Strange Things They Do, Part 1

6th graders really are a strange bunch. I know it has to do somewhat with where they are in their life's journey. They are trying so hard to be adult, but they really are still children, and many of the little things they do highlight the war between the adult they want to be and the kid they still are. Sometimes it makes for misbehavior. Sometimes for humor. Many times it just results in stuff that makes the real adults around them go, "huh?"

One such event happens whenever it rains. Now, maybe I could understand this if I lived somewhere it doesn't rain very often. Somewhere nice and dry, where rain is more of a phenomenon. It's not here. It's rained here every day for the past two weeks in fact. So these kids know rain.

The second it starts to rain, the students must walk through the rain to get to their class. Even though there is a lovely overhang to protect them. Even though they are going to freeze when they get to class, because of the lovely air conditioner, which I cannot, and would not, anyway, turn off because they are cold.

If you're thinking this is limited to the boys, you'd be wrong. The girls do it too, even the prissy ones. What takes over their brains in the rain?

We may never know.