"a petri dish where maniacs with misfiring but wildly explosive hormones are constantly colliding with one another despite lacking even the most fundamental tools to handle those constant collisions: It’s like putting 50 wolverines in an escape room and giving them all speed."
So much truth here. And ranking near the top is the cruel and stupid decision by school districts blue, red, and fuchsia to put 6th grade woodchucks in middle schools with wolverines and otters.
Clearly the people responsible have blocked out those years in their own experience.
As a parent of now 31 and 33 yo men, it never stops. The cycles vary and are no longer annual, but that first day of school feeling never leaves.
stop making me cryyyyy.
but also, this is so painfully accurate:
"a petri dish where maniacs with misfiring but wildly explosive hormones are constantly colliding with one another despite lacking even the most fundamental tools to handle those constant collisions: It’s like putting 50 wolverines in an escape room and giving them all speed."
So much truth here. And ranking near the top is the cruel and stupid decision by school districts blue, red, and fuchsia to put 6th grade woodchucks in middle schools with wolverines and otters.
Clearly the people responsible have blocked out those years in their own experience.
As a parent of now 31 and 33 yo men, it never stops. The cycles vary and are no longer annual, but that first day of school feeling never leaves.
This is a great newsletter. I laughed , I teared up, I commiserated. Been there, done that.