[jyl]

Oh BTW, middle school seems to really suck for many girls. The nasty, cliquey, whispering, knife-bearing aspect of the fairer sex bursts forth. I'm not sure it gets better in high school.

My daughter did not particularly like middle school. One thing she learned was a keen assessment of the character of people, and a determination to associate only with people that she determines to be "genuinely good" people, regardless of their popularity or otherwise.

Some form of that would be an important lesson for her to learn from this.