He said, She said

The arguments heard in middle school are weirder than most.

Some can be quite normal. These range from which drinking fountain has the best water to who is the best/worst teacher. These can be very interesting if say someone's favorite teacher is someone else's least favorite or that the drinking water used in Chef School is cloudy and white looking.

Food pronunciation seems to be a very popular topic among middle school arguments. Interestingly though none have been about the pronunciation of tomato or potato. Ones that have been heard range from tortillas to bagels. The funniest case was with the word syrup. One kid interrupted the whole class, to put the pronunciation to a vote. Food pronunciation can provide many arguments.

Now come the ones that don't make much sense. Once in math we had a argument about if the sun would come up tomorrow. Sure in a couple billion of years the sun will burn out, but tomorrow people. Go get a science journal.

The weirdest argument this year -- if it can really rain cats and dogs. Incidentally this also happened in math class. How this has anything to do with math, I don't know. People kept arguing that tornadoes can make it rain cats and dogs. Others insisted that cats and dogs just don't rain down from the sky.

He said, she said. Feel free to weigh in on the arguments above. Middle school verbal fights can go from normal to just plain bizarre.