junior high

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But Burke allegedly drove to Lake Elsinore and paid a junior high school student $1,000 to give her a new phone so they could stay in touch, according to the document filed Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

“We will all bow out someday but hopefully not anytime soon,” added Art, a friend since junior high who’s the Mexiclan’s resident Aristotle.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

And then he talked about Greenland, teasing his remarks as if he were standing on a junior high school stage introducing an eighth-grade production of “We’re No Angels.”

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

In junior high, humor became a way to avoid being beaten up—and the best way to get a girl to talk to me.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

In junior high school, I became good pals with the truancy officer in the area.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King