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Direct linkBarnes, Peter – Teaching Pre K-8, 2005
Social cliques start around fourth or fifth grade and get worse through middle school and beyond. The cool vs. the uncool. Nerds, jocks, popular kids and outsiders--students are categorized by their peers and excluded by those different from them. Students who are not part of the "cool" crowd feel isolated and lonely and are often subjected to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Social Isolation, Middle School Students, Early Adolescents
