<p>I'm an incoming sophomore, and most days, I still miss middle school. This could be because my middle school was significantly better in terms of academics and community.... I had more friends and I was kind of in love with one of my teachers. But besides the point, I miss how in middle school no one used their phones in class and everyone respected the teachers. Nearly all the teachers were amazing. I was surrounded by really intelligent kids. You knew everyone in all your classes, and it was year round (a schedule I prefer) and everything was just wonderful. I get nostalgic most of the time, and it doesn't help that I visit the teacher I was/am in love with quite often. I just went over to help him prepare for the new year a few weeks ago, and it kind of hurt to assign locks, make seating charts and organize first day packets. It feels like yesterday that I was entering 8th grade.</p>
<p>Does anyone else share these feelings? Shouldn't they have disappeared by now?</p>
<p>I just think in so many ways my middle school was superior to my high school. I felt my education was more well-rounded, and though I received less work than in my first year of high school, the work was sometimes more difficult and it actually challenged me.</p>
<p>add me to that list. life was simple yet beautiful. heck i miss it a lot when your friends were happy with who you are not who they want you to be.</p>
<p>I don’t miss middle school at all, I hated it. The students were meaner and less mature. There was also less freedom. I feel like high school is easier to enjoy and it’s so much more important. But I probably just had a really bad middle school experience and i don’t have many good friends.</p>
<p>No…yeah, no. High school is way better for me; middle school was boring and the kids were even worse. I have a better social and academic life now than middle school. It wasn’t terrible, but for me, high school is better. Obviously, it varies per person and there’s nothing wrong with liking middle school better. </p>
<p>@Nithinlw for some reason my track (in middle school) was full of really bright, mature kids. I mean, we had one girl who got pregnant at 13 but she was the exception. There was some pettiness, and I guess I didn’t experience it as much because I had a well defined bunch of friends (not a group as they didn’t all hang out with each other but a few nice friends) and no one really made fun of me. Except in 6th grade. In sixth grade, in the locker room, this girl came up to me, scoffed and then said, “Do you even have any friends?”
That was bad. But I had friends.
Except in 7th grade. In 7th grade, I only had one friend and she ended up being pretty nasty. But anyways, I guess I’m nostalgic for 8th grade rather than middle school altogether. 8th grade was my year. :)</p>
<p>changing school 3 times during high school was the key for me. while had some amazing experiences, worst possible nightmare at times made amazement of high school like knowing a big shark is coming after this experience.</p>
<p>I hated 8th grade, but everyone else hated me as well so I guess it was a mutual hate High school has so much more freedom, and you actually get to choose your own classes! But I went to a Catholic middle school with a lot of rich, fake, hypocritical kids so I don’t really miss it at all. My middle school experience wasn’t really “middle school” at all.</p>
<p>I feel sad for those who had sucky middle school experiences. It does seem to be more common to enjoy high school more than middle school though, so it’s not too devastating.</p>
<p>The only thing I like more about high school (so far) is the opportunities when it comes to classes. You have so many electives to choose from and you basically get to design your own education (not as much as college, but relatively to middle school). I also like the privilege that juniors and seniors earn to go off campus for lunch. That’s about it though.</p>
<p>Freedom comes with responsibility, which I don’t think many high schoolers exhibit so yeah…still going for middle school. Why aren’t there more middle school tv dramas like Degrassi: The Next Generation when it first started? I’m addicted to (my) middle school culture. I can’t wait until I can be my old teacher’s TA there. I will be excited everyday. </p>
<p>Another thing I strangely miss? Lockers.</p>
<p>We don’t use them at my high school, and I loved having to worry about if my lock was broken and fitting all my crap and ugh. Memories. <3</p>
<p>Lol @ “I had more friends and I was kind of in love with one of my teachers. But besides the point, I miss how in middle school no one used their phones in class and everyone respected the teachers.”</p>
<p>I agree that the teachers were more personal and caring, but from my experience in middle school there was alot more immaturity and alot more people used phones in class. There was the thing of less separations or boundaries though, meaning no separations into "Honors, AP, ACP, CP, etc that there is in high school. So I guess I miss some of the people I knew in that sense. In middle school, there were also less boundaries of who you could talk to and it was easy to be social with a bunch of people that I wouldn’t necessarily be friends with today. But overall, I don’t really miss it that much. There’s a time to move on, especially when you’re going to college next month lol</p>
<p>LOL @shawnspencer , I’m going to be a senior and still heartbroken over the unrequited love story between my 8th grade language arts teacher and I. …Honestly that’s probably why I miss middle school so much but…psshh… HE WAS A REALLY GREAT TEACHER, OKAY? HE LET ME BE LATE FOR ALGEBRA AND ALWAYS GAVE ME BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS AND TOLD ME HE CARED ABOUT ME AND IT WAS JUST SO…WONDERFUL. </p>
<p>(Still is, actually. We talk all the time… :D)</p>
