Jarvis Clutch Chapter 2 – Personal Connection
After reading chapter 2 . . .
Identify something that Jarvis observed about kids in his school that you found interesting. How does it relate to the social scene at LREI? In responding, don’t talk about specific individuals or incidents at LREI, but try to get at the underlying idea (e.g., instead of saying, “I remember when X . . .” try “sometimes a person can think that . . . .”
Feel free (in fact it is encouraged) to respond to someone who has posted before you. If you agree, explain why and see if you can take the idea deeper. If you disagree, explain why and offer your view on things. Whether you agree or disagree, respond respectfully and thoughtfully.
If you are responding to a classmate, click on the reply link in their comment so that your reply is connected to their comment.
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One of the things that was similar to LREI is our lunch period. Everyone try’s to sit next to someone they are really good friends with. But it’s not sitting at a table with JUST the people you hang out with a lot or is your best friend, but also some other people who you normally don’t get a chance to talk to, or you just don’t have much in common.
I agree with Nina. I know that at the beginning of the week when we have new seats everyone races to sit next to their best friend.
Sometimes there’s a table with no girls or a table with no boys, or both. I think this usually happens, and when a boy has to sit at an all girls table or vise versa, they are annoyed, or they think they’ll have a really boring time, or they don’t mind.
I totally agree with that. Sometimes the tables are separated out like girls and boys. But at those table the people are separated at those tables like: best friends, people that play sports together etc. Think that some people wouldn’t mind sitting at a all girls table or all boys table, but they are afraid like Nina said they won’t have fun.
I agree with Nina. I think that boys and girls don’t realize that being with the opposite gender isn’t so bad. Sure, boys and girls have different interests, but we all have things in common. You shouldn’t just assume that since you’re not the same gender, you don’t share interests. I’ve found that some of the funniest most enjoyable conversations I’ve had have been at a tables were I was the only girl.
I really agree with Nina. They understand that we are the same but it different ways. We are both humans but just not the same gender. like Rachel said we all have different interest. But even girls are different than other girls. and boys are different than other boys!
I agree with Nina because on Mondays, I tried to sit down and someone said, “I am saving this seat for my best friend.” And 2 or 3 people always sit next to each other but it is a good experience to sit next to someone who you don’t normally sit next to or someone who you don’t know very well yet.
I have the same experience sometimes as well.
I don’t get the point in saving a seat unless it’s mandatory that you sit next to that person. I think it’s a good idea to get to know someone even more by sitting next to them for two weeks at lunch every day so you can get to know someone better.
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I agree, I think that when lunch starts, you should just choose the seat, not the people near the seat. Besides, lunch is just one period out of many. If you aren’t happy with the people you sit with, you can always hang out with your friends at recess or whenever you have free time.
I the same thing that happened to Gwen, happens to me all the time. I try to sit down but someone always comes to me and says “You can’t sit here,_______ is sitting here.” It gets kind of annoying because sometimes I can see the person sitting somewhere else. I want to sit near a friend but they won’t let me do it because they think that they can save a spot for someone that isn’t even sitting there.
I agree. I think that Lrei is a really diverse school and that’s what I love about it.
I agree with Nina. In the beginning of the week I always try to be the last person to sit down so I can observe who sits with who and when that happens I can always see the groups, and then I usually sit with the people who don’t have as many friends to sometime help them and see what’s going on.
I agree with Nina about everyone racing to sitting next to each other, but I also think that even if we don’t make it in time, I think that we still all have fun no matter who we are sitting next to. In other schools (like Jarvis’s) maybe people wouldn’t be as easy going and not be okay about not sitting next to their closer friends.
I agree with Nina about the sitting with friends at lunch because I rush in to sit next to my friends and I should sit next to people I don’t usually sit next to.
I think that LREI lunch is good because nobody ever tells anyone that they have to go to a different table or seat.
I think that lunch at lrei is good because every two weeks you change seats. This means you can be sitting with everyone. While it may be nice to sit next to a close friend, Making new friend ships is always important. I think the best place to make a new friend at lrei is at lunch.
I agree with Nina because at the start of every week, we can see that the groups of friends always sit together. Another comparison is that there are usually always boy girl tables.
I think that something interesting in the book is “politics of being a kid” because it talks about how sometimes kids try to kiss up to a teacher to get good grades or something like that. I think it sort of relates to LREI because sometimes people might want to be nice to someone for their friendship even though they might not really like that person. But being nice to that person would make that person like them so they would feel more popular.
I agree with Georgia because it’s interesting how in the book it says that some kids might act a certain way to be liked, or kisses up to a teacher for good grades. It does relate to maybe most schools also because kids just want to be nice for friendship yes, and maybe if that other person was acting in a certain mean way someone could be the better person and convince them to be nicer.
I agree. sometimes people are nice to other people even if they do not really care. This sometimes allwowsn them to do things they did not do before
Also, that person might be getting something out of that fake relationship.
