> Being with mostly the same 20-750 kids (depending on school size) in your grade for most of your growing up seems cruel. You're going to change a lot, but the

> Being with mostly the same 20-750 kids (depending on school size) in your grade for most of your growing up seems cruel. You're going to change a lot, but the social dynamics can only evolve so much. The lack of ability to reinvent yourself, to re-find place is starkly different than the rest of the world, where that activity & the newness of other people is perpetual. It is also cruel to do the opposite, perhaps more cruel. Honestly, I think "reinvention" is overvalued/oversold in contemporary culture, and I'd reckon most kids (and adults) would be better served by maintaining their existing friendships and social patterns instead of forcing a change for change's sake.