Top Ten Reasons Why People Hate Middle School

I agree! I went to a bilingual school as an elementary schooler, so I had two teachers who didn't give too much homework, and back then I was a smart kid and I would do it. Now we have seven teachers, and the only class you don't get homework from everyday is PE. It puts too much pressure on us and it's hard to complete 2-3 hours of pointless assignments on our time away from school. Not to mention, if you get full credit on something, your grade goes up by like one percent and if you fail it, you drop at least one letter grade! Thankfully I'm in 8th grade and I won't have to deal with this in about 8 months. A lot of people have told me that high school is better, and the one I'm trying to go to is one of the best in my country so I hope that's true.

I can't say that it was necessarily bad in the beginning, since everyone in sixth grade and the first half of seventh grade didn't seem to really be bothered by me. In a way, I feel like this made everything worse, since I wasn't expecting everyone in my world to wake up one morning and decide, "Well, since I'm too pathetic to handle my own hormones, I think I'm just going to make someone who isn't going through my same problem miserable for no reason at all". Not to say that my life was one hundred percent perfect before they decided to gang up on me. I was already having trouble with my family, but I guess whatever problems I had didn't seem to matter whatsoever. I don't even think I had any friends during that time, since anyone who was considered a 'friend' seemed to always want to take everything out on me, and then blame me for our dysfunctional relationship. I am just so glad that all of this is over now. To those of you eighth graders who are experiencing a similar problem, please do realize that high school (although, not too great of a place itself) is much better than middle school. To those of you who are entering middle school, and weren't the most popular kid growing up, my advice to your is; 1. Ignore anyone who makes you miserable. 2. Don't be afraid to stand up for yourself if someone is trying to destroy your property or is physically hurt you, in fact, try to report such treatment to a trusted adult (although, there are no guarantees that you'll receive justice, since most individuals are selfish enough to assume that at your age, you're only trying to get attention). 3. Enjoy what friendships you have while you have them, they could go possibly disappear for the dumbest of reasons at anytime. 4. Lastly, write down how you feel at a time when you're alone, your troubles will eventually leave your mind. In fact, if you're someone who enjoys writing, you could write a story about how you feel, and if you really want to, you can post it on the... more

The food is actually a lot better than it was in elementary school. Plus there's a snack bar and desserts, and a variety of drinks! Plus it's cheap, how could you go wrong?

Umm, are lunch tastes awesome. It's basically like a food court. And that means pizza everyday!

That's why I always bring my lunch from Home. Another reason is because you can save a lot of money!

So, let's see here...oh yah! I have a science fair project that is causing ridiculous amounts of stress. On top of that, grades aren't helping. I oot all A's except for one C and two B minuses, but all anyone cares about was those Bs and C. Not the A, or A+. What the heck!? Not only that, I also seem to be an outcast at my school, because I made noises sometimes, and now I don't, but now everyone think I'm a retard! And I had a hundred in ELA, and because of ONE HOMEWORK I now got a 53! WHAT!?!?

Elementary school: Here, we're gonna help you out, okay? Take it easy, little buddy. Everything is gonna be okay!
Middle school: Alright you're on your own. If you swear you're gonna get a suspension, if you don't eat lunch you might as well kick yourself out cause you're getting expelled.

It's so annoying. I had three best friends. All of them (even though we were so close and I showed loyalty) they are left me. Betrayed me. They left me to become a social outcast. I mean, how can you just lose interest in a friendship? They just left me,never played or talked to me at school. I never even fought with them. Here's a funny thing. I had some side friends but all of them had best friends that they much rather hang out with. I became friends with a new girl and she was clingy, which I like. That means she wanted extremely for me to be her friend. But my ex best friend (who has been my friend since kindergarten) asked my new friend to come with her and sit with her at lunch. I got so pissed when my new friend started talking and hanging out with my ex friend and left me to be alone. Everyone is just the same, right? Or at least in my class.

I didn't get any of my previous friends in my third-grade class, so I made friends with three other girls. We were really good friends, but in fourth-grade I learned the truth; the second they weren't in the same class as me, they all ditched me for their own friends. They didn't try to keep in touch with me, or talk to me in recess or gym (my school puts three/two classes in the same grade together), and every time I saw them in Chorus or Orchestra, only one of them would actually talk to me and be my partner. One moved away, but when she came back, she didn't even look at me, let alone talk to me. The truth is, I was only their friend because their friends were in different classes. I mean, they were good friends, but they didn't ever so speak to me after third-grade, like they never knew me. I tried to talk to them, but they just said "Hi" like I was a complete stranger dressed like Dumbledore. Loosing friends is sad, but the bright side is that my old friend and a new friend were in fourth-grade.

