Middle school is bad just about everywhere, not just in the US. All the teachers I've talked with (mostly in Europe) also observed the same thing. Keeping kids

Middle school is bad just about everywhere, not just in the US. All the teachers I've talked with (mostly in Europe) also observed the same thing. Keeping kids in school at that age is just a bad idea, and if anything that's what should be abolished completely. High school in Europe, where there's no extracurricular activities added into the mix, is mostly fine, and kids that have a bad time there are usually just carrying mental scars from middle school.