middle school

School counselor locks office after teachers and staff keep using it without permission and accessing confidential documents, sparks tension across the school: ‘It’s not a break room’

Cata Holmes

Stepdad refuses to pay for his stepchild's college at the expense of his kid's college funds: 'My wife says it’s not fair that my child will have enough money for 4 years at college and her child will not.'

Emmy Pratt

24 Nostalgia Memes Bringing Back the Best Middle School Memories

Celeste Mello

Teacher goes against admin rules, devises new system to stop misbehaving students that actually works: 'I literally can never win in admin’s eyes'

Ben Weiss

Teacher asks her middle schoolers to draw her cat after winter break exams; the results are pawsitively uplifting and wholesomely whimsical

Blake Seidel

Middle schooler gets upset with friends stealing her stuff, stepmom uses hand sanitizer prank to teach them a lesson: 'I demanded she hand over the empty bottle'

Ally Perry

8th-grade troublemaker picks on 7th-grade girl for dressing alternatively and calls her a witch, so she leans into the accusation and scares him out of his mind: ‘[He] stared at me horrified’

Lana DeGaetano

12-year-old boy's school librarian refuses to give him ‘The Hunger Games’ book because it's above his reading level, so his father buys him the series box set: ‘It broke my son's heart’

Lana DeGaetano

Substitute teacher sends kid to the principal's office for tapping her foot, her 30 classmates get even by doing the same thing until their teacher apologizes: 'Middle School is not for the weak'

Ben Weiss

Mom refuses to drive whiny 12-year-old daughter's friend Leah back home from NYC just because she's "bored" with birthday activities, the girl's mother trashes her to other moms in retaliation: ‘She just said it was boring’

Ely Bulnes

12-year-old enrolls in advanced math class, aunt demands she be removed as it makes her cousin feel insecure: 'Her son feels inferior'

Ally Perry

Stay-at-home mom reveals she does son’s English homework as he dislikes the subject, sparking conflict with her retired school-counselor mother, who fears her dismissal of his academics and college plans: 'They don't talk about college in their home'

Emma Saven

7th grader melts down over English teacher making him read a book of his choice and write an essay every month: 'This is Honors English in 2025'

Emmy Pratt

8th grader takes career aptitude test, results say he'd be fit for working in gambling: 'Bookie was never a career choice when I took these tests in high school'

Emmy Pratt

‘He was humiliated in front of other kids just so they could “make an example of him”’: Step-parent considers confronting school administration after they wrongfully ‘punish’ their 13-year-old stepson for asking a question

Lana DeGaetano

13-year-old lashes out at class clown for ruining birthday cake, dad clashes with ex-wife who demands she apologize: 'At 12 years old, she should know better'

Ally Perry