There are a lot of those at my school. There's this one teacher that I extremely hate because she very strict. One time I was hanging out with 2 other friends and she told us not to hang out with each other. I KNOW RIGHT! that's STUPIDO, another time we were singing the national anthem. On the second verse I decided to make up my own lyrics. Then straight after that the same teacher told us off for not singing and told us " ILL MAKE YOU SING IT EVERYDAY", Finally my friend felt sick and that same teacher won't let her out of school, even though she nearly fainted

All of my friends turned against me because of my ex-bestfriend's jealously of me. She didn't want me to have anymore friends because I was happy without her. She told the whole school lies about me and now I have NO FRIENDS! Sometimes I actually want to switch schools because of her. She ruined the way I look at friendship. I hope she's happy now..

My best friend suffered from extreme bullying last year. And it was all because she was standing up for her friend. Everyday I feel so bad for her. That she had to go through all of that is horrifying. But they left her alone and I'm helping her recover from her shaken up experience.

No point in recess for me. All I did was stand around and talk with my friends, or run around with freeze tag, or the swings. I kind of grew out of it and it was turning boring for me anyway.

Not true. I have fifteen minutes between second and third period, and a whole hour for lunch between fourth and fifth. I'm in eighth grade and I find it perfectly suitable.

I miss recess, no friends though but at least I had a break from the learning! Seriously! I need fresh air!

True... My experience with these popular girls is a sad one. It's funny how most of the "unpopular" ones would assumed that these girls will do better in the future. But unfortunately, most of them do not. They don't take sex ed or life lessons seriously (from the privilege they were given) from the school programming(s) that they were in. Most of them end up getting pregnant and left by their baby daddies after high school, they become physically unattractive, or have no real friends at all.

In elementary school, being popular was way easier. All you had to do (at least in my school) was be yourself. There was this one girl who was a tomboy, but she was super super popular because of the fact that she did not hide her true colors. I was sort of popular-ish, because of my kind personality.

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And then middle school. How come I JUST STARTED MIDDLE SCHOOL IN AUGUST and I am already seeing this? In my middle school, all you have to do is be pretty. No one cares if you act like a douche bag or not. I remember asking my friend how to be popular at my school, because she knows some of the popular kids, and she just said, "You have to be pretty, skinny, and curse a lot." She is literally the only nice popular kid at my school. All the popular kids are complete bullies, and they're not even funny. I am an OUTCAST this year just because I don't curse, and I'm not pretty or skinny. I'm nice, and that's really all that matters. Hell, my friend even talked someone out of suicide once, and she's at the bottom of the social ladder, along with me and some of the actual NICE people. So I realized, that the beautiful world I thought we lived in wasn't so beautiful. People can act like douches and get away with it because of their status in society.

So, if anyone going to middle school read this far, take my advice: Don't be popular if the "popularity rules" at your school are the same as mine. Just know that if you have a good personality, it's better to be a good friend and kinda low on the social pyramid, than to be a bully and be on the top. Because, I'm not even sure if they have real friends anymore.

My English teacher gave us a reading project then gave us a seven part project on the book, then se tells us "I'm gonna give you guys a break" and then next week she gives us another project. It is so annoying like we have stuff to do

In one of classes we never actually learned anything. The teacher just gave us instructions to follow for a different project every week.

In social studies I have this teacher that right after you have another with NO break time.

Having a hard time opening them.

They really do. Suddenly everything you do matters. If you aren't friends with the "popular" people, you're considered an outcast. And you talk to ONE boy and suddenly everyone thinks you like him. You have to be careful of your every move because your scared what someone else will think. Your basically LIVING for SOMEONE ELSE.

If I wore the same shirt that I did the week before, at least one person would say "oh my god you wore that shirt last week! " And I'm just like oh sorry I forgot that I hate an endless closet full of clothes...

Revolution food is fire, better than my last school. A WHOLE lot better

Bruh we used to have revolution
I thought we were the only ones!

They always try to take advantage of you as a friend, then backstab you.

Especially when you get competitive with people who used to be your friends

You finally start to understand the real world. Not everyone is who they seem to be. They can smile and laugh with you one day, and the next they're the one who started the awful rumor about you. I thought the world was a happy place before Middle School, but I obviously was wrong. The reality is honestly you can't trust anyone. The real world is an horrible place. Now you know what REALLY to expect in the future.

My parents don't get me a phone but suddenly EVERYONE has one?! I get made fun of cause I don't have instagram and snapchat and all the "in" things, it's so annoying. and our teacher when we are taking a math test on quadratic functions and square roots (where we get to use calculators) ASSUMES everyone has a phone and when I ask her if I can borrow her calculator she says "What about your phone? use that instead! " it makes me angry!

The whole 6th grade was at an assembly, and our principal asked, "How many of you have a phone? " And pretty much everyone raised their hand. Except me.