| 单词 | middle school |
| 例句 | Their school got out an hour after the middle school. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z This is the first time the district is doing a middle school musical. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I've thought about it a lot, and I came up with a list of twenty supplies you need to survive middle school when you don't have arms. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z They added up to this: All the eighth graders would have to squeeze into the high school; all the seventh graders would have to squeeze into the middle school. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We couldn’t turn them in; we’d tried that plenty in middle school, and it inevitably resulted in more punishment. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z There had been a few seventh graders scattered among the other teams, but all the rest of the middle school regional champs were eighth graders. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Last year, Lily told me that since I was in middle school, I should be reading “real” books. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Even when she was in elementary and middle school, she always chose computers as her choice of centers while all the other more popular girls seemed to cluster together in art or reading. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Through middle school he was this gawky and goofy kid with a cute smile. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I’m in middle school now, so I have to make it real good. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Without any students, the hallway doesn’t look like a real middle school, it looks like a movie set of a middle school. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Once, in middle school, back when I played soccer, I was stretching with three other girls, and a boy walked by with his friend. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z But by the time we got to middle school, Ma had the newest car on the block—a minivan with leather seats. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Malia was already signed up to sing in a middle school choral concert. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When I asked her why I need to keep out of trouble if I’ve never been in trouble, she started talking about purity and how many middle school girls have lost touch with God. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “I actually tried playing basketball in middle school. Loved it. Still do.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z They had known each other since middle school. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The middle school secretary calls for the second time this week. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Barely an inch of snow means that all the schools in the county are closed, including my high school and the middle school where Dad works, so it’s an unexpected day off for him, too. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Jake’s mom was just one of hundreds of adults who were pulling for Riverview in the championship round because it had been their middle school, too. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Maybe Emily just got smarter and realized she wants new friends in middle school. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “My parents asked if I want to go there after middle school. After today, I wonder if I should.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z At the end of the summer vacation he went to the seventh grade at the middle school, while I was in the sixth grade at the grammar school. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “If this is happening in middle school, I shudder to think what you guys are going to get up to in high school.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “So sending him off to middle school like a lamb to the slaughter . . . ,” Dad answered angrily, but he didn’t even finish his sentence because he saw me in the mirror looking up. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z In middle school, Michael and I would go to the games sometimes even though neither of us were popular enough to go. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Tony knew Wes had just finished elementary school and asked him what he was doing to get ready for the start of middle school at Chinquapin, pronounced “Chicken Pen” by all of its students. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She was a middle school girl now, and she’d probably forgotten about everything that happened in elementary school. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Showers after gym had been mandatory in middle school, and I’d spent years perfecting how to be naked for the least amount of time. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z They marched into the gymnasium to meet their competition—Quiz Bowl teams from the five other middle schools in the district. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z My middle school didn’t have much of a music program, so Mom found me a private teacher, a college student who came over once a week. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We leave the middle school building just as the second class-change bell rings behind us. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z That was the year to get ready for middle school. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Sixth had once been the top grade in elementary school, and was now the bottom grade in middle school. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “Wherever we choose now will be where we eat for the rest of middle school.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Like how she hasn’t told her little sister about it yet, but she plans to tell her when she gets to middle school. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Freshman year is so close to middle school; there’s a huge possibility I said or did something extremely stupid. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I never want to go back to middle school. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “Not new to town, though. I used to go to the other middle school.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z But once he got to middle school, Mustafa’s grades went downhill. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z But while everyone else in our freshman class had gone to the same middle school and entered Lynbrook with their cliques already well established, my friend group and I were the unknown entities. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “When these two pretended to be lost in the halls of the middle school, only two students dropped everything to offer assistance.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z They don’t have recess in middle school and I don’t like recess. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Having a place to sit in middle school is important. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I can suffer through a year of middle school. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Every day Dell asks me when I plan to go back to middle school. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “I read somewhere that they need to close one middle school this year. Tear down the building...” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z But Malik and I are only baseball-team friends, because we go to different middle schools and live twenty minutes apart. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z You’ll be going to the middle school soon and I want you to have some friends there. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He should be starting middle school with the rest of us. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z “Getting through elementary school is hardly an achievement. Now, middle school? That’s a different story.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z He must have an older brother or sister in middle school! A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z You must have thought I meant storeroom B-376 of the middle school. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z These names bothered me in sixth grade when I was excited to start middle school and make friends. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z “I said practically. Everyone—especially my parents—thought I was going to be great, and now I might not make the middle school team. My basketball career is over before it started.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z For what it's worth, I think it would be incredibly depressing if your actual proudest moment happened in middle school, You can't imagine how much I hated middle school. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z I was riding past the middle school and I heard sirens and I thought there was another shooting. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I came to a few conclusions about the middle school experience: Clothing was very important. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Serena’s house was on Shaker Boulevard, by the middle school, nearly two miles away. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They even had to send a special van to the middle school just to get me and this girl named Annette Watson, who’s the backup piano player. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z His first day of middle school, in front of everybody, he mixed up the strokes of his own name. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z We’ve been friends since middle school, and they know by now that when it comes to plans, my CF gets the final say. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z It’s wooden and has dark blue curtains because the middle school colors are blue and white. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It is easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I guess even Nora is haunted by the ghosts of middle school. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z There is a long article about middle school soccer and a “Looking Back” feature about Betty Bright at the Pan American Games. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t really remember much of what happened after that except that my older brother came to Mr. Vaughn’s office in my middle school and told me to stop crying. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z When I got back to school after winter break, Mr. Tushman, the middle school director, congratulated me on having started a coat drive. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z I wish I were done with middle school. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z “It was my older brother’s, when he was in middle school. I helped him make it for a costume contest. See, I drew the mustache.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z By middle school, I lost the will to be charming and self-deprecating about my faulty pores. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z They send professors into middle schools to do research and run tests; they publish thousand-page studies. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z And by that, the district meant the middle school students who got into trouble, almost exclusively for behavioral issues. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z She’s been around for a few months, but you don’t really know her because you don’t come to the Bean Bar as much as you did in middle school. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I was friends with her in middle school, but then she changed, and by the end of freshman year, she turned quiet, almost mute. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z When she was younger, before she went to middle school and her arms seemed to grow longer in the night, she knew the easy latitude and longitude of her world. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She proceeded to name five guys we’d attended elementary and middle school with, but I couldn’t picture any of them. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Maybe I’ll get kicked out of middle school in my 1st week. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Soojin sighs as if my entire middle school future depends on performing a solo in Ms. Holly’s Blast from the Past production. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The guy hasn't been around since maybe sometime in middle school. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “I actually went to your middle school, remember? Last year? I was the one with the gorgeous bod and the perfect makeup?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Maybe the only cool thing I did in middle school was fight my way into the boys’ soccer games. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Come on, what are we, in middle school? The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I was also about to start middle school, where I would be a lowly sixth grader. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Since we started middle school, sometimes she feels like a new person. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Mila, that boy had no business grabbing your arm, but you should have used words, you know? You just can’t go around kicking kids in middle school! You could have seriously injured someone.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In middle school, your lunch table group isn’t always the same as your friend group. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Most people write stuff like nice known’ ya, and we in middle school now! Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Being left out of social situations isn’t helping me make friends at middle school. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It seems like I’m getting that sigh more and more lately—ever since the start of middle school. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I think I recognize her from my new middle school, which I transferred to last week. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z When did middle schools eliminate weekly spelling bees? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “Yeah. My dad’s going to be their middle school music teacher and choir director.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Or how I was obsessed with Passion Pit in middle school, and then I realized it wasn't really about the music. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z My mom used to teach music at a middle school until they cut her job. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Do you remember the name of the teacher who was killed at the middle school? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole day was like that, but eventually even a Friday at middle school has to come to an end. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Will Bates was drummed out of Carter and reassigned to teach industrial arts in a middle school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But then I did see a group of middle school kids coming in, and Joey was with them. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In middle school, you get two electives that you get to choose yourself. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z When we started middle school, we were no longer in the same classroom all day. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z And then this huge hand settles on my shoulder, and I look down and see the middle school graduation ring he's worn on his pinkie ever since eighth grade and know immediately that it's Tiny. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “But they matter now, Georges. They matter a lot. What were you planning to do, just hold your breath all the way through middle school?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In April 2012, The New York Times published a heart-wrenching essay by Claire Needed Hollander, a middle school English teacher in the New York City public schools. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z And for the whole walk to Willy’s middle school and then to my school, all I could hear was that lie in his voice. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Those Halloween dances were the best thing about middle school. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z And not only was he starting school, he was starting middle school! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z In middle school, Sasha was brainy, shy, and introverted, the kind of kid who is easy to overlook. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z With the schedule had come a map of the high school- middle school campus, which I appreciated, and a handwritten note to Mom from Mrs. Gates, which I did not. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In middle school, he would have to learn another language, like Spanish or French. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z In middle school, you pooled your money most days after school and shared a slice of pizza and a Frappuccino three ways, giggling and taking turns with the straw. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z About 6,200 students attend Bristol Township’s public schools, either at Truman High, the district’s lone high school, or one of its two middle schools or nine elementaries. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I vaguely recognize a couple; the rest must have gone to the other middle school. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The old man pushed the pile of middle school debris into the corner, then pulled out a million keys, flipping through them like pages of a book. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z “Hush, Gen. Virgil and I are in middle school. It doesn’t work that way. Besides, Virgil’s shy. Can’t you see that?” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “No way. And we don’t even have one in middle school.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Natalie had to get up earlier, because middle school started before elementary school. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The whole bus ride, I’m trying to get excited about middle school like I was all summer. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Your grandmother sent me an email. She said you hadn’t been to middle school before. But don’t worry; it’s a new year for everyone. Except me. This is my 15th year in 7th grade.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Lorenz from the elementary school brought me over to the middle school on the last day of fifth grade so I could meet her friend. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z But this is the student council, the governing body of the whole middle school. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “Top middle school in the district,” said Hubert, bouncing proudly on his heels. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z As I watch Link jog off, I spy a crowd gathering in the park across from the middle school. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z You put a heart above the i in your name, like you did all through middle school. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z My point is that in middle school you kind of get known for what you’re into, and you have to be careful about stuff like that. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The bottom shelf of her record collection included some books—middle school yearbooks, a beat-up copy of The Outsiders—and some back issues of teen magazines. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Trevor had always said that he wanted to join the team when he got to middle school, and that’s exactly what he did. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “Greetings, heroes!” called Mrs. Yunghans, the middle school librarian, who absolutely loved having the most famous library card holders in America checking out books in her library. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “Okay, you’ve literally been dating him for a shorter time than Simon and Bram. I know people who had longer relationships than that in middle school. Simon and Anna dated longer than that.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z It was hard enough for him to come out of total isolation at Garland without having to be dropped into the snake pit that was middle school. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I know so many of them because we all went to middle school together. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The dining hall at Chumley Prep is nothing like the cafeteria at my old middle school. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z He hasn’t called me Strid since I was in middle school. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “Mr. Tushman is the director of the middle school,” Mom explained. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z To the north it includes nearly all of the high school football bleachers that back up onto the middle school. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack breezes past with a super-cool group, the kids who make middle school look easy and fun. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Meeting Mini was better than a middle school dance. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When your whole world is a cheesy, prepackaged rehearsal for being alive, like middle school, a kid your own age who can pilot a twenty-ton bus is impressive. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Benji had wavy brown hair, braces, and zits and would probably grow a mustache before they were out of middle school. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z More recently, Benny was the boy who helped her find her locker and walked her to classes on the first day of middle school. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z We find our seats in the auditorium, which is pretty incredible—way better than the cafetorium at my old middle school. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Maya catches my eye, hers glimmering sneakily, and it’s middle school deja vu. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “But,” Miles says, “it sucks being one of the only Black kids there. There are, like, four of us total in the whole middle school.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “Stephanie told me I shouldn’t have said those things, but I didn’t get it. I thought, This is middle school. People are mean all the time.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “No you don’t. Not about anything important. It’s like, when we started middle school, you just...stopped.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She wanted to take me inside, but I was like, “Mom, it’s middle school!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z She suddenly sees him in his middle school PE uniform, and then in his orchestra suit at the funerals, and now, looking like a man. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “She always made me take store-bought treats for the bake sales in middle school.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z We think the transition to middle school is hard enough without having to place greater burdens or hardships on these young, impressionable minds. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z I saw no reason to do well in my new middle school. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z There were middle school kids of course, but there were also many grown-ups, local people. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z All my friends back home had their first kisses in middle school. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until we were all in the car, several blocks away from home, that I realized the random shirt I had put on was last year’s middle school band concert shirt. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The first visit was a middle school in Roxbury, not far from the Woods’s home. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z There are three elementary schools in Birmingham and only one middle school. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z When he started middle school and began failing every subject, I finally realized that he and I hated school for very different reasons. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “Our sons got five dollars a week in middle school,” he replied. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Looking back, I’d say middle school bullies got the best of my tears. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “It’s the fault of those terrible middle school teachers and their homework,” I say. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I don’t even want to hide from them for the rest of middle school. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Some kids from the middle school had gathered handfuls of acorns from there. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z You don’t see boys in middle school wearing those a lot. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Natalie Mayhew and the other Lip Gloss Girls had kind of run the whole school last year, before they moved on to middle school. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z In middle school, you can’t dress up as a cartoon character or anything kindergarten like that. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Poor you. It isn’t easy to master calculus in middle school.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z And even the kids who have been here a while, well, middle school is a brand-new ball game for everyone. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z But in middle school a lot of people didn’t know about August. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z We’re driving through Bed-Stuy and Clinton Hill, and these neighborhoods are like my face and body when I was in middle school—familiar but changing right before my eyes. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “I had no father at graduations, milestones, my wedding. “I lost out on a whole relationship in high school, middle school, college, without a father.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It doesn’t seem like this would be genetically or developmentally possible, but she was kind of cool in middle school. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z My voice still sounds thick as I say, “But all of my friends are from ballet. All of them. I don’t h-have anyone in my middle school.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Well, what self-respecting middle school kid would turn down a free pass to get out of work? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Last year, when she’d heard about the middle school homecoming dance, she had imagined something from a Bollywood movie. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I’ve known her since middle school, when I bumped into her at the bathroom mirror while she layered on eyeliner. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z It's right by the middle school, and when I was a kid, I used to go there a lot by myself, like after school or whatever, just to think. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z I thought about him in that way, to borrow a phrase from the middle school vernacular. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z "John John, you look like you getting ready to retire from middle school," Trey said. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z By the end of it, Aru had felt like she was wading through a steam of post-recess middle school body odor. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “It’s taken time, I swear. I went through this whole emo phase in middle school where I played with the alias ‘Rick.’” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Even though I’m teased, my new middle school feels good. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z They’ve liked each other since sixth grade, and if your feelings can survive the awkwardness of middle school you should stop playing around and go out. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The previous winter, he’d added a whole new level of delight to his existence when he started volunteering as an assistant coach for the Vipers, Sasha’s middle school basketball team. