School dance drama.

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School dance drama.

School dance drama.

Our junior high dance was yesterday, and starting with the first slow dance it started resembling a book by Lisi Harrison for the entire sixth grade.

Some of the hightlights were a dramatic shouting match between my friend and her crush, a certain girl's crush finding out that she liked him but didn't want to date him or dance with him thanks to my other friend, that friend dramatically declaring that this was all her fault, a boy crying because he didn't have the courage to ask a girl he liked to dance, and about five people at a time crying in the girls' bathroom. 

Are dances always like this? 

submitted by Tiffany W.
(April 14, 2012 - 10:49 am)

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Only junior high, Tiffany.  I mean high school definitely has its drama, but not half as much as junior high, at least to me.  But honestly, I did NOT like my years in junior high.  Even though I was homeschooled, I did enough activities with junior high kids to find out that everything was drama, boys, drama, snotty, backstabbing, boys, drama. I wish you the best, and my advice: Stay above it all!

submitted by R~D~, age 15
(April 14, 2012 - 1:54 pm)

Only junior high, Tiffany.  I mean high school definitely has its drama, but not half as much as junior high, at least to me.  But honestly, I did NOT like my years in junior high.  Even though I was homeschooled, I did enough activities with junior high kids to find out that everything was drama, boys, drama, snotty, backstabbing, boys, drama. I wish you the best, and my advice: Stay above it all!

submitted by R~D~, age 15
(April 14, 2012 - 1:54 pm)

I don't know anything about junior high. Is that grade 7-10? In Canada we have middle school for grades 6-8 or 7-8. 

Anyway, I currently attend a public school- and it's actually pretty fun because there are a lot more people my age than at my old private schools- and I've been to a few dances. The first one of the year everyone was all happy-go-lucky and Meet New People (it was at the beginning of the year) but at the second one, a grade eight girl started crying because her boyfriend was, um, "dancing" (actually, something worse) with another girl. There's also That Awkward Moment When the slow music starts playing. heh.

And a girl who used to be my friend (no I'm not extremely mad at her right no, not at all) asked a boy to slow dance with her- as a joke apparently (but not really)- but he did dance with her and The Post-Slow-Dance Events decreed that she must be interoggated by this boy's lovers (he's part of the English pack in the school- aka the locals), asked if she had a crush on him, and asked when would she ask him out.

Oh, and because grade seven boys are annoying creatures (in my school anyway) they ask you to go to the dance with them and take a "maybe- but I really just don't want to say no" as a yes and then make fun of you for a whole month because it was a joke. I speak from experience. :/

And RD is right, middle school/junior high is all boysboysboys WE'RE NOT FRIENDS ANYMORE boysboysboys SHE'S SO STUCK UP omghe'sactuallyprettyhot SHE'S TRYING TO STEAL ALL MY FRIENDS repeat 100x. But it can be entertaining if you approach it with the right attitude. And try to forget what those two girls say behind your back every other week.

And there I was thinking that grade four was done and over with...

 

In the US I think junior high is usually 7th and 8th grade.

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submitted by Olive
(April 14, 2012 - 8:09 pm)

@Olive: yeah, 7th and 8th grades (sometimes 6th) are considered middle school and/or junior high. A lot of people I know consider them to be the same thing. :)

submitted by Snake
(April 15, 2012 - 4:40 pm)

Here we don't have a junior high and high school. During fourth grade you take about two tests a week, and depending on the test grades you get into one of two schools. (It could be different in a different state, but this is how it is in the state I'm in.) In these schools, it goes from grade 5th - 12th. 

We don't really have dances at our school. I know we have parties, but I'm always too scared to go to them because (1) I'm a chicken and (2) I really don't think people my age would be there. :) Sorry, I can't give much advice, Tiffany W. 

submitted by Elizabeth M., age 12, Germany
(April 16, 2012 - 8:01 am)

We call it middle school, but it's grades 6-8, which is what I think you're talking about.  I've been to dances, but I am not what one would call 'popular', so my friends and I just sit in a corner and talk or stand towards the side of the dance floor and dance.  That means I never see the drama.  I've heard, however, about a girl who was pushed toward someone's boyfriend during a slow dance.  They were pretty much forced to slow dance, and the girl got all mad at her even though it wasn't her fault.  Yeah, don't worry about the drama unless you're involved.

submitted by Melody, age 13, Just being awesome
(April 18, 2012 - 7:51 pm)