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I agree with Georgia in a sense that some kids try to act good depending on how important something is or is not. I think that when people try to do something good for olympic points it is just something that kids should do without a reason. When they try to tell people “Now will you give me olympic points?” It is not something that you should ask for knowing that you got points.
I agree with Cate and Rachel. Boys think oh I have to work with a girl and the other way around. Do you know the expression “it’s a small world”? You might not realize that a girl likes snowboarding for example and a boy likes snowboarding. Bam you have something in common! I think that sometimes it’s a stereotype.
I disagree with nina because I think that in his school there are the nerds the populars in lrei I feel like thats not true theres no nerds or popular kids but there is groups.
I agree to the idea that their are no nerds in our school, but popular kids isn’t true in my opion. I feel like there is popularity everywhere. If you think about it, popular kids are just kids people want to around. Every PLACE has some of those.
I completely agree. I’m so glad no one is mean just to be liked! 🙂
Not true i think that there are some people that are popular and some unpopular and some nerds
I think that there are some people that are more popular than others, but there are no Rejects or people who get bullied like in the book.
Agreed
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Although I never said that anyone is a nerd or is popular, but I do agree that there isn’t any popular or nerdy groups, but there are groups, just that the groups are more open to everyone joining in.
I agree because everyone just is their selves and there maybe are groups but no titles really at LREI.
I think that in lrei there is who likes who and there is rumors starting to spread like this and this went out but not as crazy as his school.
I agree with Mika. I don’t think that anyone who has good social cognition is mean or bullies to keep their place (not saying that anyone is popular).
Like Nina and Mika said, LREI is a lot different than Jarvis’ school. Who likes who might be something that goes on at LREI, but no one (in our grade, there might be boyfriends and girlfriends in 7th and 8th grade) has a boyfriend or girlfriend. Going back to popularity, there are no visible groups at our school (in my opinion), so it is hard to compare our social life to the social life of kids in Eastern middle school.
I agree With this comment. Lrei isn’t as crazy
I totally agree. Once and a while someone might start telling secrets
and it get crazy just like Jarvis Clutches school
I also agree with Nina. I see similarities with Jarvis and what we all experience at lunch time at LREI. It can be intimidating to sit alone or with kids you don’t know. The greatest feeling is when you feel comfortable at school.
I agree with Nina and Mika at the same time. I think that the lunch period part was similar to LREI and fairly different too. Like Nina said, people automatically try to sit with people they mainly feel comfortable with, but they also get the chance to sit with people they don’t have a chance to normally talk to. Also, like Mika said, there aren’t any ‘nerds’ or ‘popular’ people. There are people that have different strengths than other people and people that have a few more friends, but there are no obvious groups. Sadye also made a good point too. It can be intimidating being with people that aren’t particularly your friends.
I agree with Nina because at lunch it really shows all the groups of kids, but what I think is a little bit different then Jarvis’s school is that it is a lot easier to move around and also the groups change every 2 weeks.
I think at lunch it is like lrei because me and my friends try to be at lunch together and when we’re not we get sad.
We usually run to lunch when the seats change.
I agree with Luke. Are school is very special and different. At most schools kids would get really mad but here no one cares.
Some kids o=in older grades I hear talking about people behind their back
Yeah. In 5th grade, people were getting up JUST to talk to one another about a gossip thing about someone. It was really mean. A lot of people got hurt JUST because people were gossiping about others behind their back, or maybe not secretly at all. I don’t think that the people who were being gossiped about were very pleased at the idea of people making ‘mean talk’ with others about that/those people.
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I agree with many people.
At lrei there aren’t really, people that worry about “popularity”
Well, not as much as Jarvis’s school.
I think LREI has a connection with the seats at lunch because we all rush to try to sit next to are friend but there are people that you probably don’t talk to much to.
I agree with Yannik because it’s true we all rush to be with our friends but were with them the whole day and you can make new friends too.
I agree with Yannik and Nina, even though it is a bad habit, I admit I rush to sit next to my friends at recess. It is a bad habit but I can’t stop it really.
One of the questions say ” What would make you want to be part of a group.” I think that the question doesn’t relate to our school because everyone is in one big group. Also every one is so friendly.
I think something different with our school from Jarvis’s school is that some people do extreme things do be popular. UNLIKE our school is that in school during lunch, people are always saving seats so a particular person will sit next to them.
A difference between his school and ours is that we don’t really have permeate groups because every day or evan every class people are in a different group but in jar vises school there are groups for the popular and the unpopular or a little like that.
I feel like I don’t really have a connection because this school doesn’t really have this problem because we don’t have these groups in our school. But the only one I have is some times spying on my parents.
I think that kids in our school are not as clearly popular as they are in Jarvis’s school. But in our school there are different types including popular and liked and disliked and despised. But in our school it is just hard to tell what you are because most kids are very nice. We do not have kids who are mean to be liked so that makes me happy.