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It can even be the smart-alecky comments that got me voted Most Likely to Wind Up in Jail in my middle school the last two years running. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z This has been a tough year for a lot of students, as the first year of middle school usually is. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z How could a hippie who knew less than nothing about parties organize the middle school bash of everybody’s dreams? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z He came when he started middle school, and I joined him last year because a spot finally opened up in the fifth-grade class when a kid moved away over the summer. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z A San Francisco middle school must have a very rigid idea of acceptable clothes if James had taken her question so seriously. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z So when I took time out of my busy schedule and burdensome duties to attend a middle school basketball game, I expected to see orderly students, good sportsmanship, and happy alumni. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z A lot of the messages come from middle school kids all over the country, encouraging us to keep working and never give up. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I was so worried about Mom, and sad about losing Nan, that I didn’t know who I wanted to be in middle school. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Bernadette is the middle school secretary and one of my mother’s friends. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z And a lone voice of encouragement: the middle school teacher who gave him a gold star. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I scanned the crowd of students pouring out of the middle school building and quickly spotted Jeremy. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Now she’s less likely to actually punch someone since middle school punishments equal getting suspended and having to spend the day at home with her mom, but that’s probably for the best. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z She’s funny, and she may be the only kid in the middle school who cares about music the way I do, but she’s also kind of weird. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Charlie and I were separated by the plethora of new people we’d never met before who went to the other middle school. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “I was. It was more a passing hobby in middle school and high school. But I’m not going to have time for all that. I have a real career to focus on, you know?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The high school is next to the middle school. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He felt like he was back in middle school, when a good insult could make you king. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z What kind of middle school teacher needs a podium? The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The first day at middle school was a chance to make a new introduction. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z But if a little kid like Jamie, who’s usually a nice enough kid, can be that mean, then a kid like August doesn’t stand a chance in middle school. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Oh yeah, dances and dodgeball: the two Ds of my middle school nightmares. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I think about what it would be like to start seventh grade in a new middle school and can imagine acting the same way. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z That was the afternoon that I and all the other members of the elementary and middle schools of Epiphany were to attend a special matinee performance of Annie. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s on the far side of the middle school’s football fields, just before the train tracks. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z In lower school, every class would get its own picture taken with its own teacher, but in middle school, it’s just one group picture of the entire fifth grade. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z I’m Charlie Walters the middle school art teacher, the voice says. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z You definitely have to be when not even one of your close friends from elementary school is in this new, very large middle school. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Like their middle school, the high school wouldn’t open until tomorrow. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “That is what middle school is all about,” she says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z It seemed impossible, but somehow this man was doing a dead- on impression of my middle school bus driver, Mr. Barron. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He remembers hearing about Truman’s drama director as far back as seventh grade, when he started performing in middle school shows. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Mr. Myers is one of only two men who teach in the whole middle school. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z “Even if you’re accepted, you don’t have to go. You can stay at your middle school.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “That’s who I played when I was in Bye Bye Birdie in middle school.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z There was only one middle school, one high school, one biggish grocery store, and one run-down city pool, but about one million beauty parlors and churches. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z She even sports it at the middle school she goes to. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z They’re super gung ho, since being in middle school is still a big deal for them. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Damaris was the kind of friend I wished I had in middle school. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z This is my last year in middle school. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “It wouldn’t be middle school without big, bad Marcus Vega patrolling around.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z But the books would have to come from the middle school media center. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z But she’s always talking about how brain-dead our school is, and how we have zero spirit and never get involved the way other middle schools do. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Miss Esther came out of retirement to train the new middle school librarian, and she’d been glaring into classrooms and eyeballing teachers for weeks. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Now that I was in middle school, I didn’t see her during the day, but I always found her waiting for me in the kitchen when I came home. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I do not believe he knows that middle schools and even grade schools now compete in the Relays. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z In middle school, some people thought you were mentally challenged. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z It suddenly struck me that the two worst social situations in middle school — dances and dodgeball — had a lot in common for guys like me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We all sucked so much in middle school. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z And it was true: I could have been, which is always what worried Mami and Papi, too, especially after what happened at the middle school that I was zoned for. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Hope so. I want to study to be an EMT. I have ever since middle school.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “Nothing” got his name when kids used to tease him in middle school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “We were friends in middle school,” he said. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Things went from bad to worse at the beginning of the school year because my brother and sister were both in high school and I was stuck in that yawning chasm of nothingness, middle school. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “You two were friends before he started middle school. Audrey hated that.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z “I’ve seen it. Back when I was a library aide at the middle school.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z That trust helped me survive my first years in hijab and middle school. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z And let’s face it, middle school students aren’t the politest people on the planet. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z When middle school started, they were the set of sixth graders who drew creatures on their homework and did not fight. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The dieting eventually stopped when I hit middle school. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “It tapered off for me in middle school because I started to look less Asian, but even after I got into cheering and it was clear people liked me, I still didn’t fit.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Only the fifth grade wasn’t involved, because they needed to focus on the spring tests to make sure they graduated and moved on to middle school. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z I... As it turns out, the topic was “Should foreign languages be taught in middle school?” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Will I make the difference between winning and losing for the middle school’s soccer team? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Especially in middle school, whenever I felt a little lost or discouraged, she was there for me, knowing what I needed without my having to say it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I didn’t realize this at first because it’s not like kids go around touching each other that much in middle school anyway. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Stories about her had filtered down to Izzy even in middle school. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The main building of the middle school and all the buildings of the high school have been certified as “structurally safe” by a team of engineers hastily assembled by Old Charley Burns. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z This beautiful Mission-style chest was started by Devon for his Eagle Scout project—his voice stops for a moment—and then finished and donated to our middle school by his beloved father. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The middle school office is located in a one- story building that looks like the younger brother of the high school building. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I keep thinking of the time you fell off your bike in middle school. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Right before I started middle school, I had a physical. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Even church sleepover camp when you were in middle school. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z We were literally only a few hours into middle school, but people had already started calling him the Zombie Kid and Freak. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Ever since I started middle school, my parents don’t often come into my room to tuck me in at night, but I love it when they do. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z He was overweight and the kids at his middle school often teased him about his size. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z It’s bad enough my clothes don’t match with the latest fads, but wearing high-waters is considered social suicide in middle school. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Everyone uses calculators in middle school,” I say, not sure if that’s even true. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z After getting three college degrees and spending some time traveling, she will end up teaching social studies in middle school. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z What I always loved most about middle school was that it was separate and different from home. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Eleven hundred kids took in the sight of a genuine middle school hippie—this tall, skinny, longhaired boy in tie-dye, toes poking out of those homemade sandals. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z She’s five years older than me, and in middle school I was in awe of her. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “Are you at the middle school?” one of the guys calls over. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Who’d call their mother, especially if she was generous and nourishing, a middle school? The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z She’s only at school two or three times a week because we share her with the other two middle schools in the district, so I didn’t think she’d have a clue about the sports schedules. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I would come home from elementary and middle school in tears every day because my classmates or even strangers would harass me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I had been too busy trying to survive after the attack, moving to America, attempting to navigate middle school. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Our last year of middle school, what I thought would be the best year of our lives. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z In middle school she hardly let me spend the night at any friends’ houses, even if she’d met their parents. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z But it didn’t work and eventually my brother came by the middle school in his Camaro to pick me up. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s go get our room assignments,” said Mrs. Yunghans, the middle school librarian. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z It doesn’t matter if you’re writing a middle school lab report or a real scientific paper. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “I knew middle school would be good for you.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The summer before he started middle school, before he turned into pond scum, he got a forest-green quilt. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z So of course I went weeping to the teacher, and I spent the majority of middle school trying to live down that one embarrassing event. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He steers our SUV into the road and starts across the neighborhood toward the middle school. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Satyrs mature half as fast as humans, Percy. Grover has been the equivalent of a middle school student for the past six years.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “I think so...It’s just...it’s middle school, Mom. I’m trying to figure things out.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z We are in middle school, and she’s putting us in a time-out. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The middle school has so few students left it can no longer field a baseball team. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The middle school and the high school buildings were too new, and Poppyfield Hall had been carved up into studio and theater spaces. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Were we two objects in motion, hurtling through space, and then an external force—middle school, volleyball, life?—hit us? The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z A cruise ship surrounded by tiny boats in the ocean called middle school. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z By now I was twelve years old and starting my second year of middle school. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “I had a deal with my grandmother that I had to survive 1 year of middle school. I’m already the cleaning lady. I don’t need to stick out any more.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z After just a couple weeks in Rochester, I began another weird new adventure: middle school in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “You couldn’t pay me to go back to middle school.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “I had a nervous stomach in middle school.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It reminds her of how she went to Kiley Tasmin’s house for a sleepover in middle school, and saw a bong under her bed. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I progressed very quickly through school until I reached the equivalent of middle school. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Teachers liked to claim that Maybeck didn’t have cliques like other high schools, and it was true that the place was a refuge for kids like Healy who had been bullied in middle school. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In middle school, kids cast sideways glances at one another; like they’re suspicious of one another. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The twins just graduated from middle school, and ever since they turned thirteen, it’s been all about teen everything—clothes, music, and teenage boys. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z As we pulled out of the driveway, I was anxious, but I knew for certain one thing: I was ready for middle school. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z In the South Bronx, only about 16 percent of all middle school students are performing at or above their grade level in math. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She hadn’t gone to your middle school, and her sense of humor made geometry bearable. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z As someone who had matched her hijab with her sneakers since she was in middle school, I was thrilled to have this creative business venture that was also helping other women look and feel good. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Two middle school buses were pulling into the parking lot. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z It’s only been since we started middle school—ever since she got popular—that Savanna’s become less nice than she used to be. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z In middle school, it got around that we spoke French. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z When it goes off, Maxine asks, “What do you know about that song? That was out when I was in middle school.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The city middle school band had gotten to play at Carnegie Hall. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And once in middle school, when Toby’s dad came home from the Deuce smelling like cheap whiskey. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z So, the day I was supposed to be a welcome buddy, she dropped me off in front of the middle school. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z But in middle school there are so many new kids. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Classes at Graham High started fifty-five minutes earlier than the classes at Trace; the high school kids were off the streets long before the middle school buses finished their routes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Elementary school goes through sixth grade here, so this is our first year in middle school, and even though we’re already halfway through the school year, I still haven’t figured out the point of homeroom. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z But the chest isn’t helping Michael or the people of the middle school that’s getting a new name this summer or the rest of the whole entire community. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I survive my 1st 2 weeks of middle school. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “And,” he said, as heroically as he could under pressure, “I owe it all to Riverview Middle School! The best middle school in the city, maybe the world! Gooooo, Pirates!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Elementary and middle schools could put the January through April-born students in one class, the May through August in another class, and those born in September through December in the third class. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I mean, middle school is like this endless horror show. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “This is fundamental stuff. You should have been trained to do this in middle school. This is basic basketball. The only guy to make a difference on the boards last game was B,” Coach said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Zack bounds down the steps of the bus, thrilled to be in middle school at last. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “I know middle school can be tough, but this is the beginning of such a fun time for you two. Your first taste of independence.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “A friendly but fierce competition against all the other middle schools in our district.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Some seem old enough for middle school, high school. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “So you only want to because I asked when we were in middle school?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z It’s just not the thing I wanted to be known for in middle school. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I wish someone would have told middle school Simon to please try to be awesome. Just try.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z It was such a long shot that all three of us would be accepted, especially when almost no one else from our middle school was. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “You must study very hard in middle school. You see what happened to your brother?” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The only person I’ve really talked to in the last two weeks was Susan, the girl who used to “go with” Michael back in middle school when she had braces. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe a bad nickname from middle school, when you fell asleep on a test and all the ink got on your face?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When I graduate, he’s going to be left alone in middle school. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z But then again, to be fair, Nouri wasn’t in middle school yet. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Then she and the rest of the middle school kids went over and found seats. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Stop being silly. This school is perfect. You can be around other smart kids. It's not college, and it’s not middle school. I’ve called the admissions office to see how we can get you in.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z It couldn’t have been dedicated to anyone else, since it was Zoey’s experiences in middle school that inspired me to write the book. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z You should join the art club in middle school, she says. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “The middle school science fair is February fourteenth!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Even though I maintained an A average in all of my classes in middle school, I had a real aptitude for math and science, which is why my parents tried to steer me toward medicine. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Then the Hope Springs middle school principal talked about the problem with bake sales: promoting healthy food choices versus the importance of student-led fundraising. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I’ve shared her story with students in every middle school I have visited since the book was published ten years ago, and with many parents and teachers as well. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z However, there is no evidence as yet to suggest that the scientists and their families are the targets of the vandalism, although several of their children do attend the middle school. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Right, Tucker Beaumont, the one kid in middle school who didn’t make fun of my accent,” Miles spat. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I wondered if that public defender was going to tell everyone how Mr. Griswald smacked Digger in the eye, too, the night before our Valentine dance in middle school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z We split up by age—the adult class, the high school class, the middle school class, and then there’s a class for the younger kids, and a nursery for the babies. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When I was in middle school, I always liked math class, strange as that sounds. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Seem like in middle school she dress poor, but not . . . well, not like she do now. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z And Vinny and Patrick were actually friends last year in middle school. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “What made the difference for me,” she says, “was the advice someone gave to me back when I was in middle school.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I’d attended so many elementary schools and middle schools I couldn’t keep their names straight anymore but this, this switching high schools all the time thing was really starting to make me want to die. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z No, surviving middle school seemed to be predicated solely on who your friends were. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Britain is teaching a group of eyelash-batting middle school girls how to make spiral staircase friendship bracelets—something I taught him just yesterday. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z By the time she hit middle school, she’d won just about everything there was to win — science fair, debate team, gymnastics, soccer, synchronized Tae Kwon Do. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Even though she’s the only one of the hornets who goes to the public middle school like we do. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I still had one more year at Maplewood Middle School, and sometimes I couldn’t help but wish I could skip the last year of middle school. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z She’s actually really good, but there’s this twelfth-grade guy who’s been the main pianist since he was a freshman, and he’s not about to get booted by a middle school girl in his senior year. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We knock ours against it, give each other dap, and chunk the deuces like we used to do in middle school. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Which is so much harder and bigger and better than anything middle school has to offer. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I believed that going to middle school would be life- changing. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Finally, she says, “So—in elementary and middle school, I was the only Native person in my neighborhood. But that changed when I got to high school.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We will work with the teachers and the administration to see that the issues affecting all of us in middle school are dealt with fairly and honestly. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z And let’s be honest, marrying Simon would be amazing—and not just because I had a sad, secret crush on him for most of middle school. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “Twenty-two-inch rims. Hardly any room for the tires. When we were in middle school, he just had some hubcaps.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “No—I guess he won’t,” I agreed, realizing at the same time that Digger would miss the ceremony this afternoon, the one where we graduated from middle school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The whole middle school had read this book called Lord of the Flies, where all these kids get marooned on an island and go psycho. