'Course, we could imagine middle schoolers getting into all sorts of trouble if one of these floated into the locker room.

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CNN's "AC360" received statements from two of the accused middle schoolers and the father of a third student apologizing for their behavior.

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The rest of the language is just color and punctuation, like most profanity, and few middle schoolers today are likely to be wounded by it.

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It can be used to resolve a fight among middle schoolers over locker space as effectively as it can be used to resolve border disputes among nations.

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Two buses away, in one packed with Japanese middle schoolers in blue uniforms, a boy was pulling the hair and beating the head of another pudgier boy seated ahead.

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Mitt Romney wants to give laptop computers to all Massachusetts's high-schoolers and middle-schoolers.

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Honestly, could they really not foresee that middle-schoolers would seize any opportunity to chant about their balls?

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In addition to six performances at NYSCI, Maker Space was the site of a three-week education program that introduced 60 Queens middle-schoolers to the fundamentals of music composition through the use of iPads, Lemurs and other digital music-making tools.

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In the middle of the prior decade, NBA players and owners, amid concern over the flight of high schoolers directly into the pros, changed its eligibility requirements so that a player had to be 19 years of age in the calendar year of the draft and a year removed from high school graduation.

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