 277 kids in it. This was in a typical suburban town at public school. I know that in cities sometimes the classes are smaller because of magnet schools and private schools. I'm not sure how their public schools operate though.