Surprised

Class meetings take place once a month. The sixth grade counselor comes in to lead the class. Students are given the opportunity to ask questions about middle school and air any concerns/frustrations they're experiencing. This month the counselor began the meeting by asking each student to share a high and low of their life in middle school so far.

I was happy to hear that the kids felt like they were making new friends and that the teachers were pretty nice. There were the expected comments regarding homework load and a few unfortunate comments about problems with bullies. But the most surprising comment I heard all day came from the mouth of a young redhead. When asked to give a high for his year so far he commented, "The food in the cafeteria is amazing!"

Not what I expected.