Meaning of junior high schooler | Babel Free

Definitions

A student at a school that includes grades 6, 7 and 8; a preadolescent.

US

Examples

“Some San Diego County junior high schoolers, particularly girls, had little sympathy for the former basketball great.”

“Act your age. I'm perfectly willing to walk a junior high schooler through the differences between reporters, columnists and editors. But I'm likely to show my impatience with a college student who doesn't know the difference between fact and opinion.”

“Overall, the story of junior high schoolers and middle schoolers in America offers up a perfect illustration of what social scientists call a “self-fulfilling prophecy effect”: Adults regarded the youngest teens and tweens with distrust and distaste, and the kids gave them their worst.”

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