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z A San Francisco middle school must have a very rigid idea of acceptable clothes if James had taken her question so seriously. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “How about Chokecherry, Colorado, where they paint swastikas at the middle school?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z To Katie, middle school is a waste of time, so she takes more classes than she needs to and does extra credit the way the rest of us drink water. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve seen the little kid ones, but he’s got middle school locked down.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Me and Vega inched down the icy front steps of our middle school. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Two years before Margaret Draper retired, the district reorganized its school system and sent sixth graders to middle school instead of elementary. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z I mean, I was half in love with that kid for most of middle school. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z I shot a squirrel once for Pioneer Day in middle school. City Dwellers With Time to Kill 2011-05-20T22:16:28Z Apter convinces Emanuel and Farrell that one of the headliners should be none other than the comedian Solomon Gladman — whom Apter has admired and been influenced by since he was in middle school. Heard the One About the Hole That Swallowed Part of Chicago? 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z The town is famed for a middle school that puts students through rigorous 14-hour days in preparation for the exam, which begins on Wednesday and is usually spread over two days. Soup and prayers soothe apprehensive Chinese test takers 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z When Jeff was in middle school, my wife noticed he was getting home late from school, sometimes a little dusted up. Modern Love: Modern Love - A Father, a Son and a Fighting Chance 2012-06-14T20:45:23Z I frequently thank my lucky stars that the internet didn’t exist when I was in middle school, yet here I was committing Lyra’s age-appropriate struggles to the semi-permanence of Google Books search results. Great Draft, Dad. I Have Some Notes. 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z But on this Monday in February, she had been with thousands of other kids, touring middle schools to answer questions about her documentary “Blackfish.” ‘Blackfish’s’ director finds it hard to move on 2014-03-20T17:38:26Z To plug the gap on the issue, Conolly implemented the Signs of Suicide Prevention Program in every middle school in her district this year. Teen suicides are on the rise. Here’s what parents can do to slow the trend. 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The leap from elementary to middle school is a vulnerable time. Seven steps parents can take to ensure kids work for the right kind of popularity 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z In middle school, Caldwell says, kids’ brains are primed for sensation seeking. What to Do When Your Kid Gets Bored This Summer 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Both Pappas and Kroll, whose Emmy-nominated animated comedy show "Big Mouth" explores the emotional ravages of middle school, said it was refreshing to work without a rigid script. Nick Kroll on returning to his filmmaking roots and the recommended age for starting "Big Mouth" 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The play’s premise and structure come from childhood memories of Mr. Sheppard, who participated in a history-lesson game devised by teachers in his middle school. Let’s Play ‘Underground Railroad Game’: A Lacerating Comedy on Race 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z A high school student in the Chetek-Weyerhaeuser school district in Wisconsin and a middle school student in Wentzville, Mo., have also been disciplined for wearing the shirts, according to local news reports. American Teenagers Are Declaring ‘Virginity Rocks’ 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Present graduation documentation from middle school, high school or an accredited two- or four-year college and receive 25 percent off the rates. Cheap Southwest flights to Puerto Rico, and more of the best travel deals 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z In December, Mr. Alexander spoke to a group of middle school students at Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn. Kwame Alexander to Start His Own Imprint. The Name? Versify. Get It? 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Elijah, who just graduated from high school, suffered from acute anxiety and missed a year of middle school. An Addict, a Confessed Killer and Now a Debut Author 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z In middle school there were all these cheeky euphemisms for menstrual cycles. Perspective | It was a wave election. The wave was women defending abortion rights. 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Starting foreign language in middle school is late, compared with many developed countries that require instruction in one, or sometimes two, foreign languages in elementary school. Parents want elementary pupils to learn foreign languages -- but where? One's heading to middle school, the other to high school. Perspective | How do we help our tweens and teens with the return to school? 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z In either case, it cost the author his job as an assistant principal at a middle school. Don’t Mess With Pepe 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Brewer is an assistant professor of social foundations of education at the University of North Georgia and a former high school and middle school social studies teacher. Homeschoolers want you to believe the pandemic has a silver lining — they’re wrong 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z I had started drinking 2% milk in middle school and none by my second year of high school. There's no "tough" way to order a latte — but I'm drinking them anyway 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z He was in middle school when that world started to intrigue him. This Life: A jail term, a job and a second chance 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z One of Mr. Mounk’s middle school classmates accuses him of lying about his Judaism: “Stop making things up! Everybody knows that the Jews don’t exist anymore!” Books of The Times: How Yascha Mounk Grew Up a ‘Stranger in My Own Country’ 2014-01-14T21:22:09Z Stories like this perpetuate the cultural narrative that middle school is a time of social churn and suffering, but they paint an incomplete picture. Perspective | Seven ways parents and educators can improve kids’ middle school experience 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z My students are on track to become elementary and middle school teachers in about a year. Amanda Gorman’s poetry shows why spoken word belongs in school 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z The movie is adapted from Jeff Kinney's cartoon novel about a sixth grader maneuvering through the intricate social structure at his middle school, which includes its own "cooties" game known as the "cheese touch." `Alice' still reigns at box office with $34.5M 2010-03-21T20:16:00Z It’s about the normal ups and downs of middle school friendship and family life, as experienced by a funny, likable 13-year-old girl who happens to be fat. Can an Advice Columnist Help This Middle Schooler? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The movies would have you believe that middle school kids are either brutish oafs or tender snowflakes, eternally on the receiving end of wedgies, noogies and taunts. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: short on drama but lots of fun – first look review 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The summer before middle school, the girls are at their most curious, most attached. Claire Messud’s ‘The Burning Girl’ takes on a fraught friendship with splendorous prose 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z She developed a crush on Shakespeare in middle school and starred in musicals throughout high school. Playwright Dominique Morisseau Can’t Forget the Motor City 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Last week, a number of students at a New Jersey middle school were sent to the nurse’s office after consuming the beverage and becoming ill. “Anti-energy” drink sickens kids 2012-12-04T23:21:00Z Biden’s lawn decorations were not a sophisticated affair; one critic posited that they were meant to resemble candy hearts but “looked like they’d been built by a middle school stage crew.” Jill Biden decorates White House with Valentine’s Day hearts for second year in a row 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Jaime and Maya — who share their perspectives in comic panels and in prose — learn more about what they value in friends as they navigate this middle school drama. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘True Friends’ 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z But it has also now been banned from the Riverside Unified School District middle schools in California. John Green's Response To "The Fault In Our Stars" Being Banned Is Perfect 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z “I remember going there all throughout middle school and being like, ‘Wow, I wish I could skate backwards and do these cool tricks,’” he said. How New York Got a Glorious Throwback Roller-Skating Extravaganza 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z One accuser was a former student; Bailey taught her in middle school. Perspective | Philip Roth and the sympathetic biographer: This is how misogyny gets cemented in our culture 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Tormented for her “fish lips” in middle school and self-conscious about her flat chest as a teen, Richards opted for breast implants at 19 and had a second augmentation just before shooting “Wild Things.” The unbelievable believability of Denise Richards 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z A folie à deux is a forgivable response to the rigors of middle school. The Giddy Surreality and Emotional Honesty of “PEN15” 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z I asked the experts to picture an especially troubled middle school. How to Beat Trump, According to Experts on Middle-School Bullies 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z The net result: “I went through the entirety of first school and half of middle school with a mouth full of disgusting, stinking plaque.” My autism led me to become a champion of outsiders 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z This doesn’t mean your daughter can’t build resilience and ready herself for her middle school years. Perspective | A sensitive 10-year-old is scared by movies and stories. What’s a parent to do? 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Late elementary and middle school kids are beginning to grasp some big concepts surrounding loss. What to Say to Your Kids When Holidays Aren't Happy 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z He boasted that his spring break trips provided experiences “far outside a typical family vacation” and of his “special appreciation for the middle school age group”. How did one of the worst paedophiles in history get away with his crimes? | Robert Booth 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Around middle school a writing mentor introduced me to the writing of Sonia Sanchez, and gave me a book of her new and selected poems, “Shake Loose My Skin.” Amanda Gorman, the Inaugural Poet Who Dreams of Writing Novels 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Before the series starts, it will mail posters, a teacher's guide and family viewing guide to 35,000 high schools and middle schools. History channel offering series to schools 2010-03-15T16:57:00Z Kids at elementary and middle schools in another city, Chichibu, are attending class on alternate weekdays. Schools in Japan reopen with new rules to help stop spread of covid-19 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z There are children’s story hours and seniors doing yoga and middle school kids working on class projects. 12 Authors Write About the Libraries They Love 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z He went to school at Carr Manor primary, St Matthew's middle school and Leeds grammar before Cambridge university and a successful career in theatre. Fond farewell to Ian Brown at the West Yorkshire Playhouse as James Brining's era begins 2012-06-27T17:00:00Z I have two children of my own, one in high school, the other in middle school. Riding the Rails to the Summer of Love 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z If your daughter liked a guy in middle school who already had a girlfriend, would you tell her to charge ahead, regardless? Perspective | Ask Amy: Widow bounces into new relationship 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z There was a joke that zipped around my middle school: “What’s worse than a worm in your apple?” Their Romance Dissolved. So the Heroines of This Novel Seek Their Roots. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z But many of us who are from poverty remember exactly how those conversations went with our friends who struggled their way through middle school and couldn't see high school as an option. When I heard Takeoff had been shot and killed, two words came to my mind 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z When I was in middle school, I was under the impression that if a scandal was uncovered, it would be a topic of discussion for months. Han Han: I had to break my Twitter obsession 2012-10-07T21:30:00Z Once diagnosed, he was expelled from middle school and became a poster child for young people afflicted with the disease. Elton John remembers Ryan White at his AIDS gala 2012-10-16T12:24:10Z Cormier, who used to be a middle school science teacher, immediately knew it was a fossil. Woman on beach finds fossil from unknown animal likely older than dinosaurs 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Elsie Fisher earned a Golden Globe nomination for her lead role as Kayla, a shy eighth grader navigating the final week of middle school. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Eighth Grade’ and ‘The Passage’ 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z She was met with boos and hisses the second she stepped onstage from a crowd that consisted of mostly high school and middle school students. Melania Trump is booed while speaking to students in Baltimore 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z He went to his first one when he was in middle school and felt a world of possibility open up: “It clued me in as a kid that, ‘OK, you can make a band. Alex G and the Art of Interesting Choices 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z “Underground Railroad Game,” presented at Ars Nova, was an audacious exploration of slavery in the guise of a misguided middle school history lesson. Which Off Broadway Shows Did Obie Awards Like Best? ‘Oslo’ and ‘Underground Railroad Game’ Share Top Honors 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z She taught at, and developed curriculum for, public middle schools in Manhattan from 1996 through 2000 before moving back to Hawaii to earn a Ph.D. in international comparative education. 'Ladder to the Moon' glows 2011-05-14T02:17:09Z Her son will graduate from high school this spring, and her daughter from middle school, and Jimenez is grieving those disrupted rites of passage along with her children. Fear, joy, grief, gratitude: The whiplash of parenting during existential chaos 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z She volunteered with her mom when she was little and on her own later, with City Year in middle school and now with Seattle University’s Just Serve program. Kids in need get gift of music 2013-09-09T05:01:08Z He knows that as his daughter moves into middle school, her life will probably get harder, more serious. Slime is everywhere. It’s everywhere. Slime is everywhere. 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Children from military families may move seven or eight times before they hit middle school. Seven steps parents can take to ensure kids work for the right kind of popularity 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z The acne that plagued me in middle school has since disappeared. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z She became the star of the student morning broadcasts in middle school and tried to participate in class more. How parents can help introverts thrive (without trying to turn them into extroverts) 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Among other priorities at Music Theater International, Mr. Gershon has built up its Broadway Junior division, which adapts musicals into shows running 70 minutes or so that are intended for middle school children to perform. Kennedy Center to Award Grants in Honor of Sondheim 2010-09-28T14:59:00Z Di Bella, Asheville Pinball Museum owner and former middle school teacher, says with a shrug, even as he adds that insisting it’s not a museum rubs him “the wrong way.” A pinball museum? There has to be a twist. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z If the Bad Place architects built a hell just for me, it would be a screening room filled to capacity, playing all of my most embarrassing moments from middle school on a 24/7 loop. Middle school was hell. "PEN15" makes me (almost) want to go back 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z She moved here in 2009 with her family when her husband was hired as the head of the middle school at Battle Ground Academy, a private day school that was established in 1889. A Small-Town Gem Near Nashville 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z I never pull more than what would prevent me from wearing my hair up, or too much in places immediately noticeable, as I did in middle school, tempting as that spot remains to this day. My secret hair pulling 2012-09-09T00:00:00Z These questions arise when his son, bullied at his middle school and in danger of flunking history, needs help with a research project on the subject of heroes. Latino history with professor John Leguizamo, the CliffsNotes edition 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z “I expected middle school to be tough, but not this tough.” Perspective | Seven ways parents and educators can improve kids’ middle school experience 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z The last known serial killer to prey on women in the nation’s capital started his work 20 years ago on the outfield grass of a middle school baseball field. D.C.’s last serial killer: The Princeton Place murders, 20 years later Across the street, an art teacher leads middle school students in an activity connecting sculpture with nature. He believes in the arts as a basic right for kids. He is getting a $200,000 award for working for that 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z What time is the appointment, when is the deadline, when is the middle school dance and the money for yearbooks due? You can pry my paper planner from my cold, cramping hands 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Some students are exposed to Goddard’s educational programs as early as middle school and high school. U-Md.-Goddard programs offer students out-of-this-world opportunities An elementary school and a middle school in Kane County were each placed on lockdown this week after a single bullet was found in hallways at both locations, officials said today. Bullets found in hallways of 2 Kane Co. schools 2012-01-26T17:29:00Z In middle school I discovered Stephen King and tore through “The Shining” and “Carrie.” Mindy Kaling: By the Book 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Freeman, who came to the city from Seattle and taught science in middle school and high school in the Bronx for two years, met Ms. Burke through an online dating site. Artist?s ?Key to the City? Is One Woman?s Date Night 2010-06-23T23:52:00Z Vinaite had a tough time at school, especially when she moved up to middle school. Bria Vinaite: from Instagram entrepreneur to starring opposite Willem Dafoe 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z The squat brick building served as the set for a beleaguered middle school in the fourth season of David Simon’s TV series “The Wire.” Can the arts save Baltimore? 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z It is also investigating the banning of Slaughterhouse-Five from another Missouri school and the removal of six books by Hopkins from a Nevada middle school library. Campaigners defend 'celebrated novels' from US censors 2010-09-27T10:55:00Z My earliest memories of Food Network were made when I was in middle school. While the Food Network is in flux, Magnolia shows there’s still a hunger for stand-and-stir TV 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z I have two teenagers so middle school is still a fresh trauma for us. "PEN15" stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle: "We still feel like we're in seventh grade" 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The first day of middle school, in band class, each student had to pick a musical instrument to learn. A Counterculture Portraitist’s Chronicle of New York’s Youth 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z “I was in middle school before things got as awful as they did for Scarlett,” said Scarlett’s mother, Annelizabeth, who asked that her last name not be used to protect her daughter. Cultural Studies: The Playground Gets Even Tougher 2010-10-08T19:50:00Z In middle school, I used to wear these really big shirts and I would pull on them a lot to hide myself from the bullies at school. Waving Goodbye to ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z We attended a small, private, hippie-leaning alternative elementary and middle school that was a universe unto itself, and formed unusually close bonds with our teachers. I was raped — and now I can finally say it 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z From their interviews, the researchers found that students fell into one of four groups: “low” daters, “increasing” daters, “frequent” daters, and those who dated often in middle school but less in later years. High school dorks need not despair 2013-04-01T19:42:00Z That trickled down to their kids who then started taking it in when they were in middle school, from their parents' pill cupboard. In solving his own son's murder, "The Pharmacist" also took on the opioid epidemic 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z She remembers a middle school discussion about Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter being the “first time I came alive in school.” Those babies who got kissed by presidential candidates? Here’s who they became. 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z While fidget spinners keep on spinning, a new trend is oozing through middle schools nationwide: slime, a sticky homemade version of Silly Putty. Move aside, fidget spinners: The newest kid craze is a sticky substance called slime 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z A move from racially diverse Columbia City to predominantly white Wallingford during middle school was a particularly tough transition as she became one of only three Black kids at Hamilton International Middle School. Seattle’s Lady A confronts white privilege in battle with country stars and beyond 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Gilbert Bolden III, another City Ballet dancer, who said he was bullied throughout middle school, was an impressive sight on Monday — he took class in point shoes, which are usually the province of female dancers. Lara Spencer Apologizes, and There’s Ballet Dancing in the Streets 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z By the time he reached middle school, he was 6 feet tall and his teachers encouraged him to play sports. He’s a 6-foot-6 corrections-officer-turned-singer. And D.C.’s toddlers love him. 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z At the same time, it is grounded in Khan’s Muslim heritage and the diversity of many of today’s middle schools. A step toward greater diversity in children’s books: Hena Khan’s ‘Amina’s Voice’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Two outcasts, one who lives in the permanent misery of the undead, the other in the misery of middle school, find comfort in each other. 'Let Me In' Review: A Vampire Remake Worth Welcoming 2010-10-16T14:35:00Z Even Salt Lake City middle schools like the one Elizabeth Smart attended. Mormonism’s most dangerous morality lesson 2013-05-16T18:00:00Z She had done the show in middle school, playing Addaperle, a good witch, because back then “I was too nervous to audition for Dorothy,” she said. ‘The Wiz,’ With Added Street Cred, Heads for TV and Broadway 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z During middle school he developed a severe stutter, known as a block. Paul Taylor Chooses a Successor 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Yes, surveys show that teens are reading less, a slump that begins in middle school. Perspective | How to encourage teenagers — especially boys — to read this summer 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z It stuck with her until middle school, when she was bullied again for developing early. In Good Spirits 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Washington Middle School ensembles placed third and fourth for best middle school band. Seattle-area school jazz bands win top awards 2013-04-30T19:08:55Z Graves, who describes herself as a perfectionist, moved East from Phoenix to Alexandria with her family when she was in middle school. Perspective | You love theater? So do these 12 D.C. stage dynamos. 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Kane supplemented the regular back-to-school event with a private tour with the vice principal when her son, now 17, started middle school. Three ways to ease your child’s back-to-school jitters 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z It will give you flashbacks to middle school, no matter how popular you were; that’s pretty much guaranteed. Review: Retracing the Path From Middle School Nerd to Rock Goddess 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z At his middle school, dance battles weren’t uncommon, and he performed for a number of his teen years with the Y Troop, a competitive hip-hop dance group based out of his local community center. Multilayered Paintings That Pay Tribute to Hip-Hop Dances 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Your daughter is in her early middle school years, only rounding the corner on her tween years. How can I make my daughter enjoy learning? 