People are a little mean in high school, but in middle school you've got all those asswhipes trying to become official popular kids and becoming bullies to try to compensate for their lack of popularity.

People always talk about high schools being mean, but there's no comparison.

[No, I'm not in middle school anymore (barely high school either), I'm saying this in retrospect because my dad was talking about it today and I was like yeah, wtf. People have that backwards.]

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i never got bullied, but i'll take your word for it i guess...

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no, it's late elementary school that's the worst.

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From age 10-14ish kids are really horrible.

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Then there's high school, a place where there's such a variety of people and everyone can find some group to fit in.  You have students from all over the township in that high school, and because there's so many people, it's not that much of a care to be the "absolute popular" kid.

Middle school though, those are the awkward years.  You're going through puberty and you know longer share the same school as the elementary kids, so there is no one to look up to you.  Instead, these kids only have the high schoolers to look up to.  However, their view of high schoolers is often tainted by what they see on tv or what has always been portrayed as what high school kids are like.  They think popularity is the shit, and the only way to acquire popularity is by being mean.

In the end though, it comes down to middle schoolers often are a bunch of pre-pubescent, moody, bitches.

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But yeah, from my experience with each of primary school, middle school, high school, and college, I can say that middle school struck me as the friendliest, and I noticed this both while I was there and in retrospect.

Surely, though, all of these things vary a great deal by school.  Different schools have different people, cultures, etc.

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A lot of the bad times had to do with me being different.  Kids don't really understnad that everyone isn't the same and you are not going to fit in all the time.  

I had a back brace and braces on my teeth.  Imagine how much I felt like I stood out.  Kids wanted to know about it.  I was shy, wanted to just fit it, and not be noticed.