Does It Matter If Your Kid Is Popular?
Mar 22, 2022
3 minutes
by GAIL CORNWALL
In fifth grade I was cast out of my friend group—who had, to be fair, made it clear from the get-go that I wasn’t as cool as the rest of them.
I thought nothing could hurt more than that year’s insults about my being too fat for this and too fat for that, but being ignored and alone during sixth grade was worse.
Things got better when my family moved to a new town, and by high school I felt comfortable as a low-status kid, but one with friends
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