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z By middle school in real life, I had in certain ways figured out how to hide it a little bit more. "PEN15" stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle: "We still feel like we're in seventh grade" 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Addy watched as I filled the closet with polo shirts and khakis required at my middle school. We were American Girls: What Addy taught me about Black hair, freedom and myself 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z When David was a senior, Riley wasn’t even a freshman; she was in middle school. Date Lab: ‘We were sort of roasting each other,’ he says 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z I first heard of Mr. Gregory back in ’90s when I was in middle school. Lessons from Dick Gregory: Always tackle the elephants in the room 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z While Dad doesn’t suddenly stop drinking, he does show up to see Lou play the guitar in the middle school talent show. In-Betweens: 2 Middle Grade Novels About the Costs and Benefits of Being 11 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z As the first day of middle school grew closer, I couldn’t help but get excited about the opportunity to reinvent myself. My Two-House, Duffel-Bag Life 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z M3GAN sets it up like a young leading lady about to kill it in her middle school production of "Camelot." How "M3GAN" weaponizes music 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z The groom’s mother retired as a middle school math teacher from Arvida Middle School in Miami. Nancy Gutman, Steven Matz 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z During middle school, she blossomed, participating in the school musicals and making friends. Motherlode Blog: Letting a Daughter with Development Disorders Grow Up 2012-07-24T11:00:59Z We became really best friends throughout middle school. Nick Kroll Turned His Embarrassing Puberty Stories into a New Series 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Sequences spent with a former steelworker in Ohio, or an overwhelmed middle school principal in Oakland build an organic sense of what needs to change in the United States. ‘The Great American Lie’ Review: Another Interpretation of the Dream 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z The board decided to include middle school students because the middle and high schools are close in proximity and run by the same administration - and because middle school girls are getting pregnant too. Oregon school district to offer condoms to students starting in 6th grade 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The vast majority of Chicago middle school students are surely aware of the reality of violence and its devastating effects on people of all ages. Persepolis battle in Chicago schools provokes outcry 2013-03-19T14:50:01Z They didn’t understand that lugging a bulky violin case ran counter to my daily middle school mission of being invisible. How a violin helped me find my voice 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z I've always had the sense of being a bit weird, a bit of an outsider—a feeling that slowly lessens, of course, the further I get from middle school. When I wanted to find my people, I found them in the "food women" living all across the globe 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z SAT Master woodworker Evert Sodergren honored at showing of his Living Treasures documentary film, benefits Coyote Central woodworking courses for middle school students, 5 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-02-14T00:00:27Z I used to cry when I didn’t get an A on my tests in middle school. John McEnroe: ‘Mum only came to my tennis matches if she thought I was going to lose’ 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z She ordered a pair from Old Navy to be delivered to her Las Cruces, N.M., home, but when she put them on — well, they didn’t look any better than they did in middle school. The Jean War between millennials and Gen Z cannot be won 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z We were inseparable until she went to high school and left me to fend for myself in those unimaginable middle school bouts of self-doubt. Beyond Cool, She Was Fly. Her Confidence Gave Me Wings. 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z This is reminiscent of how Hulu's comedy "PEN15" depicts how it middle school BFFs are suddenly convinced they have become witches and use this newfound magic to try and get boys to like them. From astrology to tax policy, tween girls contain multitudes on “The Baby-Sitters Club” 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z Five years ago, Jacqueline Ellis, a suburban Philadelphia middle school English teacher, searched the Internet for a new home, and mortgage. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z We met in homeroom on the first day of middle school, both new and friendless, having just left the womb of elementary school. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z I was only vaguely aware of this as a child, but in middle school I couldn’t ignore it. “Brillo head,” “Don King,” “Sideshow Bob”: It took me years to embrace the hair that white people scorned 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z From middle school onward, she was her family’s sole breadwinner. Review | Natalie Wood’s daughter opens up about the life and death of her famous mom 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Konkle: And go to middle school as the foster children to hide from the cult, but as adults. "PEN15" stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle: "We still feel like we're in seventh grade" 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Sherry tells the story of her family's emotional progress in a series of humor-tinged vignettes, as she begins her part-time job as an art teacher at the local middle school. 'Tigers Be Still' treats depression with wry humor 2010-10-07T20:44:00Z My mom made me take these theater classes in middle school. William Jackson Harper on ‘Primary Trust’: ‘I Needed to Do This Play’ 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z In the middle school of the American collective imagination, packs of filthy-minded boys stalk the halls, snapping bras and howling at the cliff’s edge of puberty. The Lustful Middle School Girl Rises 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z His church, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, has established mentoring programs for girls and boys in middle school and high school. Thanksgiving turkey giveaway honors slain rapper Young Dolph 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z In Boonville, where her farm is, she teaches evening classes and volunteers at the local middle school, which serves many children of undocumented agricultural workers. Part Teacher, Part Den Mother, a Composer Fosters Diversity 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z It was 2003, and both were at a pool party before their first year of middle school at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles. She Liked What She Saw (on His T-shirt) 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The groom’s mother is a middle school history teacher and high school admissions counselor at Visitation Academy, a Roman Catholic elementary and middle school for girls in Brooklyn. Pekham Pal, Nicholas Santangelo 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z In Quebec and I think in the rest of Canada there’s no middle school. How I knew I could cook: It's easy, if you're born to it 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z They were in middle school, high school, absorbed in their own thing. How an Almost-Divorce Kept Them Together 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z And I knew I wanted to write a book for middle school. Firoozeh Dumas sees the humor amid middle-school stress 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The fact Erskine and Konkle are 34 years old – an entire drinking-aged adult and then some removed from middle school – is a piece of trivia that exists well beyond the sheltered world they live in. As "PEN15" draws to a close, we're left in the hell of seventh grade, exactly as it should be 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z The actress best known for "The Help" has a deal with Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers for a pair of detective novels for middle school students. Octavia Spencer writing books for middle schoolers 2012-10-11T12:31:05Z Escaping middle school drama for Hale is about cultivating the imagination to find your own way. Mastering Middle School Friendship Drama 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Thais Perkins is the owner of Reverie Books in Austin, Texas, and the parent of a middle school student and high school student. Prize-winning 1619 Project now coming out in book form 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z She is a juror for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, a high school and middle school writing and art competition, based in New York. Ashira Greene, William Beutler 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Even as Hogan reflects, there’s a tone of almost disbelief that a glass program in a middle school was able to not just survive, but grow over 27 years and counting. Tacoma Art Museum’s ‘GATHER’ exhibit highlights 27 years of Hilltop Artists glassblowing programs for young people 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Mila is confused when the boys at her middle school start paying attention to her. The best children’s books of 2019 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z I arrived prepared to get my middle school students back to working and thinking. Motherlode Blog: The First Day in the Classroom, After a Hurricane 2012-11-05T16:21:35Z I also think because we've had years from being in middle school, you can see the years of depth or emotional understanding that we have as adults placed into that. "PEN15" stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle: "We still feel like we're in seventh grade" 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z “Ms. Dallas” focuses on Verona Dallas of 6B, a paraprofessional in a middle school who works alongside a new teacher who has a savior complex. Family, Home and Heartbreak in Three Debuts 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Two headline results are these: Bullying prevention programs fail to take into account a number of factors, including the fact that youth who bully in middle school tend to be popular and powerful. How bullying sets the stage for the development of sexual harassment 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z This funny, heartwarming and sometimes cringe-inducing take on middle school is sure to resonate deeply with its young audience. Graphic Novels That Will Keep Kids Reading 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z She was 12 or 13 when it started, a victim of bullying at a middle school in Denver. Le Butcherette's Teri Suarez still angry, even without the pig's head 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z In middle school, highly amorous students were twice as likely to have tried alcohol, been drunk, smoked cigarettes, and toked up than members of the lonely hearts club. High school dorks need not despair 2013-04-01T19:42:00Z She liked the comic — and remembers getting caught in middle school reading Clowes’s books — but the movie “is not my favorite.” ‘The African Desperate’ Expands the Movies’ Narrow View of the Art World 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z I attended high school and middle school with my best friend who was a trans girl. Janet Mock’s advice to media: “See trans people as people” 2014-02-06T00:00:00Z Henry, a married father of four who works for Baltimore’s health department, co-founded the city’s chapter in 2011 and has helped implement wrestling programs in middle schools across the city. He’s bringing Baltimore youths to the wrestling mats as a way to thrive 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z The thing about middle school is that it eventually comes to an end. Childhood Tales From the Chelsea Hotel 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z A middle school classmate with a wild older brother had gotten a hold of a copy of “Jaws.” Perspective | Summer reading has a fraught history. But if there was ever a time to delight in escapism, it’s now. 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Basically, my older son had hit middle school. “It’s not a women’s problem, it’s a workplace problem”: Anne-Marie Slaughter on the crisis at the heart of the “having it all” problem 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Li also mined her memories about another middle school experience: the science fair. A friendship is at the heart of ‘Clues to the Universe’ 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z And as her fan base hit middle school, she was instantly rendered uncool to an entire generation. Breaking: Miley Cyrus isn't 11 anymore 2011-09-08T17:09:00Z We attended the same middle school, lost touch during our high school years, and then reunited when she moved two doors down from me with her cousin, my homeboy. The evolution of my Thanksgiving plate 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z In middle school, in a brief but intense pulling spell, I attacked the crown of my head. My secret hair pulling 2012-09-09T00:00:00Z After a restless sleep in an Airbnb in a St. Simons condo, with loud ducks outside my window sounding like the horn section of a middle school orchestra, I wanted to leave this posh enclave. Encounters With Ghosts on Georgia’s Golden Isles 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z In middle school he’d order stickers in bulk on Amazon, then sell them at a markup to his classmates by promoting them on Snapchat. Here’s What’s Happening in the American Teenage Bedroom 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Quite an achievement for a 24-year-old playwright who was in middle school when Mr. Obama was elected and is making his professional debut. Review: African-American Flight 1619 Now Boarding in ‘Ain’t No Mo’ 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z “He was private, and there’s still things I don’t talk about,” said Frank Nitt, Dilla’s close friend since middle school whose music he later produced as part of the group Frank-n-Dank. J Dilla Was a Revered Rap Producer. A New Book Deepens His Legacy. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Q: You're going to middle school next year, like your character does in the film. Eastsider Karan Brar, age 11, has key role in 'Wimpy Kid' 2010-03-18T19:12:00Z One middle school teacher complained students were leaving a trail of sticky red fingerprints everywhere they went. Hot Cheetos are getting their own biopic, but might land you in hospital 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Three parents at the middle school said they would keep their children at home because of the incident, Stern said. Bullets found in hallways of 2 Kane Co. schools 2012-01-26T17:29:00Z “I loved the book in middle school when I read it and seeing it live and seeing the characters come to life, it’s so much more real,” said Alissa DiCristo, 17. Kids shine as Broadway’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ goes big 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The bride, 28, and groom, 29, founded Bites Media, an online news platform for middle school and high school students in Los Angeles. Emily David, Nicholas Farrell 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Entering a middle school where everyone knows each other is difficult, and it doesn’t sound like it got better. Perspective | Our 15-year-old daughter is mostly friendless. Should we help her? 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z And there were also those non-friends, including the girls who bullied my daughter in middle school and the boys that bullied me in school, long before there even was an Internet. The 'Real World" Is A Lot More Dangerous Than Cyberspace 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z A carjacking charge reportedly followed when he was just in middle school, and he spent his teens in and out of school and juvenile detention centers. Review | Kodak Black, mired in controversy, is a tough act to reckon with 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z To viewers at home, they looked like a pair of middle school drama students who had both missed their cue. Is Ben Carson the worst or the best surrogate of all time? Yes. 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Thanks to its lurid subject matter and its often easy-to-decipher morals, Mr. Bradbury’s work is often taught in middle school. An Appraisal: Ray Bradbury, Who Made Science Fiction Respectable 2012-06-07T02:58:01Z Teaching ate me alive Topics: , , , , , It wasn’t one single incident that made me quit teaching in a public middle school. Teaching ate me alive 2012-09-15T19:00:00Z Teams of students from every middle school are building prototypes to address an environmental sustainability issue. 7 strategies to help prepare your child for the rapidly changing work world 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z “I carried around a bonsai book all the time, too, so I was made hard-core fun of in middle school.” Meet the Brad Pitt of Bonsai 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z I was in middle school when “The Wire” was made — it filmed near McCulloh Homes and also sometimes near Harlem Park, where my school was located. ‘They Conflated “The Wire” With Reality’ 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z A: Thank you for this letter; it’s full of parenting troubles, from feeling dismissed to middle school independence to guidelines on behavior. Perspective | I feel dismissed by my tween. How can I connect while still holding boundaries? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Judith Warner interviews scores of fellow middle school survivors in her accomplished and highly readable new book, “And Then They Stopped Talking to Me.” Traumatized by Memories of Middle School? You Are Not Alone 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Bridgette went to the middle school down the block from the porch where our father died, staining the cement with a pool of blood. My father, the woman 2012-06-15T23:30:00Z From the “backhanded sting of Not Really Black” to the default ostracization of the “Black table” at his middle school cafeteria, the penetrating buildup of outside judgment turned into his own rite of passage. What It Means to Be the ‘Token’ Black Kid in a Rich, White World 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z People finally got around to calling me homophobic slurs in middle school, but the words lost part of their power when I acknowledged that, yes, I liked men. “I blamed Adam Sandler for ruining my life” 2014-03-21T17:08:00Z The concept of the shirt was that these are his middle school basketball jerseys. Ravi Kapoor on his comedy "Four Samosas": "I always wanted to make a lo-fi heist movie" 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Inspired by the adult-seeming protagonists, I wore eyeliner and high heels to my middle school dances and got my uniform skirt hemmed as high as my parents would allow. How the Clique Books Taught Me to Hate Other Girls and Myself 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z “I was in middle school before I realized it was weird that my dad made up a language.” How a community of obscure language inventors made it big with ‘Game of Thrones’ 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z David Biener said his son and daughter completed work sheets in math and history while sitting on the gym floor at their middle school. New teachers group joins Los Angeles educators in strike 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z “PEN15’s” theme of friendship is almost deceptively simple: The only sure way for Maya and Anna to survive middle school is to stick together, even when their bond is routinely tested. Review | In ‘PEN15,’ two women play themselves at 13 and it’s not just another nostalgia trip 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Hansard fell in love with Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Van Morrison — they are still his holy trinity — and quit middle school to start playing on Dublin streets. Pop: Glen Hansard, Touring Behind His ‘Rhythm and Repose’ 2012-06-22T16:00:01Z When I do this with my middle school students, I invite anyone who is stumped to come meet with me. Teen suicides are on the rise. Here’s what parents can do to slow the trend. 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z All the kids at my middle school bumped him. Don't just watch "Surviving R. Kelly": The Lifetime series alone won't be the end of the story 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z Season 4, often called the show’s finest, followed four middle school friends on divergent paths, most of them heartbreaking. ‘The Wire’ in Five Scenes 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z They would be reflections from bureaucrats and wage slaves, from stay-at-home moms and retired managers, from middle school kids and people who are illiterate. “Comment sections are brilliant and extremely relevant”: Christy Wampole on the awfulness of Facebook, the utility of “think pieces” and why you might be reading the Internet all wrong 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z And focusing on the videos, the 13-year-old Nilah Rivera, a middle school student in New York, found them “trying too hard to be trendy.” Martha Stewart Welcomes You to Generation Ageless 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The Shopping Cart Theory has even reached academia — if middle school counts as academia. Everyone Has a Theory About Shopping Carts 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z Those are the first words they learned when they signed up for Austin Willacy’s course at the middle school camp. Sitka campers sound it out with beatboxing 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Sanneh said the museum is probably best for kids of middle school age and up, because that’s around the time when children can process and engage with the material. Tips for taking children to the new Legacy Museum and lynching memorial in Alabama 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Last night she was crying over moving to middle school in 1 1/2 years. Help, my 10-year-old hates change 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Even though you play friends who are in the same middle school together, you grew up on opposite coasts. "PEN15" stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle: "We still feel like we're in seventh grade" 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z And at the matinee I saw, it failed to connect with its audience — or at least the several dozen middle school students in attendance, who napped, whispered, fidgeted and surreptitiously checked phones. Review: At ‘Tartuffe’ in the Park, Hypocrisy Is No Picnic 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z He has just joined the Forensic Science Club, where he’s acquiring the skills necessary to solve a series of “staged crimes” at his middle school. Young Sleuths Hot on the Trail of Their Own Identities 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Her roles over the years have included college admissions counselor, middle school teacher, author and youth minister. Ohio podcaster, nearly 80, shares hope, love, laughter: 'This day is the only thing I have' 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Middle School Students Reading Marathon: All Seattle middle school students encouraged to participate, school with the most reading hours logged wins grand prize, all welcome to attend to support readers, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Community Corner: Seattle City Hall Open House, Lunar New Year 2012-01-27T19:00:08Z As it happens, one of my "babies" is gone tonight: my oldest son is on a two-night trip with his middle school. Motherlode Blog: A Stuffed Toy Comes Home 2012-09-12T18:08:07Z Growing up in the suburbs of Denver, he began playing bass in middle school. Robert Black, Bass Virtuoso of the Avant-Garde, Is Dead at 67 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z As a middle school teacher living with two others, I was often surrounded by people. The best place to feel lonely is in a bagel shop 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Like middle school itself, this premiere season could be awkward and excruciating, and yet somehow its bumps made it only more memorable. Best TV Shows of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z I just was looking around, it kind of feels like middle school play. "I'm actually not freezing my eggs": Nikki Glaser opens up about comedy, fertility and oversharing 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z She is also, in many respects, a child, a person whose ordinary life stopped in middle school. 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt' is '30 Rock' funny 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Colbert showed a photograph on his phone of the middle school where he had voted earlier that day. For Stephen Colbert, a Very Uncomfortable Election Night 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z But as he depicts his flailing attempts to help his son prepare a crucial middle school project on Latino heroes, he clearly counts himself among the “morons” of his play’s title. Review: John Leguizamo Turns Nutty Professor in ‘Latin History for Morons’ 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Now at an arts-focused public middle school, Brook has made some other films, including animated pieces shown at a children's film festival. Teen's film looks at 9/11 through youths' memories 2011-04-29T19:32:19Z He says "With regards to where I am with Tomboy, I'm definitely reliving middle school." Top 10 albums of the autumn 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z And being an author and speaker and going into middle schools and high schools, I was seeing a lot of the same books that I read and they followed a similar theme. Poet Michele Serros dies at 48 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Kindt’s middle school team also prepared two sandwiches, including one with freshly roasted turkey, cranberry sauce, romaine and a mayonnaise flavored like stuffing. Former Noma chef turns his talents to school food. But will students go for it? 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z She replies that she’s been writing since she was in fourth grade and creating art since she was in middle school. Game show “Paid Off” targets the student loan crisis: A subversive warning about a looming em... 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z In middle school, I started to draw and my pencil sketches were huge. Jeff Kinney: 'People ask me, is Greg really you?' 2012-12-01T00:05:34Z In middle school, she went through a phase where she didn't want to listen to anyone because of the hurt she felt from her father not being there. Trauma ran away with my childhood: Losing my father to violence forced me to grow up fast 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z Across the street is a troubled local public middle school, which is primarily black and seemingly under-resourced. Motherlode: Talking About Race (Etc.) 2011-03-10T18:27:57Z She relocated about eight years ago to attend middle school in Morristown, N.J., and later went to Beth Rivkah high school in Brooklyn. In a Week, Moving a Wedding from Ukraine to New York 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z I'm four years older than my sister, and don't feel any aching pain to go back to those of years of middle school when I would stay up late Saturday night and watch SNICK. Tween nostalgia: Closing the time gap of pop longing 2011-07-25T19:45:00Z He said he was always interested in “metaphysical things” and in middle school looked into meditation and hypnosis. After the deluge, a mushroom hunt in the urban forest 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z In “Hoot,” Carl Hiaasen’s first children’s book, a middle school boy and his two odd friends discover that a construction project threatens to destroy a colony of endangered owls. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘Chomp’ 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z He picked up the trombone because it was one of the few instruments available at his middle school. Is It Jazz? Improvisation? Tyshawn Sorey Is Obliterating the Lines 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Not surprisingly, Turtle isn’t prospering in middle school. ‘My Absolute Darling’: A brutal, tremendous novel about a tough teen girl 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Even in middle school, the relationship between homework and academic success is minimal at best. Homework is wrecking our kids: The research is clear, let’s ban elementary homework 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z Green, is “the white boy” in his public middle school, and trying, like most sixth graders, to stay afloat and to stay fresh. More Books We Loved in 2018 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z For me, the story of the championship year and a path to a better life started in middle school. 