Is Seventh Grade The Worst Year?
Is Seventh Grade The Worst Year? “Seventh grade really is the worst year ever,” agrees Jennifer Powell-Lunder, a psychologist at Pace University who specializes in tween development. Once self-assured, happy kids become encumbered by new feelings of embarrassment, isolation, depression, and, for girls in particular, a loss of self-esteem. Is 7th grade a hard year?