Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be the bottom of the barrel, the lowest of the low? Just ask your 7th grader. They will tell you exactly what they think about being a 7th grader.
The first thing they will probably say is that it isn’t what they would call “a good time”. I know it certainly wasn’t for me. One of the worst parts of being a 7th grader is dealing with 8th graders. Eighth graders have just enough power over 7th graders to be obnoxious. Don’t get me wrong, 8th graders have it pretty rough, but it is nothing compared to the plight of a 7th grader. Eighth graders think they are superior. They think they have it all because they are older. Sometimes you just want to tell them to sit-down. It’s not like they weren’t in a 7th grade just a year ago. To all the eighth graders out there, you may be one notch above 7th graders on the totem pole, but you certainly aren’t at the top.
Another horrible thing about being a 7th grader is walking in the hallways. Seventh graders are the shortest and most inexperienced hallway walkers there are. Yes, they do bounce through the hallway, running into unsuspecting high schoolers like it’s an enormous pinball machine. However, there is no need for the highs choolers to swat them away like flies. Don’t get me wrong, even 7th graders know that they aren’t great at making their way down hallways, but they are trying to get places just like the rest of us.
Everyone knows that 7th graders are annoying, even they know they are annoying, but the fact of the matter is is that they are still people. They aren’t flies to be swatted away. They aren’t the metal balls in the great big pinball machine that is a high school and middle school, even though they may resemble it when walking down the hallways. They may be the bottom of the totem pole, but they are part of the totem pole, nonetheless.
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