'McFarland, USA' film revives long-buried memory for runner 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Before Eleven can gain entry into the most important plane of existence of all, the middle school dance, needs to make it happen. Explaining Exactly What Happened at the End of 'Stranger Things 2' 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z She recalls the day she visited a middle school and a young African American girl asked her to sign a copy of one of her books. ‘We need diverse books,’ they said. And now a group’s dream is coming to fruition. 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z The interconnected stories in this National Book Award finalist by Reynolds each correspond to a different block where the students of a middle school go on their after-school adventures. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z The researchers suggest that eating habits may be firmly established by middle school, meaning the children who eat less healthy snacks at school are the same ones who munch on them at home. Motherlode Blog: Vending Machines May Not Cause Student Weight Gain, Study Says 2012-01-20T20:00:12Z His existence there, as one of his middle school’s only Asian students, was often “brutal.” Conan Gray, a Budding Pop Singer Who Feels It All 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z But she says the depression and anxiety she suffered in middle school led her back to the pageant world, where she gained confidence and made friends. Woman with autism competing for Miss Florida title 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Andi has been suspended from her mostly white suburban middle school, where she was bullied and treated unfairly. Young, Gifted and Searching for a Sense of Self 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z I had been “recruited” out of middle school at 14 by coaches and future schoolmates. I love-hate football! 2014-02-02T16:30:00Z The groom’s mother retired as a private Turkish language and social sciences teacher for primary and middle school students. Three Things About Her and Three About Him 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Swift continued to reflect on the hurt of her middle school days in “The Best Day,” a tribute to her close relationship with her mother. If you think Taylor Swift sings only about her exes, then you don’t get Taylor Swift 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Then they suggest going full middle school and ignoring the guy you actually like for at least two weeks. The Bachelorette Watch: Santa Claus Came to Town to Meet Jo Jo 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z I’d learned how to touch-type in middle school, and I was a good typist. A Lifetime of Reading Taught Min Jin Lee How to Write About Her Immigrant World 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z I always talk about this one moment in middle school where I went home after someone's birthday party and I had danced with this guy for like two minutes. "PEN15" stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle: "We still feel like we're in seventh grade" 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z And while it’s likely that most people haven’t done so since middle school, those who carry a Constitution do so with pride — and inevitably, a little bragging. On Constitution Day, putting We the People in your pocket Tom’s Drive-in in Appleton reportedly wrote the sign after experiencing “mistreatment of Tom’s Drive In’s property, guests and staff” from middle school students, according to the sign. Restaurant bans unaccompanied middle school students from dining, sparks mixed reviews 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z She bought me one outfit for Christmas when I was in middle school and I wore it the first day we returned to school after the holiday break. Ainsley Earhardt's Christmas memories include a loving tribute to her grandmother 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z And for a meaningful portion of its user base, the part that hasn’t yet finished middle school, I expect it will simply be, like so much else at the museum, awesome. Wonder and Awe in Natural History’s New Wing. Butterflies, Too. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z However, I was less concerned that I would view my sons’ adolescences and changing bodies through the lens of my unpleasant middle school experiences. Motherlode Blog: If Acne Doesn’t Bother My Son, Why Should It Bother Me? 2014-02-19T19:17:46Z But they are genetically and socially blessed with whatever the middle school idea of “hot” is, and that is a gift that eludes our girls. The Lustful Middle School Girl Rises 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z By middle school, Rigsby was dying to take dance classes, but he knew his mom couldn’t afford them. Peloton star Cody Rigsby says you did not survive a pandemic to do anything but thrive 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z The La Grande District—with its four elementary schools, one middle school and one high school—received a Gold Star rating in 2012 for compliance with the act. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z His mother introduced him to public radio during a middle school summer studies program in Philadelphia. Meet Joshua Johnson, Diane Rehm’s successor — and a bold move for WAMU 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z We played drums in the Thomas Jefferson middle school band. Game over, conservative friend 2012-11-17T00:30:00Z These suggestions are clearly geared toward the younger set, but the premise is the same for children in elementary and middle school and even older kids who are ready to assume responsibility for their lunches. Yes, your kids can and should pack their own lunches 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z For middle school teachers, Kidsnet offers the Science Friday Kids’ Connection curriculum referencing the Science Friday material but in a form more digestible for that age group. 8 terrific learning podcasts for students 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z When I was in middle school, on the first day our teacher "tested" us and put us into three groups: One, Two, Three. Perspective | Ask Amy: Prospective mom worries about long-distance help 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z It was like a middle school: grey tiled, fluorescent lit, labyrinthine. Dawn Landes, Barefoot at Lincoln Center 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z Kelly now edits questions for National Academic Quiz Tournaments, which runs national quiz bowl championships at the middle school, high school and collegiate levels. James Holzhauer Is Dominating ‘Jeopardy!’ But What’s Life Like After the Show? 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z For kids like these – the nerds, dethroned jocks and brainiacs – middle school can still be a carefree space protected by the bubble of pre-adolescent innocence. How "Stranger Things 4" transforms Max into a dream warrior worthy of Wes Craven 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z Diane Lewis Played by: Lucy Lawless Money quote: “I’m a middle school vice-principal. I deal with hormonal psychopaths all the time.” These Are the 25 Best Minor Characters on 'Parks and Recreation' 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Ms. Thomas’s friend said that Ms. Pitt-Matthews was his girlfriend’s sister, and then he surprised Ms. Thomas when he told her she was still in middle school. Who Could Forget That Smile? 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z In middle school, he was very outspoken in class about government issues and religious beliefs, friends said.” When Did Chelsea Manning Become Chelsea Manning? 2013-08-28T13:51:42Z I have many memories of being degraded because of my complexion, the most piercing is from middle school: two girls giggled in my Georgia history class during the showing of a documentary about slavery. Dark-skinned black girls don't get married 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Small: An old man who wishes to be young again goes back to middle school, doesn’t do his homework and calls everyone by silly nicknames. Style Invitational Week 1357: It’s parody time! 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The singer and drummer sang two songs with the middle school band at the Miami Country Day School, according to the Miami Herald. Phil Collins performs at school concert 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Unlike most of us playing catch up, Crystal Ung has been a sunscreen devotee since middle school, when she added drugstore moisturizer with SPF to her daily skin care routine. Sunscreen Gets a Glow Up 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Without giving too much away, that moment, he said, involves a story about a middle school dance. Ira Glass' 'Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host' makes a whimsical mix 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z All the little pinprick injustices of middle school felt like drippy, cavernous, world war wounds. Science saved my life: Saturday’s march for science is personal, too 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Leland was in middle school when he realized that he could barely see at night. What Does it Mean to be Blind? A Writer Chronicles The Loss of His Vision 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z But Ms. Hsing said she hadn’t really played music since she dropped the clarinet after middle school. Watch Ping-Pong Make Its New York Philharmonic Debut 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z This chasm only became more stark in middle school. ‘Dear White Women’: The Public Classroom of Rachel Cargle 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Molly’s toilet resembled one of those baking-soda-and-vinegar volcanoes the dumb kids in middle school made every year for science fairs. Perspective | So that’s what happens when you flush cat litter down the toilet 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z On his commute to and from middle school, he often played a 1978 recording of the Rachmaninoff concerto by Vladimir Horowitz and the Philharmonic. A 19-Year-Old Pianist Electrifies Audiences. But He’s Unimpressed. 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Here is a perfect example: I learned in middle school and high school that Eli Whitney was a freed slave whose cotton gin invention helped end slavery because the machine could out-work field hands. Reparations are overdue: "Confronting the truth" about slavery means paying for it 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z In fact, I’m writing two books about sex right now, for middle school and high school kids! Jane Fonda: “I never was a hippie!” 2012-06-09T22:00:00Z Or: “In public, Mattis, Tillerson and McMaster were portrayed as fellow members of the Axis of Adults. In private, there was pettiness that at times suggested a middle school cafeteria.” A Sober Look at the ‘Cartoonishly Chaotic’ Trump White House 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The bride, 26, is a middle school humanities teacher at Princeton Day School in Princeton, N.J. Angharad Rebholz, Michael Blaakman 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z "This was middle school," Walker writes, "the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up…" But this splicing seems to me a shame. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker – review 2012-06-08T10:00:01Z As she charts in the book, Carlile was held back in middle school, placed in special education classes and finally washed out in the 10th grade. Brandi Carlile Has Always Seen Herself Clearly. Now It’s Our Turn. 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z In the mornings before middle school and high school, my brother and I would get up at the same time. ‘Friends’ Is Older Than Some of Its Biggest Fans 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z And their first day goes as badly as you might expect: This is middle school, after all. Review: ‘PEN15’ Goes Crudely, Sweetly Back to School 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z He is a molecular biologist turned middle school science teacher in the 21st century. Review | Andy Weir’s ‘Project Hail Mary’ is a bestseller. It also has some problems. 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z In the mid-’90s, when other kids were listening to Pearl Jam and Nirvana, Riccardi was in middle school going through what he calls his Jimmy Stewart phase. Louis Armstrong’s museum has gone silent, but ‘Pops’ is still talking 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Growing up in Northern Virginia, he won a middle school contest for a charcoal drawing of astronaut Neil Armstrong. Michael Govan: A museum director who goes beyond the gallery walls 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Medina was a middle school teacher when it happened. Meg Medina weaves family memories into ‘Merci Suárez Changes Gears’ 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z He’d gone from a small elementary school to a much bigger middle school, and he was 12, and it’s a difficult time. “It’s not a women’s problem, it’s a workplace problem”: Anne-Marie Slaughter on the crisis at the heart of the “having it all” problem 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z White Oak and Argyle middle schools in Montgomery County implemented Project Success to make it possible for some sixth-graders to spend half of each schoolday with one teacher and an intact peer group. Teen suicides are on the rise. Here’s what parents can do to slow the trend. 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z “None of them had gone four hours without sending a text message,” Mr. Ferguson writes, “since middle school.” Books of The Times: Application Adventure: A Dad?s College Essay 2011-03-03T16:59:43Z It could be Semple’s sharp takedown of precious parenting in a Seattle middle school that inspires the same kind of devotion readers have for “The Rosie Project.” Dear Match Book: Funny Pages 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Also in that number is Asahiah Hudson, 21, who has been stepping since middle school. This High School Musical Teaches Confidence, Power and Teamwork 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Teachers and staff members from a Washington middle school took photos in preparation for a visit by their students later this week. Pride and Pain on Opening Day at a Museum of African-American History 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Training to be a squire is tough, but nowhere near as tough as starting middle school. A Back-to-School Book List for the Ages 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z On a recent early morning in the central town of Hastings, Sasse stood in a middle school parking lot rubbing Vaseline on his nipples. As the GOP’s anti-Trump, Ben Sasse picked a big fight. What would it mean to win? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z In middle school, Ahmed was suspended multiple times for getting in fights. A year ago, Ahmed Mohamed became ‘Clock Boy.’ Now, he can’t escape that moment. 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z One of my middle school classmates — a beauty with a coltish build — assessed my dumpy, dough-pale body in the locker room, and declared, without malice, that I had what her grandmother called “birthin’ hips.” Curse of my birthing hips 2012-12-20T01:00:00Z “A five-minute line is a wait for us,” said Dave Stergar, a middle school science teacher from Helena who owns a condo at Big Sky and skis 60 days each year. Heads Up : Montana’s Big Sky Resort Gets Bigger 2014-02-27T20:23:06Z I couldn’t imagine the horrors of middle school alone. Not tonight honey — and maybe not ever again 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z During middle school I stopped because a friend told me that if I kept collecting comics, I would never get a girlfriend. Best children’s and young adult books of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Not only is the book well researched, but she also gets personal with her tales of middle school woe — both as a former student and as a parent. Traumatized by Memories of Middle School? You Are Not Alone 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z In middle school, he moved on to Nintendo games, often staying up late and racking up huge phone bills trying to call game developers in Tokyo about their latest releases. Brian Stelter has been training for this moment his entire life 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z By the time I was a middle school student, I was scouring my father’s issues of Time and Newsweek each week for articles about Hillary Clinton. A rural man grieves Hillary Clinton’s defeat: Her strength gave hope to outsiders like me 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z At my school, I recently asked several middle school boys to fill a “man box” with words that reflect cultural ideas about masculinity. 9 ways to help boys form the close friendships they crave 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z First up, a middle school in Compton, Calif. 8 p.m. Friday TV Picks: 'School Pride' reality series on NBC 2010-10-14T21:23:00Z The Pérez museum program includes a group of police officers, museum staff members and middle school students who are part of Breakthrough Miami, a nonprofit organization that provides academic enrichment for low-income students. Museums Tell Teenagers: We’re Here for You 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Still in middle school, he was selected for a special drawing class at what is now the Otis College of Art and Design. For Kerry James Marshall, the mission is clear: Bring portraits of black life into very white art museums 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z A lot happens on the walk home from a city middle school. The best children’s books of 2019 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Here, though, the fantastic world is also contemporary Brooklyn, where the newest Spider-Man happens to be Miles Morales, a middle school student of black and Latino heritage. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z She had taken me with her hoping that as a punishment my parents would not send me to middle school? Elena Ferrante’s New Book: Art Wins 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Though it might have been my middle school chorus teacher asking if I’d like to stage manage some production the school was putting on, which would relinquish me from the constraints of normal adolescent angst. Your First Theater Crush 2013-08-21T16:24:20Z The groom’s mother is a third-grade teaching assistant at the McGillis School, a private elementary and middle school in Salt Lake City. Tess Reed, Samuel Dippo 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z While the main narrative focuses on the experience of auditioning for her middle school’s cheerleading squad, the plot functions as a foundation that allows Christina to explore the big questions that come with growing up. Game Face 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The bride’s mother, who is also retired, was a school psychologist for the middle school and high school in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. Marnie Kaplan, Michael Smallberg 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Almost all of my middle school crushes had crushes on her. My sister’s perfect life 2012-07-04T00:00:00Z Then I saw Life of Brian in middle school, when a substitute teacher put it on to keep us quiet on a rainy day. John Oliver on Monty Python: 'inspirational idiots who changed comedy' 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z It felt like the right time to get a smartphone for my oldest child when she went to middle school. The device dilemma: What rules should parents have for smartphones and tablets? 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z “It brought us back to that time in middle school, in D.C., where we were talking on the phone until three or four in the morning,” Mr. Childs said. For Middle School Sweethearts, a Second Chance 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z When I was a middle school student in the 1980s, a girl in my class presented a book report on Judy Blume’s “Blubber.” Body Language in Middle Grade Lit 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z It made me think about how later, as a teenager, my mother was distraught to find that year after year I took a black Sharpie to my picture in the middle school yearbooks. “Of course she’s pretty!”: What happens when kids only see white people in books 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Your performance in middle school is simply not relevant to college. How to Secure Teacher Recommendations for Your College Applications 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z I just wish I’d known back in middle school what I know now, but we both know that’s not how life works. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z Yesterday’s education column incorrectly stated that the new middle school would “offer curses in French, Spanish and Italian.” Style Invitational Week 1470: Your add here 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z “We had everyone from middle school students to grandmothers and grandfathers stating their reasons why this should remain on the shelves. The board ended up voting in our favor and the book is still there.” Activism grows nationwide in response to school book bans 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z I moved in with my grandparents after a long-term relationship with my middle school sweetheart ended abruptly in March. Together. 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z I was too young to watch “The Wire” in middle school. ‘They Conflated “The Wire” With Reality’ 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Mom settled in Salinas, Calif., teaching middle school art and English. The Lockdown Gave My Parents a Honeymoon Do-Over 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z She’d be forever lost in the shadows of youth, a plump ghost who once ate with me in the small, cramped cafeteria of our middle school. Her Facebook disaster show 2012-11-20T01:00:00Z As an English instructor in various capacities, I’m exposed to many of the city’s youth, from middle school through college. Motherlode Blog: No City for Little Boys 2013-04-21T13:24:15Z Reading comments posted there can be like overhearing the conversation at the “mean girls” table in the middle school cafeteria, and realizing that they’re talking about you! Perspective | Ask Amy: Yard-yacht sails into the neighborhood 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Fey underlined the slight by saying sarcastically, “Congratulations, Lena, I’m glad we got you through middle school.” The TV Watch: A Night for Saluting Women at the Golden Globes 2013-01-14T05:06:00Z I was in middle school around the time all of this happened; I wasn’t paying attention. Renée Fleming Adds a New Role to Her Repertoire: Pat Nixon 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z But we found commonality in our favorite emo-punk music from middle school. Date Lab: ‘Just a smooch, not a make-out, not a hug,’ she says 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z When Rachel ran for student council during middle school and high school, she didn’t just hang a few posters throughout the school. ‘Dork Diaries’: The book empire built one awkward moment at a time 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z I'm also concerned about how he will do socially in middle school when he transitions. Perspective | A son with ADHD and autism spectrum disorder is heading to middle school 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z By third grade, Baxter had his own cow, and by middle school he had his first horse. Baxter Black, Who Elevated Cowboy Poetry to Folk Art, Dies at 77 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z I thought the way it was in middle school would be the way it was going to be forever. The Visionaries: How Quentin Tarantino Concocted a Genre of His Own 2012-12-19T13:00:00Z For them, as elementary and middle school students in New York City, Thanksgiving pageants are an unfamiliar relic of history. In ‘Thanksgiving Play,’ the Pageantry of ‘Well-Meaning’ White People 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z She agreed that middle school is the ideal time to bring a child to the new museum. Tips for taking children to the new Legacy Museum and lynching memorial in Alabama 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Not long after I got my son up to speed, I taught middle school health and wellness for the first time. How to talk to kids about sex 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z She and her friends invited me to a party, and once I got there, it felt like middle school all over again. All my wasted New Year’s 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z There are other middle school memories that “Pen15” does not try to correct. The Catharsis of ‘Pen15’ 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z I actually went to middle school with him. Shelby Shellz Suzie Q Felton, the ‘Lady Professor’ of Flexing 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z I was absolutely sure I was the only 9-year-old in therapy, never mind that it was the middle school principal who firmly suggested a therapist by name to my parents. My year of anxiety: How my worries took control, and how I’m taking it back 2014-01-26T21:00:00Z His formal accommodations, which included frequent breaks and preferential seating, helped him meet the increased demands of middle school. 9 ways parents can empower a child who has learning issues 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Thomas remembers being in middle school and the police hauling him and his friends into alleys to rough them up for sport. The duty and burden of the black police officer 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z As kids form friendships in middle school, encourage them to connect with kids from different backgrounds. Tips on How to Talk to Your Kids About Ferguson 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Not Invited: This is going to sound like passing notes in middle school, but your mom is the one to ask your brother whether you’re invited. Carolyn Hax: Super-casual wedding invitation merits a super-casual reaction 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Phil in which the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles offers music training for elementary and middle school students. NEA grants go to musical works about Marilyn Monroe, My Lai massacre 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z After going to an academic camp in middle school, he began giving himself an education. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z CJ Knight was in middle school when his family moved to Crested Butte, a town in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Who Gets to Ski? 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z During the summer between fifth and sixth grade, I changed schools, going from the warm bubble of my tiny private elementary school to the gaping reality of a large public middle school. My Two-House, Duffel-Bag Life 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z And then on top of that, for people who end up engaging with these celebrities in middle school and high school and college, where you are separating from your parents as an individual. Bowie, Rickman and the fan’s disoriented grief: Why their deaths feel like “a tear in the fabric of your life” 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Before that, he was in middle school with a girl I babysat. Why is Joe Burrow so great? Because he’s from Appalachia 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z She started writing fantasy when she was in middle school. A friendship is at the heart of ‘Clues to the Universe’ 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Now, at 30, the pain and confusion of middle school seem lifetimes away. