Chances are, you're going to be utterly charmed by these kids when you sign up to volunteer with WriterCoach Connection. No one knows that better than Longfellow Middle School WCC site co-coordinator Annie Stine, who, with other veteran WCC coaches, site coordinators, board, and staff members, have been helping Berkeley Unified School District personnel score writing assessment essays. Several such sessions have taken place over the past two weeks, and Annie provides some excerpts from seventh-grade essays. Students were asked to compare and contrast the elementary and middle school experience, and here's what some of them said:
- Many people think that being yourself would be the key to easy learning, but in reality, getting carried away trying to find who you are as a person really can be a learning distraction.
- I liked
elementary better because it was easier and I liked naps.
- After the bully
or be-bullied stage there is the crush stage where everyone has crushes then
after that is beyond my 7th-grade knowledge.
- To tell you the
truth, I never liked elementary school. It was just so boring and one ugly
teacher to look at all day wasn't fun.
- If there was peer pressure in elementary school it would be about lunch boxes.
- Middle school
does have better learning utensils.
- In addition, some people may argue that middle school is boring and elementary is not but I think that they both are fun and can be boring at times people think that school is just simply boring but I think that it is both fun and boring.
- Many would say
it's part of growing up but when you have to stay up until 10:00 making clay
Homo Erectness then have to still do your math homework then try telling me
middle school is not hard.
- In elementary
school you hear "Can I have a chip please?" In middle school,
"Give me a f___in' chip!!!"
- In the end, life will always turn out either good or bad. And life is pretty long, it's the longest thing that we'll ever know.
Amen.