All these photographs are irrelevant, because, all musicians are children, to some extent. Which is what makes them so vital, and necessary.
You're the type of poster that I classify as "the philosopher." Which is what makes you so vital, and necessary.
I don't know, but it's amazing how most of those kids - who were what, 13 or 14 at the time? - look like they're in their 40s!
If it had been "Middle School" that would be right, but if it's "Junior High" it's a year older, 14 or 15. Middle is normally 6-8, Junior is 7-9.
Depends completely on where you are - and can vary even within the same school system! Where I work, some middle schools are 6-8, some are 7-8. This means some elementary schools are K-5 and some are K-6. I don't know if the system plans to make MS uniformly 6-8 eventually and they're just taking their sweet time, but it's a weird mish-mash right now. Anyway, whatever grade those kids in the pic were, they still look radically older than 13 or 14 or 15!
Definitely - especially the girls. Good God, they couldn't look frumpier if they tried! I assume the female in the front row center is the teacher, but the girls in the class look so old that it's next to impossible to tell the age difference!
The exception proves the rule! It's two different educational concepts with the middle school being in vogue over the last half century or so. Are students literally "junior" high schoolers, or are they transitioning gradually from elementary instruction to high school instruction. Going from concept to reality is easier said than done as your example illustrates. I expect them looking older probably has something to do with the starkness of black and white photography and the way they are dressed, basically like adults rather than teens. Forgive my response. I taught 8th graders for over 3 decades. The "middle school" years in education were always treated as the "redheaded step-child" of public education.
And I've been in education since 1993, with 15 years at a middle school! Back then, all the county's middle schools were just 7-8. As I mentioned, they're going 6-8 for a lot of them now. Oh, we also have a small handful of "academics" that are K-8, but very few. FWIW, I went to "intermediate school" - that's what they called it where I was. 7th and 8th, but with a twist: 7-12 were all in one gigantic building, but divvied up into "subschools", which were separate parts of the huge facility. 7/8 were Subschools 1 and 2, 9/10 were SS 3 and 4, and 11/12 were SS 5 and 6. We all used the same gym, cafeteria, etc., but they spaced out the day so you didn't have 12-year-olds hanging around 17-year-olds...
Ok l am game and do not mind making a fool of myself- 8th from the left in the back row..... is it Freddie Mercury?
I reckon this has to be USA not UK, so Freddie and Pete are eliminated My own guess is Jonathan Richman, fourth from left, centre row. On the other hand, I suspect that we are all wrong and it’s a female. In which case, I opt for Rickie Lee Jones. Fifth from left in the front row.