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z They also explain concepts like cognitive dissonance and negative reinforcement with that demonstrative gusto often found in beloved middle school teachers. Review: Thinking Outside (and Inside) B.F. Skinner’s Box 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z They had whipped two people to death in front of her middle school. Marjan Neshat on Her ‘Kind of Miraculous Season’ Onstage 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z A teacher’s unique “baggage” idea is making the rounds on social media for its powerful message about middle school students’ mental health. Teacher’s back to school 'Baggage Activity' praised for powerful message: 'It brings me to tears' 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Before middle school, I found Betty Smith’s “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” the quintessential New York immigrant novel, which underscored the power of education. A Lifetime of Reading Taught Min Jin Lee How to Write About Her Immigrant World 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z But oh man, in so many ways I’m still that same middle school girl wondering if her crush likes her back.” Teenage Angst, Revisited in Isolation 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z I started watching the gawky redheaded host in middle school and I’ve never stopped. Get Ready New York: Conan O?Brien is Back 2011-11-01T14:15:11Z It was a staple well into middle school and high school, all the way up until I discovered pho spots, which are also inexpensive and typically delicious. How the "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" inspired me to make my childhood struggle meal gourmet 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Open to all teenagers with a middle school or high school ID, these twice-yearly celebrations feature partnerships with community organizations to offer young people a range of experiences. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The ceremony took place in a local Mexican coffee house, just a short walk from the middle school. Why My Daughter Got (Temporarily) Married at 13 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z At an event in Jackson, a group of girls in middle school told her that they had never met an author who looked like them. New Crop of Young Adult Novels Explores Race and Police Brutality 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Instead, there’s abuse so extreme that one woman’s report of a female gym coach molesting her in middle school leads to several other women coming forward with their strikingly similar accounts of abuse in school. TV highlights: Rick leads a risky mission on ‘The Walking Dead’ The young stand-ups at this show will make light of love — and many other things — as they draw on the sometimes heartbreaking experiences of middle school and high school. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z “I ran track when I was a kid, my whole middle school life I ran track and my dad was the coach,” Jenner said. Kendall Jenner Was Coached in Track by Olympic Gold Medalist Bruce Jenner 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z “You prettier. You taller. You thinner, more popular. In middle school, you had friends and I had you.” A Florida of Sun, Sky, Sea and Mind 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z A. No. The fact that I would quit in middle school just shows how little of the world that I knew. The Visionaries: How Quentin Tarantino Concocted a Genre of His Own 2012-12-19T13:00:00Z The root of their malaise, they agree, is no mystery: it’s middle school. Critic’s Notebook: New York Asian Film Festival at Walter Reade Theater 2012-06-28T22:19:57Z The show, closing this weekend, involves a contest with a rival camp and plenty of middle school antics. Spare Times for Children for April 10-16 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z In middle school, he branched out, checking out everything from Usher and Sisqó to AC/DC and Kid Rock. Kane Brown Didn’t Fit the Country Music Mold. So He Made His Own. 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z We have applicants who started reading Date Lab in middle school and readers who, fabulously, act out each week’s column with their roommates. What I learned as Date Lab’s longest-serving matchmaker 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z And still in middle school she came to me and said, ‘I want Hannah Montana’s nose,’ and things like, kids were bothering them because they thought they were ugly. First, she was a survivor: #MeToo’s Burke tells her story 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Here's my dilemma: I've been friends with someone since middle school. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: You’d be cutting off your nose (a.k.a. an old friend) to save face 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z I am not one of those people who merely took a few ballet classes in middle school. 'She’s good, but she’s big': my years as a 'fat' ballerina 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Yhap recalled watching President Obama’s inauguration in her middle school auditorium. Black women are leaning into joy throughout Jackson’s hearings: ‘We need to celebrate this’ 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z We fell en masse, the girls in my Catholic middle school, and as much as we could look like Madonna — lacy bows, mousse-mussed hair, fingerless gloves — while still pulling off the uniform kilt, we did. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z In fact, the last time she had been climbing — in middle school — she’d frozen in terror halfway up the wall. First she faced her fear of heights, then she took on something even scarier: Remarriage 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Her characters respond in the casual everyday speech of middle school students. Linda Sue Park’s New Book of Poems Is Just a Drill 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z “The theory is that fire will double in size every 30 seconds,” said Neubert, who is also a middle school teacher and taught five of the six seniors when they were younger. These high school seniors raced away from graduation to fight a fire 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z The author and illustrator Kevin Henkes has written picture books for children still toddling in diapers, and novels for those facing middle school. Spare Times for Children for March 14-20 2014-03-13T23:26:13Z By the time I got to middle school, I was a full-blown sugar addict, using every dime of my weekly “lunch money” to buy candy at the Cala Foods in the Castro. Aya Cash: The First Time I Ate a Vegetable (I Was 22) 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z In middle school, when a student’s mother died of breast cancer, the class mailed in pink Yoplait lids for a national fund-raiser. Mourning Through Horror Movies 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Her father is an artist, and her mother ran a publishing company and taught art at a middle school. For Mire Lee, Rising Art Star, It All Comes Down to Guts 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Whitaker shares tidbits about the heroics of his French grandfather during World War Two, his father's alcoholism and womanizing, and his year spent at a middle school in France. Newsman Mark Whitaker details complex family in memoir 2011-10-18T17:47:33Z “If you want me to be friends with someone just because they are brown, that’s racist,” she said, rolling her middle school eyes. Motherlode: Talking About Race (Etc.) 2011-03-10T18:27:57Z It wasn’t until after a middle school talent show that a counselor suggested she audition for a performing arts high school. Joaquina Kalukango Isn’t Afraid to Speak Up Anymore 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Encouraged by a middle school music teacher, he was playing in New York nightclubs by the time he was 12; he was sometimes sneaked in beneath his teacher’s wife’s fur coat, his feet atop hers. Kashif, R&B Singer, Writer and Producer, Dies at 59 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z A mom is speaking out after her daughter’s middle school offered to give girls shapewear to help them with their body image. Mississippi middle school offers shapewear to help girls with body image: ‘highly inappropriate’ 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Looking back, Ruberry said, there might have been a time in middle school when he displayed a hint of things to come. His movie scripts were rejected for 40 years. His Christmas film just aired on Lifetime. 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z When I was in late middle school or early high school, I went through a decent vegetarian phase. A 4-ingredient marinade for sheet pan tofu that gets dinner on the table in no time 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z When I hit middle school I worried about my weight more than I worried about boys. Resolved: A no-diet new year starts now 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z Angleberger says it helps that he still vividly recalls his difficult middle school years. The Force is with 'Origami Yoda's' creator 2011-12-24T05:55:58Z Listen, when she was in middle school and high school when the computer thing started happening, I tried so hard to limit the amount of time she could be on that computer. SXSW: Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy on 'Breakfast Club' 30th anniversary 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The “Mama’s Boyz” cartoonist draws on his own life for this story of a student suddenly adapting to a predominantly white middle school, with the serious social challenges intercut with winning humor. The best graphic novels, memoirs and story collections of 2019 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z In middle school, I carved Brand New lyrics into the backs of my binders until the plastic tore. Perspective | Warped Tour is over for good. Will the culture it created finally reckon with its demons? 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Prosecutors allege that Kelly met the girls in the mid- to late 1990s, when they were middle school- and high school-aged. What to know about R. Kelly’s federal child porn and obstruction of justice trial in Chicago 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Before workshops, before SATs and even, in some cases, before middle school, these writers were just kids. Going back to school with writers and the first things they wrote in 'Our Story Begins' 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z A Nysmith team placed first in the middle school division of the CyberPatriot Competition’s national finals, held at National Harbor on Saturday. Nysmith middle schoolers win national CyberPatriot contest 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Between the onslaught of hormones and rapid physical growth, middle school is an emotional and physical gantlet. Motherlode Blog: Against Accelerating the Gifted Child 2012-10-14T12:00:25Z Joel grew up learning the drums alongside his twin brother, Josh, at the knee of their godfather, switching to the vibraphone only reluctantly after Josh snagged the drum chair in their middle school band. How the Vibraphonist Joel Ross Keeps Finding Fresh Rhythms 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z And yet, as I imagine “Trevor” being performed for young audiences, perhaps in middle schools that even today are scenes of vicious homophobia, I have to think the ends justify the means. Review: ‘Trevor’ Is a Musical That Dare Not Speak Its Theme 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z PixelPancho, an Italian who uses only his professional name, said his painting on the front of a middle school was inspired by Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” portrait of a Midwest farm couple with a pitchfork. In Miami, the Murals Are the Message 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Shaka Greene, who coaches the Bravo Zulu Chess team and teaches middle school math in Washington, paces the floor, tallying the match results of his 22 Team Zulu players in a notebook. At a hip-hop chess tournament, fun wins with a checkmate 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Every Sunday night in middle school, I'd call one of my best friends to make plans for the following weekend. Doctors lost an organ inside of me (and I feel fine) 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z When I was growing up, in middle school and high school, I used gay slurs. Salon’s Sexiest Man of 2012: The interview 2012-11-14T13:22:00Z “I took one or two dance classes just to try it, and a course in middle school, which I loved,” the younger Mr. Baryshnikov said. Up Close : The Marginalized, Front and Center 2013-07-31T20:00:36Z Ms. Li said, “You miss a lot of idioms, cultural things,” if you don’t go to middle school or high school in the language. Yiyun Li’s ‘Kinder Than Solitude’ Echoes a Beijing Childhood 2014-02-24T22:58:48Z Cutchin began competing in Special Olympics when he was in middle school. D.C. track star heads to Los Angeles for Special Olympics World Games 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z She recalls one child who became the “Dear Abby” of her middle school. Seven ways to teach tweens to give to others without sacrificing themselves 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Her mother is a middle school science teacher at North Shore Hebrew Academy in Great Neck, N.Y. Danielle Seiden, Daniel Seidman 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z He decided to pursue the revised edition after middle school and high school teachers lamented they could no longer assign the books. New edition removes Mark Twain's 'offensive' words 2011-01-05T12:18:09Z Young people are coming out at earlier and earlier ages, having shifted from the 20s and college years into high school and even middle school. Cultural Studies: Helping a Gay Child to Come Out 2012-10-05T20:07:11Z “She is in middle school. Totally inappropriate. Welcome to Louisiana.” Louisiana middle school blasted for 'gross' and 'inappropriate' spirit week themes 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Best pals share the trials and tribulations of middle school in the new sitcom "100 Things to Do Before High School." TV This Week Nov. 9 - 15: 'Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B' 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The top three middle schools received trophies and $1,000 for their science departments. D.C.-area students are finalists at National Science Bowl 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z The state runs a nationwide intranet for the exchange of sanctioned material, while USB drives and CD-Rs are becoming more and more common among college and middle school students. Pyongyang goes pop: Jarvis Cocker unites the divided 2011-03-29T14:52:43Z Its puzzles and activities are geared to middle school students, though those in high school might find some worthy material, too. Spare Times for Children Listings for Sept. 16-22 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Rachel and her daughters, Nikki and Erin, joined us to draw and talk about middle school highs and lows. Back-to-School Wisdom From the Creators of Your Favorite Children’s Books 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z The wonderful park interpreter working that day, Elizabeth Crowley, was a middle school teacher in a previous life. A Lighthouse to Call Your Own 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Tell stories from your own middle school years. Perspective | Teen is often late to school, but punishing her isn’t the answer 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Silver Streak was my first date in middle school, and he and Richard managed to pull me from the terror of that event through laughter. Gene Wilder Dies at 83; Star of ‘Willy Wonka’ and ‘Young Frankenstein’ 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z My son Ben is in middle school, and homework is no longer an abstract concept. Motherlode Blog: Students need homework, but not all homework is what students need. 2012-02-03T17:39:31Z My dog’s favorite place on Earth is a fully fenced, full-size baseball diamond beside a middle school. Gene Weingarten: The worst thing my dog could do on a baseball field 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z She has noticed a big uptick in anxiety and attention disorders among older elementary and younger middle school students. Perspective | How a focus on nature is changing therapy for kids 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z My older son was in middle school, while my younger son was 6. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A single mom’s night out comes with a guilt trip from young child 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Over 6 feet tall by middle school, he was a basketball star but also a stutterer who was teased often and fought back in return. Walter Dean Myers, children’s author, dies at age 76 And here’s the answer: The Canadian high school teacher and the middle school teacher from South Carolina who met as fellow contestants on “Jeopardy” and went on to be married. Alex, We’ll Take ‘To Have and to Hold’ for $1,000 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Then, she said, sometime in middle school, “I started to be too cool for it.” Coin Shortage? It May Be Time to Use Your State Quarters 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z But I’m pretty sure that without the tricyclic antidepressants of the 1980s I wouldn’t have made it through middle school without inpatient hospitalization. Should We Still Listen to Prozac? Peter D. Kramer Jumps Back Into the Antidepressant Debate 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z “Every few years, a middle school student either becomes pregnant or is associated with a pregnancy,” he said. Oregon school district to offer condoms to students starting in 6th grade 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Michael Casarella, 28, an owner of the men’s accessory brand Barking Irons, says he hasn’t remembered a phone number since middle school. Noticed: Dumbed-Down Dialing 2010-08-27T16:29:00Z The majority of foreign language programs in the United States don’t start until middle school or even high school. Parents want elementary pupils to learn foreign languages -- but where? “When I was in middle school, I was very severely bullied,” Ms. Lee says. Jennifer Lee, Queen of the ‘Frozen’ Franchise 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Dear Carolyn: I have a daughter who is having an incredibly hard time adjusting to middle school. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Mom appears to have a handle on it, but she’s still at a loss 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The same goes for items no longer needed, like a huge rotating globe that now hangs at a nearby middle school. Museums Special Section: After the Exhibition, Finding New Uses for Displays 2014-03-19T20:39:41Z And certainly middle school has long been awful. Mommy has anger issues! My daughters are pre-adolescent, I’m pre-menopausal 2014-05-10T23:00:00Z The middle school teachers start to dress completely in black. Siblings’ love of music and science help them deal with family problems 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z When I was in middle school, a friend of mine began measuring her waist and arms and legs with a measuring tape. Sports saved me: I was skipping lunch in middle school — until I realized I wouldn’t be allowed to play if I had a “problem” 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z I went to a middle school and asked the kids what they think of when they hear of Iran. Firoozeh Dumas sees the humor amid middle-school stress 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z A tech-savvy high school junior may shine explaining the workings of a robot to middle school students after school, and a good musician might give basic piano lessons. How parents can help introverts thrive (without trying to turn them into extroverts) 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Things got worse — as they often do — in middle school. The Many Hats of Chris Colfer 2012-12-21T21:10:46Z However, Friedman notes that a 2014 survey of 10,000 middle school and high school students showed that 80 percent of them said their personal happiness was more important than caring about other people. Being kind to others has rewards for you 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z In the new anime adventure “Lu Over the Wall,” Kai is a melancholy middle school student in Hinashi Town, a small fishing village that was once home to humans and merfolk. Review: A Mermaid Saves the Day in ‘Lu Over the Wall’ 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Just because I went to a Black Catholic elementary and middle school, which drilled Black history into us, I thought I knew more about our history than most. Don Lemon Organizes His Books by Color 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z “My best friend was a girl growing up all through middle school and high school,” Marcello adds. How ‘The Kissing Booth’ went from a teenager’s passion project to a Netflix sensation 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Her father died; then her mother became gravely ill, compelling Kalena to take in her two younger brothers, then just in middle school. What I learned about love during my years of reporting on weddings 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z “The board felt that the curriculum should reach the students of the middle school.” Oregon school district to offer condoms to students starting in 6th grade 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z “We worked with a middle school teacher who started a petition, and that gained a lot of traction, with more than a 1,000 signatures,” McNary says. Activism grows nationwide in response to school book bans 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z At 13, an age when most girls are just trying to survive middle school, Ms. Santos became a Rookie contributor, submitting visual diaries every week. Rookie Cataloged a Generation of Girlhood 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z When first confronted with the idea that the team’s name was racist, around the time he was in middle school, Mr. Pearson, who is Black, said: “My brain couldn’t handle it.” What Happens Now to All That Washington N.F.L. Merchandise? 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z I read a really great review that said this is a show that is about the trauma of middle school, it's not an instrument of traumatizing kids. "PEN15" stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle: "We still feel like we're in seventh grade" 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z "This movie is about the cost of oppression," Stewart said in an introduction before the screening in a middle school gym in the Rocky Mountain town. Telluride: Jon Stewart's 'Rosewater' leavens a somber story with humor 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z And he devoured so many episodes of “The Simpsons” that by middle school he announced to his parents that he wanted to write for the show. Nathaniel and Simon: The Brothers Rich 2013-01-04T21:32:05Z Mr. Mann, a gangly 23-year-old from Dallas, started off in sixth grade, when his middle school production of “Sleeping Beauty” required a jester. Breakthrough Performances of the Summer Movies Season 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z All day yesterday I saw image upon image of Day-Glo lilac-colored middle school fantasy drinks parade by on my social media feeds. Staring into the glittery heart of Starbucks darkness 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Acknowledge that there was no choice but for her be on her technology, and no matter how your daughter finished middle school, find the silver lining. Perspective | How do I reinstate screen limits for my teen? 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z I was in middle school the first time I went, escorted by a wealthy friend and her mother. Bye-Bye, Bendel’s 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z In ensemble categories, Eckstein units won first and second place for best middle school combo and took first for best middle school band. Seattle-area school jazz bands win top awards 2013-04-30T19:08:55Z I sang when I was in middle school, and I sang when I was at Sidwell. In conflict zone, raising young Palestinian and Jewish voices 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Now in middle school this lack of close friends is catching up with her. Perspective | A seventh-grader is active but lacks close friends. Is there anything to worry about? 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z I’ve always been struck by the gender inequality in the middle school classrooms I visit. Motherlode Blog: No City for Little Boys 2013-04-21T13:24:15Z He regularly visits middle schools to talk with students and teachers. James Patterson is on a mission to #saveourbooks 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z In generations past, it was assumed that if you missed the orthodontia train in middle school, you would just have to deal with it, for like, ever. "You want a rich lady mouth": Could fixing my teeth fix my life? 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Why is “Eighth Grade,” a realistic movie about a 13-year-old girl’s very awkward last week of middle school rated R? Bo Burnham refused to edit R-rated “Eighth Grade” into PG-13 and advises teenagers to “snea... 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z And on May 3, middle school students across the country will participate in a simultaneous performance of the song, with a little help from the NABEF's instructional videos of the choreography. Why Beyonce's viral fitness campaign is doomed 2011-04-28T15:29:00Z The data shows it’s working incredibly well, says Dodd, who founded the program after many years as a middle school principal. Teen suicides are on the rise. Here’s what parents can do to slow the trend. 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z We have a choice of public middle schools where he can take advanced science. Why is Joe Burrow so great? Because he’s from Appalachia 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Zhang Qin, their daughter, is a high school student when the film starts, and her younger brother is in middle school. | 'Last Train Home': A Family Caught in the Wheels of China?s Industrial Locomotive 2010-09-02T20:33:00Z The owner of the space is now developing it, with plans to construct an apartment complex and a middle school. St. Ann?s Warehouse Scrambles to Find a New Home 2011-06-03T17:40:06Z By the time children reach middle school, when they often gain more independence, they start to develop a better sense of evaluating risk. Motherlode Blog: When a Stranger Doesn’t Mean Danger 2013-05-24T19:34:38Z One sad autumn a couple of years ago, I wrote two pieces, similar in tone, about being absolutely friendless in middle school and high school. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z I did all the school plays in middle school and high school. Her first job out of college: the lead in 'West Side Story' at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z When Gevinson started her blog at 11 she saw it as an outlet that helped her get through middle school. Teen fashion blogger branches out with book 2012-12-13T17:19:12Z Back in middle school, I recall garnering the ire of my classmates when I would bring tuna on whole wheat. Every time I eat tuna, I’m honoring my father 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Like this passage in which Díaz writes about how she and her middle school friends contemplate death: October must-reads: "Call Me by Your Name" sequel to memoirs galore 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z But now in middle school, she is withdrawing socially. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She ain’t heavy, she’s your daughter 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The blogs are easy to read, starting at the middle school level. For the best stargazing, head to a patch of dark sky 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z I wish we’d pushed for extensive testing back in middle school. