LOL, I forgot not everybody is up-to-date on everything!

[conuly]

Eva and Ana have been homeschooled the past few years specifically to avoid our god-awful middle school. It's really, truly, legitimately bad. Like, they had to invent a new circle of hell bad. Like, in the past month, multiple students at that school have told me, apropos of absolutely nothing that there are a lot of fights and people get beat up every month. Like, people who don't live in this neighborhood and aren't zoned for that school know how bad it is.

(The academics aren't so good either.)

So if you were scratching your head wondering "But is she not already attending school?", well, no, that's the point.

(And I feel her when she says she wants more social time. I think that's extremely valid. It's not something I wanted at that age, but she's much more extroverted than I am. I'd be happier about it if she didn't vehemently shoot down everything her parents and I have tried for the past three years to get her more social time during the school day.)

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[siderea]

It sounds like she wants an instant best friend

Hmmmm, no, I think it sounds like she realizes she's being abandoned: her big sister won't be home schooling with her any more, because big sister is going to school.

I think her freak out is that she's going to lose her best friend. Or rather, lose the one friend she's been going through the majority of her days with.

I think it's because she doesn't want to be home schooled alone.

[conuly]

I think you're right. The irony is that she hated being schooled with Ana. It was constantly "she's doing less work than I am" (she wasn't) or "she's in my space" or "I can't work if you two are talking and I refuse to go to another room" or "I can't work quietly and I refuse to go with Connie to another room" or "I don't want to participate in this thing where we both are being schooled together unless she lets me do all the talking".

[siderea]

Awwwww, the poor bubbeleh is losing having someone to complain about. That must be terribly hard on her.

(Only half joking. Aunt C and D's relationship was 80+ years of continuous sniping punctuated by brief periods of comparative peace when one or the other Wasn't Talking to the other. D was devastated when Aunt C died. Also, is now having trouble managing her snarkiness, no longer having a designated victim for it.)

[conuly]

:)

I'm reliably informed by the homeschool forum I frequent that 7th graders are just major jerks and this is normal. I believe it - I remember middle school! No way all that awfulness can be blamed on the administration. (A lot of it can, though.)

[redbird]

Right. I hadn't connected that.