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Have year 7's always been this over-dramatic?!

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Titsywoo · 03/11/2016 20:42

I went to a private girls school so maybe I don't understand the realities of comps but DD's experience so far of year 7 has surprised me. Constant people asking each other out, having massive fall outs and not talking for weeks, lots of teasing and nasty behaviour. They have only known each other for a few weeks! I expected this when they were teens but not that she would be thrown straight in the deep end.

Feeling a bit concerned as she is getting very over whelmed by the whole thing and I don't know if or when to intervene or just hope it all settles down. She is a sweet and fairly quiet girl and is finding it hard to keep friends at this stage - her new best friend has just dumped her and unfollowed her on instagram and she has no idea why but gets shouted at if she tries to ask.

Anyone else found year 7 to be like this or have we chosen a school full of drama queens?

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FantasyAndHope · 03/11/2016 21:04

Just a heads up it doesn't get easier DD is In sixth form and it's only just settled down, but on DDs lunch table there is year7's going through dramas over Kylie lipkits and makeup.. I think it's partly down to social media why girls are bitchier because it wasn't like this when I was at school

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Titsywoo · 03/11/2016 20:59

DD is finding the girls to be drama queens but some of the boys have been really nasty too.

Maybe it's the hormones.

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Clickclickclick · 03/11/2016 20:47

Finding the same thing here. Ds is in year 7 and when he was in primary school, most of his friends were girls. Now, the girls (different ones) all mean and bitchy to him. There is always some drama as well. He is finding it quite difficult I think. Apparently the boys in his class are fine.