Navigating Middle School Social Situations

You see a new student sitting alone during lunch. What do you do?

• Invite them to sit with you and your friends.

• Ignore them because you're too shy to talk to new people.

• Tell a teacher that the new student is sitting alone.

• Make a joke about them sitting alone to your friends.

Your friend is spreading a rumor about another student. What is your response?

• Help spread the rumor because it's about someone you don't like.

• Confront your friend and tell them to stop spreading the rumor.

• Ignore the situation.

• Tell a teacher about the rumor.

You're being pressured to skip class by a group of friends. What do you do?

• Skip class because you want to fit in.

• Politely decline and go to class.

• Tell them you'll think about it and then go to class.

• Agree to skip but then secretly go to class.

A friend posts an embarrassing photo of you on social media without asking. How do you handle it?

• Publicly comment, demanding they take it down.

• Privately message them asking to remove the photo.

• Report the photo to the social media platform.

• Ignore it because you don't want to cause drama.

You witness someone being bullied in the hallway. What is your course of action?

• Join in because you don't want to be targeted next.

• Stand up for the person being bullied.

• Walk away and pretend you didn't see anything.

• Tell a teacher or school counselor about the incident.

Your best friend tells you a secret and makes you promise not to tell anyone. Later, another friend asks you about it. How do you respond?

• Tell them because you don't want to lie.

• Say you don't know anything about it.

• Change the subject to avoid answering.

• Explain that you can't share someone else's secret.

You're working on a group project and one member isn't contributing. What do you do?

• Do their part of the work to avoid conflict.

• Talk to them about their lack of contribution.

• Tell the teacher about the situation.

• Encourage them to participate by assigning tasks they might enjoy.

A friend is upset because they weren't invited to a party. How do you comfort them?

• Tell them the party probably wasn't fun anyway.

• Listen to their feelings and offer support.

• Suggest doing something fun together.

• Convince them to confront the person who didn't invite them.

You overhear a plan to cheat on an upcoming test. What do you do?

• Join in because you're worried about your grade.

• Try to convince them not to cheat.

• Ignore it and study on your own.

• Inform a teacher about the cheating plan.

Your group of friends starts making fun of another student's appearance. How do you react?

• Laugh along to fit in.

• Say nothing and feel uncomfortable.

• Ask them to stop because it's not kind.

• Change the subject to divert attention away from making fun.