<p>Anyways… in high school, I find it’s more difficult to create bonds with your teachers because we have block scheduling, which basically means you’re going to have most teachers for a semester and then never see them again. Also, my high school is terrible at selecting qualified teachers. Nearly half at my school have been arrested for something (usually driving under the influence ■■■).</p>
<p>Most of my track were honors level material so I didn’t have that problem though I will admit: I NEVER see the regular (non honors) kids. Never. It’s like they’re in an entirely different part of campus in high school. Quite strange.</p>
<p>Middle school was pretty much the opposite of what high school has been socially, in that is was pretty horrible and almost pointless. Different years have different experiences, but my 8th grade teacher said that my brother’s class, which is 3 years below me, was the best class ever because everyone was friends with each other, and that my class was generally the worst. There were huge cliques and drama, and I was mainly that kid that people wanted to single out for stuff (Being a nerd, not having a cell phone, whatever). I have pretty much cut off contact with everyone in that class, as everyone in my 8th grade graduating class basically stayed inside the same county for high school, when I now have a commute that is a bit over an hour.</p>
<p>High school has been so much better in that I have met so many interesting and diverse people. Most people at my school are pretty intelligent and have their own genuine interests, and they will pretty much always help you if you need something. Also, while I am not ranting against religious people in general at all, at my catholic middle school the priest would come in every Monday during religion class and tells us about how gays are immoral, climate change isn’t real, and how abstinence is the best method for staying clean while not accidentally getting anyone pregnant. I have been able to rid myself of many of those views since then (It sometimes shocks me how I at one point believed his sayings about gay people, even as an impressionable 13 year old), but a lot of my old classmates still hold many of those non-scientific views.</p>
<p>I still go to a Catholic high school, but it is run by the Jesuits, and they are one of the few great things I think the church has. They are extremely academic and accommodating of all types of people, and Pope Francis is a good example of that. I don’t identify with the church any more but I have great respect for the Jesuits and all of the service and education they do (My freshman Physics teacher used to direct fighter jets, climbed mount fuji, and then came to my high school to teach Physics, and inspired in me my current passion of studying the universe).</p>
<p>So I have had completely opposite experiences from a local middle school to a pretty large and diverse high school, and I’m grateful for all of the friends I have met who always brighten my day and inspire me to enjoy life.</p>
<p>Right. Got to remember that not everyone falls in love with their language arts teachers…</p>
<p>9th grade has been a boring phase in my life.</p>
<p>I mean, sure, it’s interesting to watch kids get high before school starts in the parking deck and I guess the PDA is pretty different…but I’d take explosions of acne and girls blushing over period stains any day over superficial kids who take everything so seriously and yet completely brush off the idea of a successful future.</p>
<p>The amount of terrible Catholic middle schools saddens me. My school was a regular public school, but because of its location, most of the kids assigned there were pretty wealthy and of a conservative nature. I didn’t even care though because even though many were conservative, they were all kind and generally accepting. It’s probably a classic case of rose colored glasses but I remember the good instead of the bad. The greatest thing was the faculty, by far.</p>
<p>The only thing I miss about middle school were the milkshakes at my old middle school before I moved to a new one. They were the bomb (now I’m reminiscing). </p>
<p>I miss the people and the memories I had there, I was even close with some students’ parents. It was a small school (wasn’t even a middle school, was there for nine years with basically the same people, so I got attached).
But I never felt like I was anything there, I didn’t feel like there were options or opportunities…
I do miss some things, and I get the nostalgic feels from time to time but I’ve sort of moved on. </p>
<p>Hmm do I miss being made fun on a daily basis and having absolutely no friends? I should think not. I hated middle school because I was so behind the “smart” kids because of my situation. I hated being rejected from program after program and every magnet school; virtually nobody cared or wanted to help me in middle school, though I reached out for it. There was just a huge gap (at least in my school) between people of certain backgrounds. And frankly, many of the people in my situation haven’t even made it. </p>
<p>If I miss ONE thing, it’s the fact that I breezed through the academics and had time to do pretty much whatever I pleased. </p>
<p>On a food comparison, high school and middle school had their ups and downs. 6th grade was the last year before the switch to “healthier school lunches.” I had my last snack bar slurpee in 7th grade before removal. High school school lines took a load of time to get a meal.</p>
<p>I actually go to the same school now that I went to in middle school, so I still pretty much see the same people. Somehow though, it’s completely different. Middle school sucked for me. Aside from stress, high school is great.</p>
High school has so much more freedom, and you actually get to choose your own classes! But I went to a Catholic middle school with a lot of rich, fake, hypocritical kids so I don’t really miss it at all. My middle school experience wasn’t really “middle school” at all.</p>