Heart of the City by Steenz for September 13, 2018
September 12, 2018
September 14, 2018
Transcript:
mom: So is somebody all excited about her first day of middle school? Heart: Yeah. I guess. I don't know. mostly, I think I'm scared. mom: Scared? Really? Of what? Heart: don't you ever read my blog posts? Mom: Oh. yeah. uh...I guess I missed the last few...
So Heart is moving from 7 or 8 years old to 11 years old (6th grade). The cartoonist is going to have to jettison all his Santa Claus-related stories. (In actuality, even 7-year-olds generally don’t believe in Santa Claus.) In the district I went to, they called it Junior High, and it was 7th, 8th, and 9th grade. That actually made it worse, I think. The kids ranged from 12 to 15 years old (because they let a lot of kids wait about starting 1st grade until they were 7 years old).