Navigating Middle School Without Filters
Eighth Grade “A lot can happen over a year, you could come back next fall as a completely normal person.” — Molly Ringwald to Anthony Michael Hall in “Sixteen Candles” 1984 Eighth Grade is this generation’s Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, and Welcome To The Dollhouse. If you’ve wondered what adolescence in the digital age is like, this movie’s strength is in capturing Generation Z middle school life – while remaining universal. Elsie Fisher plays eighth grader Kayla and it’