The Pros And Cons Of Middle Schoolers

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Middle schoolers; they are young, distracting, irresponsible and blame worthy. But as East Jordans 2014-2015 school year ended our school board decided it was an abundant idea to put middle school students in with the high school students. At first it was fine, until middle school students had classes with us, because Middle Schoolers should not be intertwined with high school students and their classes.
The school board needs to change middle school class regulations , Or bring back the Middle School building. The classes that the middle school students are attending causes unfairness to some high school students. Not only do high school students need certain credits to graduate but middle school students are younger and they have their whole high school careers ahead of themselves. Certain colleges require better academic credits or more than what it takes to graduate. Also middle school students with their attitudes and actions affect the students around them and their learning process, while they still have 4+
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by “younger” meaning they are not as developed in schooling, they don't care as much and they are most likely to be bullied or forced into peer pressure. For example, being younger has countless advantages but when it comes to high school disadvantages like bullying will occur more often, as well as peer pressure. Being little and not knowing how to say no they become easily targeted when it comes down to it. Facing facts middle school students do not care as much, they tend to think everything will come easy to them, but having high school classes gives them a wake up call and forces them to change everything that they did in middle school before they are ready. Being a younger student in a higher class causes troubles in understanding certain academic requirements because they are not fully developed in learning like upperclassmen; this proving once again that they are too young to have high school

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