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How Did You Know That Middle Schoolers Needed to Be Protected?
You say in the book that pubescant kids were thought of as so sensitive and vulnerable that they needed their own protected spaces. Yet, other people's middle schoolers very often are really viewed as a threat of all kinds of contagion,. You hear all the same fears over and over again about what music they're going to be listening to or how technology will affect them. And by the 19 thirties, it was a real problem. Mothers were asking for help.