Wow! It's already almost the end of the quarter! We get report cards this week. We are reading The Wave in Language Arts right now. It is based on the true story of a school in California. There was a teacher who decided to create a social experiment to show his skeptical students how people can fall easily into a movement like the Nazi Party. However, things end up getting carried away. It's interesting. I mean, the way it relates to our school and how my peers think it relates to our school. Most are uninterested and probably won't read the book. Some will read the book, but think of it as some other world. Isn't that ironic, seeing as the book is about kids who don't see connections between past and present. Of course, there are some that will see those connections. They are the ones that keep me sane. It drives me nuts how closed off middle-schoolers are and how hard it is to get us to focus and take anything seriously. It isn't that middle-schoolers can't. Find an excited, engaging teacher to talk to kids about their lives and other's and people will pay attention. Maybe not all the time, but at least for a while. And that's better than letting kids live in their own little bubble of middle-school drama.