I watched a girl do the whole pull-the-stool-out-from-underneath-her-friend manuever at the girl’s school yesterday. Yikes…I haven’t seen that trick done effectively in years…her poor friend was completely oblivious and her face was written with utter shock when she plunged to the floor. How totally embarressing, I thought, even in a private all-girls school seventh grade is still a bitch.

Last week I asked the girls what sort of stereotypes people have about their age, gender, etc. They had so much to say, it was really interesting. One girl said, “People think if you’re thirteen you’re super giggly and girly and that all you care about is boys…” Another girl said, “I’ll tell you the truth, going to an all-girl school, people think we’re all gay.” And yet another girl said, “Sometimes my friends say that going to this school will make me white, you know, make me act like someone I’m not…which is stupid.”