From the Middle School Issue (Dec 2000):
News Briefs
7th Grader Pretends to Know Definition of Sexual Term
12-year-old Thomas Schwarz claimed to know the definition of a sexual term. When confronted by friends to prove this assertion, Schwarz declined, claiming that "they didn't know what it meant, and just wanted me to tell them." Through separate interviews and a quiz, it has been determined that no one knew the definition of the sexual term in question.
Emotionally Scarring Event Will Not Resurface Until Therapy
Last Thursday after P.E. class, as 7th grader Jimmy Pierson was changing from his P.E. uniform, several boys approached him in the locker room. At this point, the accounts differ, but all agree with what eventually happened. Young Jimmy Pierson was thrown out of the locker room into the school hallway with only his underwear on. When interviewed, Pierson said he was "mortified, but thank God nobody was out in the hall at the time." Pierson says that he looks forward to pushing the event into the recesses of his mind until a therapy session thirty years from now forces him to remember it. "I eagerly anticipate the day when I will remember the event and relive the fear and humiliation that I felt today. Even now I am already forgetting that this ever happened."
Bully Hurting on the Inside, But Not as Much as Victim's Outsides
According to school counselor Shawna Mills, 13-year-old bully Matthew Jaffey has "problems at home," which is the reason why he torments his younger and smaller classmates. "Matthew [Jaffey] suffers from considerable mental anguish because of his life outside of school. Starting with his parents' divorce, Matthew's actions have just been a cry for attention," declared Mills. Likewise, victim 12-year-old Adam Fritz suffers from "problems at school." Fritz's cry for attention came when he went to the school nurse, suffering from a bloody nose and bruised ribs. School nurse Elizabeth Lytle speculates that Fritz's injuries stemmed from "someone's fist slamming repeatedly into his face and body."
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