An Open Letter To Middle School Girls
- Anna Mae
- Sep 7, 2016
- 1 min read
by Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott
''Dear beauties,
Hey.
If you live somewhere where they don’t call it “middle school,” I’m talking about grades 6-8, and ages 11-14. Call it “intermediate school.” Call it “junior high.” Whatever you want to call it, it is ROUGH.
Having been through middle school and having taught middle school, I consider myself pretty proficient in how it works. Somehow, regardless of who you are and what you bring to the table, middle school is unkind to every single person who passes through it. My dad always said, “If we really wanted to win a war, we’d deploy a plane full of 12-year-old girls. That’d do it.” Oh man, how true that is.
Teaching middle school, I heard the meanest things anyone has ever said to anyone else...''
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