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Have an underperforming son tested, but keep expectations realistic 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Dear Carolyn: One of my daughter's new middle school friends is from a family that is clearly struggling. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Sleepovers at a dysfunctional house? It’s a no-brainer, not a no-hearter. 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Do you remember that short story The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, that we were all forced to read in middle school? The Lottery: why there are no winners in Lifetime’s dystopian drama 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Her first novel, “Nikki on the Line,” is just what her daughter, Helen, was looking for in elementary and middle school. Fed up with the lack of sports books for girls, this author and mom wrote one 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z He is currently enrolled in theater at his middle school for his third year. Toronto Festival 2014: Chris Evans Answers Your Questions 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Disgusted: This letter prompted scores of readers to send in their own middle school memories. Perspective | Ask Amy: Prospective mom worries about long-distance help 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z I volunteered re-shelving books once a week in my son's middle school library. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A reader’s rap against school fundraisers 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z It flattened homes within a five-block radius and destroyed a nursing home, an apartment complex, and a nearby middle school. Could regulators have prevented the Texas fertilizer plant explosion? 2013-04-28T14:00:00Z The window for missing games inches closed in middle school and slams shut in high school, so plan or unplan accordingly. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Angry comments on news sites and Facebook? That’s my husband. 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z He was a teacher at the same middle school he had attended, which I found adorable. For a 30-Year-Old Virgin, It’s Now or Never 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Reading this for the first time, in middle school, I pictured myself sorted between “Thomas, Dean” and “Turpin, Lisa.” Finally, a New Harry Potter Story Worth Reading 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z They tell me constantly how much they don’t like each other, since I was in at least middle school. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Her dad treats her like his marriage counselor, and she has had enough 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z Observing suits Chester just fine, as he prefers a life on the margins of middle school, shaped by his many rituals. Young Sleuths Hot on the Trail of Their Own Identities 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z I have taught middle school students about the Green Book with this interactive learning activity: https://tinyurl.com/yav3h2bt Can't wait to see this exhibit! How an Artist Learned About Freedom From ‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Oh, Blake, the middle school humor gets me every time. 'The Voice' recap: 10 highlights from the Season 8 finale 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Weirdness abounds: a middle school boy vomits every time he opens his mouth; a young woman gives birth to a new baby every night; a “how-to” story instructs “Fifty Ways to Eat Your Lover.” Review | Amelia Gray captures the mind of Isadora Duncan, the mother of modern dance 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Her mother is a teacher at Blue School, an independent preschool, elementary and middle school in Manhattan. Madeline Cronin, Matthew Aaronson 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z By middle school, kids start to cluster into groups. How to Help Your Kid Make Friends This Summer 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z As obsessed as Swift would eventually become with her powerful “squad,” a BFF group made up of models, singers and actresses, she frequently talked about how she was bullied and ostracized in middle school. If you think Taylor Swift sings only about her exes, then you don’t get Taylor Swift 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z But a slew of other reforms meant to improve student performance in elementary and middle schools, boost math and reading comprehension, and shrink the white-black achievement gap resulted in little improvement, the report says. Report: CPS reforms failed many students 2011-09-30T11:00:00Z For older children, how do you make it clear that crude words in the middle school hallway from a fellow eighth grader are an entirely different matter than the same comment from an English teacher? Motherlode Blog: Can You Trust Your Child's Coach? 2011-11-09T11:09:09Z My education in middle school was not significantly different from the education pioneer schoolchildren received 100 years earlier in one-room log cabin schools, both in its moral underpinning and in its content. You changed me: how my English teacher taught impeccable writing 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Mei has the relatable swagger of the middle school cool nerd — she’s creative and confident, and also has a perfect report card. ‘Turning Red’ Review: Beware the Red-Furred Monster 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Later, one would play Lady Macbeth in middle school, and the other one was a stage manager and director in high school. The Half-Empty Nest 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Vroman said that when she took a group of middle school students to Europe, they were grumpy and complained incessantly. Perspective | Seven ways parents and educators can improve kids’ middle school experience 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z His father retired as a middle school science teacher within the Chartiers Valley School District. Vina Tran, Michael Stanish 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Ray Canterbury, a Republican delegate, is appealing to the West Virginia board of education to include science fiction novels on the middle school and high school curriculums. Bill for compulsory science fiction in West Virginia schools 2013-04-19T15:16:24Z I get it: he wants to be cool, and in middle school the gravitational pull to move in lockstep with one’s friends is incredibly powerful. Motherlode Blog: Teaching Etiquette in the Age of the Evite 2011-11-30T16:07:18Z She was teaching math during first period at Bellport middle school on Long Island, New York, when she received a text from a friend in another building. A topless photo ruined this teacher's career. Now she's speaking out 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Only weeks into January, Piccioli taught a middle school history class in the Springfield school district, according to the district; Preckwinkle taught a high school special education class. 2 teach for a day to qualify for hefty pensions 2011-10-22T05:16:00Z Even though it’s been more than three decades since I rode that bus to middle school, I’ve been thinking a lot about it lately. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z Just as they drew on memories from middle school, their bodies have remembered what being 13 was like, too. The Catharsis of ‘Pen15’ 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z “But in the eighth grade, when we went on our class trip to Washington, D.C., that’s when we struck up a kind of middle school love story.” For Middle School Sweethearts, a Second Chance 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z When Prass was in middle school, she was really into fantasy worlds. Natalie Prass Escapes Nashville 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z Ms. Rivera was living in Berkeley, Calif., and teaching middle school Spanish at Park Day School in Oakland, where her supervisor was Lizette Dolan, Mr. Alonzo’s cousin at whose birthday party the two met. On Paper, They Were All Wrong. But in Time, Just Right. 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Her mother is a middle school mathematics teacher at Epiphany Catholic School. Marianne Eagan, Kevin Burrows 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z They typically emerge during middle school: one is positive and fun to be around, and the other is influential but also manipulative, says Brett Laursen, a professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University. 6 Things You Should Know About Young Girls in School 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z He played soccer and basketball, but didn’t fall in love athletically until trying lacrosse in middle school. Can This Man Make Lacrosse Sexy? 2010-10-13T21:24:00Z In middle school, Simon Tam was jumped by four older kids on the playground. Review | He named his band the Slants to reclaim a slur. Not everyone approved. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z My parents had recently combusted in a hellish fireball of divorce; my sister escaped to college, and my brother was left to survive middle school with a shitload of shrapnel. We’re not meant to do this alone: American individualism is destroying our families 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z I had read just the main book "Flowers in the Attic," the famous book, when I was probably in middle school, and that was it. "Flowers in the Attic" writer on "The Origin" ending, whose story needs telling and that swan bed 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Jam attended middle school with Prince, and a post-high school reunion led them to start playing with Morris Day and the Time, with Prince doing most of the writing and producing. Jam & Lewis are back for the first time with ‘Volume One’ 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z When her parents enroll her in middle school instead, she encounters a buried mystery. Scary Novels From Nick Lake, Kenneth Oppel and Roseanne A. Brown 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z She wrote “Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero,” published this week, about a fictional boy in Texas who is navigating middle school. Saadia Faruqi’s new novel explores racism against Muslims after 9/11 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z She’s been knitting since middle school in Agoura Hills, Calif., and keeps a book of yarn samples in her studio from that time. Yarn Bombing Hits the High Street 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z “I hadn’t really got to play works by a lot of composers of color before,” Plains said, who learned to play the bassoon in middle school. These Young Musicians Made an Album. Now It’s Nominated for a Grammy. 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z “Dreilinger chronicles home ec’s decline beginning in the 1960s and its frantic efforts to reinvent itself,” Virginia Postrel writes in her review, fondly recalling her own time in a middle school home ec classroom. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Then, in middle school, Ms. Mock met a transgender girl named Wendi, and at 12 or 13, she began applying lip gloss, wearing makeup and tweezing her eyebrows. The Growing Transgender Presence in Pop Culture 2014-03-12T22:38:10Z She spent several years teaching and developing curricula for public middle schools in Manhattan, then returned to Hawaii and received a Ph.D in international comparative education. President's sister puts their mom in picture book 2011-04-12T11:13:09Z Victor: Yeah, I've been doing online video projects since middle school. Meet "Internet Shaquille," the YouTube chef teaching a new generation to cook 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Those 400 displaced middle schoolers would be crowded into another local middle school. Sheltering in place: For students in Donald Trump-loving coal country, “school choice” isn’t a solution 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z She describes it as a “hideous, hilarious drama of middle school friendships called ‘Bad Best Friend.’ ” Middle school texting story inspired by century-old letter writer 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z In Los Angeles, a teen’s middle school project commemorating her city’s fallen through a patchwork quilt now includes the names of hundreds more from around the world. COVID-19 memorial creators reflect as world nears 5M deaths 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z He was enrolled in graduate school, taught art at a middle school, and did freelance work on the side. My husband wouldn’t read my memoir: “It’s just too painful” 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z D Smoke: I went to a middle school that was predominantly Latino and all my friends spoke it. Q&A: Rapper D Smoke takes patient walk to Grammy recognition 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z The highlight this time was racing each other around a middle school track adjacent to the park. 2010-01-08T04:51:00Z The festival will include a second-line contest of high school and middle school brass bands in a "Class Got Brass" competition. Congo Square rhythms fest kicks off March 23 2013-03-16T15:14:11Z A native New Yorker who made her first solo in middle school, Ms. May grew up studying dance composition and improvisation; her early influences included the experimental choreographers Neil Greenberg and Susan Rethorst. A Dance of the Unspeakable 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Students are disappearing from HG Wells middle school and only Mars Patel and his friends seem to notice. The 50 best podcasts of 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The brand’s website displays a selection of the designers’ family photos and cultural references: cowboy hats stacked up in a Reno gas station, American middle school billboards, the cheesy interiors of Italian hair salons. Brand to Know: A Men’s Wear Line With a Nostalgic Bent 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z After Michael attended middle school and high school in Los Angeles, he returned here to study acting at New York University. Michael Gandolfini and the Riddle of Tony Soprano 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Mrs. Gallisdorfer, 28, is a middle school mathematics teacher at Valor Voyager Academy in Nashville. Mary Cooper, Scott Gallisdorfer 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z I faced my prejudices, my preconceived notions, my memories of the special-ed classroom in middle school, the one that was mocked cruelly by the rest of us kids. Motherlode: Life Before and After a Child's Diagnosis 2011-08-01T16:55:46Z My memory of late middle school and high school is that sexual comments, jokes and gestures pretty much defined the experience, and quickly became so commonplace that the question of “welcome” was moot. Motherlode Blog: Handling Sexual Harassment in Schools 2011-11-08T16:26:40Z This musical, however, is directed toward those in middle school and high school, and while it includes plenty of singing, rapping and dancing, it demonstrates that this crew isn’t one that young people should join. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z These challenges are difficult enough to navigate for the age-appropriate middle-school students, but when students are forced into middle school before they are ready to handle the challenges, it's a miserable experience. Motherlode Blog: Against Accelerating the Gifted Child 2012-10-14T12:00:25Z He made little videos with his friends for a few years, and then in middle school, attended a camp put on by The Film School in Seattle. The best and brightest of seattle’s young filmmakers 2013-04-24T22:10:50Z In middle school there’s such a ranking, such a hierarchy. Firoozeh Dumas sees the humor amid middle-school stress 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Disputed events, conflicting and biased accounts, misremembered details — all of that is nothing new to anyone who’s ever sat on a jury, endured a bad breakup or taught in a middle school. Step 1 to start loving ‘The Affair’: Admit there’s no such thing as truth 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z I understood that relative more fully in middle school. From overlooked extra to Spike Lee star: how I beat Hollywood's colorism 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z More than 3 million high school students, or more than 20% of all US high school students, used the product, along with 570,000 middle school students, according to the survey. FDA announces sweeping anti-smoking measures to target teen vaping 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Owen, also 12, has his own problems: he lives in terrible fear of his classmates' bullying at his dreary Los Alamos, N.M., middle school. 'Let Me In' Review: A Vampire Remake Worth Welcoming 2010-10-16T14:35:00Z Annette Goodyear was outside a middle school in Cecil County, Md., on Friday morning, guiding students across the street while wearing her neon orange crossing guard jacket. Crossing guard was hit by a car as she shoved a student out of the way: ‘You got to protect that child.’ 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Everything is embarrassing, the boys determine; everything in middle school, everyone changing at different rates, is so embarrassing. "Stranger Things" and the heartbreak of growing up 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z That was my Harry Potter when I was in middle school. Rick and Morty creators: 'We're pulling apart the tropes of sci-fi' 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z McGregor said she embraced theater as a middle school student in Florida, where she first encountered Shakespeare in a theater class. New York Theater Workshop Names Patricia McGregor as Artistic Director 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Back when I was in middle school, I was a big daydreamer, and most of those daydreams were of the “What if” variety. An Unwilling Einstein Who’s Full of Beans 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z But Ms. Hopkins never forgot that middle school crush. Her Sixth-Grade Crush Grew Up 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Christina Soontornvat and Joanna Cacao’s delightful graphic novel, “The Tryout,” portrays this version of middle school, and while there is a bully to be found in its pages, even he is afforded some depth. Game Face 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Unlike in the workplace—or even high school—middle school is a free-for-all, with no established social hierarchy. How to Beat Trump, According to Experts on Middle-School Bullies 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z “Bieber has 10 million fans – most are in middle schools, or standing at least 500 feet away from one.” The 21 Best Jokes from the Roast of Justin Bieber 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Season 3 finds the friends in the summer between middle school and high school — so it’ll probably be downright terrifying. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Stranger Things’ and Fireworks 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z Back in New York, he reunited with Mr. Benevento, a friend from middle school, and they eventually hit the road as the Duo, combining fierce extemporaneity with an eclectic approach to instrumental songwriting. He Gleefully Inhabits the Grateful Dead. No Tie-Dye, Please. 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z He was published in middle school and keeps in touch with his middle school English teacher, who encouraged him then and now to keep writing. SC prison holds writing program for prison inmates 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z In a blog post on Medium, he says his delivery is designed for middle school students with learning disabilities. How TikTok personalities are making a name for themselves by delivering news to Gen Z 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z I'd gone through my own identity crisis at my predominantly white middle school. Motherlode Blog: What Color Is Your Princess? 2012-10-28T13:00:18Z The young women began dancing through CityDance after-school programs at their elementary schools but found it difficult to continue dancing once they advanced to middle school. CityDance announces plans to transform D.C. school site 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z In the final analysis, I’m too sensitive for a public, inner city, “high-needs” middle school. Teaching ate me alive 2012-09-15T19:00:00Z This production from the innovative Lightning Rod Special begins as a middle school history lesson about the underground railroad. 10 Works Over 5 Years by Black Playwrights. All Intended to Unnerve. 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Erskine: This is funny but Sam, our third, will always say, "It was my peak in middle school. I hit it big and it's gone downhill since then." "PEN15" stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle: "We still feel like we're in seventh grade" 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z She is also navigating life at the local middle school, where she is the only Chinese-American student in an almost all-Caucasian student body. Figuring It Out: Two Novels About Ice Skating and Adolescence 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z But when you’re an adult, you made it through middle school. Back-to-School Wisdom From the Creators of Your Favorite Children’s Books 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z The nonprofit, which accepts donations of school supplies, builds a path for college beginning in middle school for students from low-income communities who will become the first in their families to earn a college degree. Here are the places that want your old eyeglasses, towels, blue jeans, vases and more 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z “It continued in that middle school. Students used expressions like ‘That’s so gay.’ What it’s like growing up with an LGBT parent, in their kids’ own words 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z As the daughter of an NBA player and mom of one of the best middle school players in the country, Tyisha has seen manipulation on multiple levels. The plight of young hoop stars who don't go pro 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z On Monday the National Coalition Against Censorship sent a letter to the school board, urging the book be restored to middle school libraries. John Green's 'The Fault in Our Stars' is un-banned in Riverside 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z The family moved to Silver Spring when she was small, and by middle school she attended a local theater camp. ‘Great Comet’ director follows Tony nomination with D.C. premiere 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Much like his hyperactive Twitter account, the essay collection features improbably humorous observations on such personal obsessions as Grindr, middle school trauma and his abuela’s ghost. John Paul Brammer Is Obsessed With Kate Bush 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Police in Hagerstown investigate the deaths of a woman and two young children found in a car at a middle school parking lot. AP-Mid-Atlantic News Coverage Advisory 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z At another, he taught middle school on the side for extra money. Every pro wrestler respects a good shtick. That’s why this one voted for Trump. 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Dear Carolyn: My daughter suffers from general anxiety and just finished middle school. Where’s my thank-you-for-thanking-me note? 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Even as children are starting puberty earlier, legislation currently advancing in the Republican-controlled House in Florida would effectively ban girls from even discussing their periods, according to the bill’s sponsor, until middle school. ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’: Beloved, Banned and Finally Adapted 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The American Marcus is a middle school outcast, but he is quite sanguine about his isolation, and not the least bit ashamed of wearing hand-knitted cardigans or of singing duets with his new-age helicopter mother. Television Review: NBC Rolls Out ‘About a Boy’ and ‘Growing Up Fisher’ 2014-02-21T23:28:58Z At his predominantly white middle school, he “got called the n-word,” he recalled. Meet Aminé, a Joyful Rapper With an Eye on Politics 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Instead, family time became sacred; world issues pushed aside in favor of tales from middle school. In revealing new memoir, Michelle Obama candidly shares her story 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Gorman was encouraged to really pursue her craft by her middle school teacher mother, Joan Wicks, and became the first person to hold the position of National Youth Poet Laureate at 16. Meet Amanda Gorman, the powerful poet laureate who voiced our hope for a unified, better America 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Students from a local middle school and her high school performed songs, told stories about Kelli and ate birthday cake. 5 months after slaying, teen's life celebrated 2012-04-03T03:38:00Z “Joel knew Ted from middle school, I knew him from work,” said Ms. Quon, who was 39 at the time. How a ‘Horrible Situation’ Turned Into a ‘Wonderful Blessing’ 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z In middle school, my best friend and I would hold hands just to attract this wild energy. From Elephant 6 to Deerhunter: The US's new psychedelia 2011-03-10T23:00:01Z Bell and his middle school buddies would spend lunch breaks tapping their pencils against cafeteria tables, creating makeshift beats. Jets’ Le’Veon Bell wants to be No. 1 on field, in rap game 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z In the book, which is for age 10 and older, texting plays a large part in identity mix-ups at a middle school. Middle school texting story inspired by century-old letter writer 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z By the time Ahmed entered middle school, the Cowboys had moved to Arlington and the Mohameds’ Zip code was deemed the most diverse area in the country. A year ago, Ahmed Mohamed became ‘Clock Boy.’ Now, he can’t escape that moment. 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z By middle school, I thought I was a boy born in the wrong body. Mom’s girly presents to me 2013-12-24T23:00:00Z Jason Segel is hugely likable as the middle school's laid-back gym teacher. 'Bad Teacher': Cameron Diaz comedy gets an average grade 2011-06-23T03:01:55Z Cummins contacted Greenwood and asked to show students the virtual reality equipment, because the employees they and other companies will hire in the future are in middle school now, Hughes and Irons said. Virtual reality program offers glimpse of careers 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z But for better or worse, readers will see parts of themselves reflected in her — especially young readers who are desperate to fit in and belong, who sweat under the relentless middle school spotlight. A New Novel From the Author of ‘When You Trap a Tiger’ 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Relatives say the 62-year-old Wright once taught music at a Brooklyn middle school and played at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Medical examiner: NYC jazz musician was stabbed 2011-05-11T21:12:14Z He later signs online during a break to teach his middle school students from the back of a Humvee. This teacher was called to protect the U.S. Capitol as a National Guard member. He now holds class from a Humvee. 