So last week was our local high school's homecoming football game. Kids painted their bodies, people where dressed in red and gold, and there wasn't a empty seat in the house. Although school spirit was in the air, there was something else that the stadium reminded me of...
You know in the nature shows when all the animals gather together at the watering hole? I swear that is what the concession stand was like. All sorts of people gathered together at a place of consumption, while near by members of a lesser class hid in the shadows. Of course I am talking about the rambunctious sixth graders behind the bleachers.
Yes the high school caste levels are much like the great circle of life, and junior highers are like the hyena's. They are scrawny, they cackle, and many times they smell. They are scavengers in the most literal sense (at the last moment before group ends they will pounce on whatever snacks are left), but you can't blame them for it because the lions (a.k.a.high schoolers) have taken the bigger kill . The kill of course is the social experience.
Too often everything is about the senior highers, and it leaves the younger kids to entertain themselves, which makes them feel like they don't matter. So once in a while dedicate that fat juicy hippo event you have planned to the junior highers instead of the big cats. They will appreciate it and you just may become king of their pack.
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