THE MIDDLE SCHOOL BOOM NEWER MODEL REPLACING JUNIOR HIGH AS NUMBER OF 10- TO 14-YEAR-OLDS HITS HIGHEST LEVEL IN 20 YEARS

From: The Boston Globe | Date: November 28, 1999| Author: Sean Smith, Globe Correspondent | Copyright information

It was the kind of event that tries a middle school principal's soul. Two honor roll students who stayed after school for their drama club practice fail to turn up at home.

After a flurry of frantic phone calls, school officials and the students' families eventually find out that practice had been canceled that afternoon - and that the students, instead of going home, had hopped a bus to downtown Boston for a lark.

"Like it or not, you can never assume that kids this age are alwa...

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