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z Police brutality, poor housing, poor schools, food deserts, limited opportunities, racism, gang violence, and fatherlessness — all fell on Raekwon's head before middle school. Raekwon opens up about life before and with the Wu-Tang Clan 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z Reportedly, more than 400 parents have signed a petition against the book, with the intention of banning it from the middle school library. Inside the most controversial sex-ed books of all time 2014-05-06T22:58:00Z TIME: Big Mouth is based on your own experiences in middle school. Nick Kroll Turned His Embarrassing Puberty Stories into a New Series 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z They still hang out and have the same dynamic that they had in middle school, and they're cool kids. "PEN15" stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle: "We still feel like we're in seventh grade" 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z My older one started middle school, a new school with new teachers, friends, etc., virtually, and the younger is in elementary school. Busy Philipps’s Week: Coffee, ‘Little Women’ and Keeping It Together 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Later, in middle school, Ward answered a more noble calling when he rallied classmates to protect the rainforests. The Weird World of Adventure Time Comes Full Circle 2013-03-29T11:00:44Z “It was like watching your worst middle school nightmares play out in slow motion.” Everyone Has Left the Chat 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z Paula and I were never friends, even though we went to middle school together. Her Facebook disaster show 2012-11-20T01:00:00Z By middle school, he'd amassed an impressive collection of Broadway cast recordings. Randy Rainbow, singing truth to power 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z Who has that memorable of a middle school experience, let alone one that would justify you leaving your boyfriend for someone else?? We rewatched Netflix’s ‘To All the Boys’ rom-com trilogy to decide which movie is the best 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z I responded that I’d hated middle school and now that my daughter was that age, I was sifting through memories and trying to sort the then versus now and see how it all fit together. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z This past year, my younger child’s middle school gave out hundreds – literally hundreds – of awards for “academic excellence.” Is The Atlantic making us stupid? 2012-09-10T16:26:00Z None of this training did anything to help Ms. Rips fit in with her peers, a situation that had become horribly acute by middle school. Childhood Tales From the Chelsea Hotel 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z “I started getting high and doing a lot of drugs with friends from the time I was in middle school through high school,” she said. Her ‘Great Comet’ Glowed. Now She’s Heading to ‘Hadestown’ 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Living through middle school means surviving what feels like eons of awkwardness and confusion imprinting themselves on your body and soul. "PEN15" returns for another swim into the messiness of seventh grade 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z If Eleven has actually closed the gate for good, we could give the middle school drama our undivided attention. Our Biggest Questions After the 'Stranger Things' Season 2 Finale 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z At the start, we see him wandering among half a million penguins, all gathered on the coast — the film calls their spot Penguin City — like an awkward boy at a middle school dance. Around Town for Children for Aug. 2-8 2013-08-01T22:28:16Z His time in middle school will bring gifts and challenges, which is true for every family with a middle-schooler, so try to stay patient, forgiving and hopeful. Perspective | A son with ADHD and autism spectrum disorder is heading to middle school 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z SAT Presentations and discussions on career opportunities with biologists, researchers, educators and marine scientists for students attending middle school, high school and college, teachers and parents welcome, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Community calendar 2012-02-02T00:47:04Z A gangly arm rose above the crowd seated in the auditorium at Monroe Clark, a middle school 15 minutes from SeaWorld. ‘Blackfish’s’ director finds it hard to move on 2014-03-20T17:38:26Z Suffering from depression, she would talk of suicide, spend whole days shut in her room and — by middle school — draw Lisa into hours of violent argument every night. The Father of Personal Computing Who Was Also a Terrible Dad 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z During my grade school and middle school years, my mother and I lived in a suburb of Chicago. What is California cuisine? Whatever my immigrant mom is cooking. 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Leaning over to hear above the din of dishes and chatter, I told her that Kaylie Schiff read me a journal entry Katy had written when they were in middle school. Katy Tur Is Tougher Than She Looks 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z In middle school, she switched to the French horn to differentiate herself from all the girls who wanted to play the flute or the clarinet. Sasami Wanted to Appropriate White, Male Music. She Landed on Metal. 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z A history teacher saying “ching-chong-chong” and slanting his eyes while teaching my class about China in middle school. A Pop Culture Shock After the Trip of a Lifetime 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z His middle school tutors say shy Ahmed would always perk up when talking about his latest creation: a DVD player, a remote, things that lit and beeped and buzzed. A year ago, Ahmed Mohamed became ‘Clock Boy.’ Now, he can’t escape that moment. 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z The characters created by Jeff Kinney in his best-selling books here enter middle school, a potential minefield of embarrassments and threats to friendship. ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ Review: Growing Pains 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z The result is a bizarrely cheery and thus tonally incomprehensible show in which everything potentially painful is anesthetized by saccharine songs and middle school clichés. Review: ‘Trevor’ Is a Musical That Dare Not Speak Its Theme 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z It’s the only way to survive middle school. How to Parent Like the Japanese Do 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z The day before public schools closed in Boston, Ari Zimmet asked his middle school students to draw how they were feeling. The Quarantine Diaries 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Around the time I entered middle school, an unexplainable sadness began sapping my days of pleasure. I signed up for a suicide hotline: What I got sounded more like phone sex 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z All that started to change in middle school, where social currency is made and spent and where cruelty and fear become daily facts of life. How Does a Novelist Write About a School Shooting? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z As we walk by the middle school that inspired this moment, Mr. McCraney points out the spot on the second floor where he would stand, peering fearfully at his tormentors waiting for him outside. From Bittersweet Childhoods to ‘Moonlight’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z She attended a performing arts middle school in the San Fernando Valley before her acting work required her to turn to private tutoring as high school began. Creator of Nickelodeon Hits Ties New Show to Song and Dance 2010-03-25T21:51:00Z As early as middle school, he was equating self-expression with media constructs, enlisting a classmate to stage sham talk shows on a mock set in the friend’s basement. The Legacy of David Letterman, Icon of the Grizzled Generation 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z And while there’s no shame in not being as good as “The Silence of the Lambs,” shooting for the moon, as middle school yearbooks teach us, allows one to land among the stars. Review: ‘Clarice’ Is More CBS Cop Show Than ‘Hannibal’ 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z This 31-year-old single mom, who left her career as a middle school teacher to pursue music, considers herself a “late bloomer.” 'The Voice' recap: Blind auditions are now twice as nice 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z That land is a familiar place for middle school principal Margery Cooper in Brooklyn. Envelope, please: Oscar leaders deemed nap-worthy 2013-02-12T16:19:08Z She joined her middle school’s production of the musical “Hair.” For a Woman in a Wheelchair, Abortion Access Was One More Challenge 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z M3GAN sets it up like a young leading lady about to kill it in her middle school production of "Camelot." How "M3GAN" weaponizes music 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Then I took a group of middle school students fencing. The gym class wars: Was I glorifying violence with these physical education games? 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z “This young girl, not quite middle school yet, did the Cakewalk, with such swagger in her stance,” Ms. Williams said. The School That Camille A. Brown Built 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z From middle school, Lena keeps on going, through university. Elena Ferrante’s New Book: Art Wins 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Dear Carolyn: My partner's children, who are in middle school, will spend most of their spring break with us. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Not the spring break this teacher envisioned 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z When my daughter started at her new middle school, no one knew she was transgender, and she wasn't bullied. Austin was supposed to be a safe space for my trans daughter. Texas Republicans ruined that 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Timed as the show was to our own crush of illnesses, middle school interviews, and devastating losses, it rapidly became a cathartic outlet for an unprecedented torrent of emotions. "American Idol" is saving my family 2011-03-23T15:55:00Z I'm going to draw all of this back to your podcast, because I find it's very interesting that "Podcrushed" is all about stories of middle school horror. "You" star Penn Badgley thinks his killer Joe has "too many sides .. and he needs to die" 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z “The Catcher in the Rye” has been one of my favorites since middle school, though. Bill Gates Has Always Sought Out New Reading Recommendations 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z “Some people think that WE is a young upstart,” says Kelley Collings, who has been a district teacher for over 15 years, and WE’s candidate for special vice president of middle schools. “11,000 smart, committed teachers can change the world”: A group of working Philadelphia teachers is looking to upset the status quo of the teachers union 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z I think it was less Pavement and Guided by Voices – though those were on the list – and more Green Day and Nirvana, which is what I was listening to in middle school. You’re welcome, indie rock fans: Meet your next favorite album, Car Seat Headrest’s “Teens of Denial” 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Realize that middle school and high school is a blink of an eye in the amount of time of your entire life. Bobby Berk of ‘Queer Eye’ on self-care and what he wishes he’d been told when he was young 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z High schools and some middle school libraries around the country began stocking it. How a Debut Graphic Memoir Became the Most Banned Book in the Country 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Because a lot of the awkward incidents happened in middle school. 'Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl' puts Issa Rae in a cool position 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z I have poems in here about growing up in a middle school where everybody wanted to be a hooper, so we were wearing ankle weights, right? "People are actively, persistently racist": Poet Joshua Bennett on performative anti-racism 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z In a YouTube video that has since gone viral, she shares the story of how years ago, while still in middle school, she went on webcam chats with her friends. Amanda Todd’s only the start 2012-10-21T01:00:00Z I don't understand why US schools start foreign language instruction in middle school or high school, when humans' natural ability to easily absorb a second language is disappearing. Making Language Immersion Fun for the Kids 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z I hadn't had those since I was probably in middle school, or around the same time I was carrying that Lisa Frank thermos. Dinosaur nuggets and juice boxes: In defense of making lunch fun again 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z A 12-year-old boy solemnly explains a piece of writing he has just read aloud at a meeting of his middle school Lit Club. The Language of Love 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z My baby fell asleep to a xylophone version of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” that was just the suggestion of the band that I worshipped in middle school, like a Nirvana-flavored La Croix. Kidz Bop is the go-to of tot music. But do we really need to replace ‘tattoo’ with ‘hairdo’? 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z When Mr. Roberts was in middle school and watching dance videos, nearly everything he saw was of New York City Ballet. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z To help with the finances, Lori works as a secretary at a middle school. Small-town theaters struggle to survive in the digital age 2012-07-12T04:11:05Z Recently, her mother told Sofia, “I felt like I was able to help you that night, and I wish I’d been able to do that for you more in middle school.” How to talk to your middle-schooler (so they might actually listen to you) 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z But for many gay Gen Xers like me, the catalog was formative — the gay coming-of-age equivalent of my straight middle school friends drooling over a stolen copy of Playboy. Thoroughly Reading a Men’s Catalog, Making No Purchases 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z But I hadn’t seen anything that captured the true darkness of middle school. Rachel Bloom’s Life Is an Open Book 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z By middle school, Lanza says, “It was crystal clear something was wrong” with his son. “He would have killed me in a heartbeat” 2014-03-10T14:25:00Z “Most of the episodes from the movie are drawn from my own experiences in middle school,” he said. Critic’s Notebook: New York Asian Film Festival at Walter Reade Theater 2012-06-28T22:19:57Z Seventy more productions will take the stage before the end of the year, from middle schools to light opera companies. To life! ‘Fiddler’ is 50, lyricist Harnick is 90 In middle school, he said, he overcame his shyness and joined a choir. Juan Felipe Herrera of California to Be Next Poet Laureate 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z A Lake Forest middle school principal resigned Sunday in response to controversy over how the district handled his use of a work cellphone to send vulgar, harassing messages to a 22-year-old college student. Lake Forest principal who 'sexted' resigns 2011-11-20T23:24:00Z It focuses on middle school where everyone was awkward. Nick Kroll on returning to his filmmaking roots and the recommended age for starting "Big Mouth" 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Presentations on marine science careers for middle school, high school and college students; teachers and parents welcome, 9 a.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-01-31T19:50:13Z “He told them that when he was in middle school, his parents got divorced, and he took it hard and didn’t behave well.” 9 ways parents can help kids cope with jealousy 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z For his latest project, Stanton says he was inspired by a picture of a student from the Mott Hall Bridges Academy, a middle school in Brownsville, one of Brooklyn’s most crime-ridden neighborhoods. Humans of New York Founder Raises Over $700,000 for Inner-City Kids to Visit Harvard 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Hartman said Thompson's wife, who no longer lives with him, was her teacher in middle school and used to bring small animals such as a monkeys, snakes and owls to school. Ohio police hunting escaped exotic predators 2011-10-19T12:33:00Z Twelve middle schools each submitted about 10 student photographs, from beautiful portraits to abstract close-ups, action shots and delicious images of favorite foods. What Washington looks like, from the middle school perspective 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z I grew up near Chelsea — I went to middle school there — when the area was mostly decrepit piers, old warehouses and taxi garages. A Walk Through Harlem, New York’s Most Storied Neighborhood 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z She searched for it in her school library system and found there were copies in multiple middle schools and high schools, including the schools that her 13- and 17-year-old children attend, she said. How a Debut Graphic Memoir Became the Most Banned Book in the Country 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Augie and his best friend, Britt, are two smart, unpopular kids trying to survive middle school, and their friendship provides entertaining repartee and emotional depth to this fantastical novel. The best children’s books for June 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Maria Russo: This is the age, too, this middle grade and middle school reader, where parents often stop reading to their kids. Back-to-School Wisdom From the Creators of Your Favorite Children’s Books 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Rather, what disturbed me were the many stories about home-schoolers who were barely literate when they graduated, or whose math and science education had never extended much past middle school. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z I was in middle school when I began exploiting the God of my mother. “I’m a bad Jew”: Amid those celebrating Purim in Boro Park I felt more than ever like an outsider Jew — but I come from a long line of outsider Jews 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z Read on for a few tips and suggested reads from the people who get it: a children’s author, a middle school librarian and the book buyer at a favorite local toy store. Worried about kids and summer reading? Three experts are here to help. 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z But her parents are divorced, and when Malu ends up moving from Florida to Chicago for her mother’s new job, she has to figure out how to fit in at a new middle school. These books can help build strong girls — and boys — for today’s world 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z He looks like a guy who shows up in “Westworld” and says, Hey can someone show me where the middle school is? For ‘Saturday Night Live,’ No Shortage of Targets, Including Louis C.K. and Roy Moore 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z There was a point three months into writing it when I felt the kind of self-loathing that I haven’t felt since middle school. ‘Maybe I Do Have a Story to Tell’: Kal Penn on His Memoir 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z “In middle school, in Fengcheng, everyone else was an only child,” she said. In “One Child Nation,” Nanfu Wang Confronts China’s History, and Her Own 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z “My cousin had a crush on him” in middle school, she said, “and would always talk about him.” Focused on Their Careers, They Never Lost Sight of One Another 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z I saw “Pippin” on Broadway in May, but my original memory is of a middle school production many years ago. Broadway Darlings, Rejects and Mixed Memories 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z He transferred to an arts magnet middle school with a strong dance program. An Ailey Dancer Loyal to His Miami Roots and Mentor 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Before becoming a writer, he taught middle school. The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z "When I was in middle school and high school, I was over 100 pounds overweight," he said. Josh Trank works to defy 'Fantastic Four's' doomsayers 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Relatives tell the Daily News the 62-year-old Wright once taught music at a Brooklyn middle school and played at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. NYC jazz musician found dead in trunk at his home 2011-05-11T00:01:07Z The central pressure in the lives of middle school kids is social. How to Help Your Kids Handle Pressure 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z It’s how we interpret and act on that desire, not the desire itself, that creates the “conflict,” along with the circumstances of life — illness, kindergarten, divorce, autism, middle school — that change the pressures. Motherlode Blog: The Eternal, Internal Mommy Wars 2012-04-23T15:59:58Z But if I had been in middle school or high school it would have been pretty awful, like it was for so many people I interviewed when I was writing the book. Saadia Faruqi’s new novel explores racism against Muslims after 9/11 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z “It’s a difficult book because the themes are very smart and mature, and yet it’s read in middle school. So those two don’t necessarily dovetail,” said Silver, the producer. ‘The Giver’: Jeff Bridges’s nearly 20-year journey to turn YA novel into a feature film In middle school, she started playing an instrument, the French horn, which allowed her to express this. Siblings’ love of music and science help them deal with family problems 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z When I was in middle school, there was a more white supremacist kind of group I didn’t get along with. Sam Rockwell on His Secret Past as a Really Bad Break Dancer 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z But he said that boys around middle school age — when they are at their vocal peak, just before their voices change — are often reluctant to. In a Season of Boys’ Choirs, a Question: Why No Girls? 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z I was in a public school in middle school. SXSW: Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy on 'Breakfast Club' 30th anniversary 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Cartoonist Maria Scrivan, creator of the syndicated comic “Half Full,” follows the travails of a fictional girl’s difficult introduction to middle school. Review | Some graphic novels to read in 2020 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Season 4 — as moving and wrenching a run of television as has ever aired — follows four city students through a year of middle school, their options already starting to fall away one by one. ‘The Wire’ Stands Alone 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z It focuses on Bronzeville, the storied African-American neighborhood on the South Side, where Dr. Ewing, as she notes in an impassioned introduction, taught middle school for three years after graduating from the University of Chicago. Eve Ewing Blasts From Chicago to Space, With a Boost from Marvel 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, I wrote an article about teaching middle school, about the happiness I find in the classroom and in the education of my students. Motherlode Blog: Farewell, Count von Count 2012-08-27T17:45:36Z We went to a party where there were a lot of kids from my middle school there. "PEN15" stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle: "We still feel like we're in seventh grade" 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z They detail the emotional heights and depths of middle school in an entertaining, yet honest, way that resonates with young readers. The Force is with 'Origami Yoda's' creator 2011-12-24T05:55:58Z Once when I was writing an email to my son's middle school teacher, I signed off with my usual "Thanks so much". When Autocorrect Goes Wrong (And So, So Right) 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z When he was called to D.C. for duty, “my first thought was, ‘What about my kids?’” said Kohut, who teaches both elementary and middle school students. This teacher was called to protect the U.S. Capitol as a National Guard member. He now holds class from a Humvee. 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z He ends up before the Supreme Court because he is — wait for it — reinstating slavery, at least in his own house, and segregating the local middle school, boxing whites out. Review: ‘The Sellout,’ Paul Beatty’s Biting Satire on Race in America 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z He, too, faced tough choices in middle school, just like Bryan does. Author Torrey Maldonado knows how kids can be caught in a tight spot 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Less than a mile away was affluent Sherman Oaks, with its stately homes and two-car garages, where Khan-Cullors attended a gifted program in middle school. Black Lives Matter and the Intrepid Lives That Preceded It 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z There’s another one who writes well, but whose portrayals of personal relationships seem stuck in middle school, and I can’t read her, either. John Sandford: By the Book 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The school seeks to establish itself as an exemplary middle school by developing programs that are responsive to student needs. What a party flavor: Feta cheese and a light lemon dressing complete the Mediterranean quinoa salad 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z She was in middle school when her grades started slipping below the minimum to participate in DREAM. Bethesda’s CityDance receives arts program award at the White House 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z If you had some kind of magical middle school experience, do your best to relate to what you think she may be feeling. Perspective | Teen is often late to school, but punishing her isn’t the answer 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Khan-Cullors grew up poor in Los Angeles, and attended a gifted program in a middle school in Sherman Oaks, a nearby affluent neighborhood. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Hurwitz professes an enduring interest in vigilante justice — he developed an obsession with the Punisher in middle school and more recently wrote several issues of that comic for Marvel. Gregg Hurwitz is full of thrilling, erudite contradictions 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z In middle school I once spent my bus fare at Russell Stover, assuming the bus driver would let me ride free, which he did. Modern Love: In Bitter Moments, Reaching for the Sweet 2010-09-03T19:50:00Z I was a shy child, and vastly preferred books to people, so I devoured absolutely everything with no discernment at all until I was in middle school, which is excellent training to be a novelist. Lauren Groff: By the Book 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Smith says she’s troubled by the approach to poetry that she sees in too many high schools and middle schools. Tracy K. Smith named new U.S. poet laureate 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Messer, 11, who will be going to middle school next year, said, “I enjoy it.” NC dad takes pop culture teaching to next level 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Palacio The book kicks off when he starts middle school and follows him right through to the uplifting ending. 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