I've been where both those lads are -- I attended five different schools between the ages of 6 and 12, because my stepfather's jobs had my parents moving so often. It's terribly, terribly hard to make friends, especially since the schools here tend to track a set of students together (put them in the same classroom year after year.) Even if you come into the school at the start of the year, the rest of the kids have been together since they were five or six years old -- some of them even earlier if their parents are friends or if they have older siblings going through school together -- and there's really no way for a new student to fit in unless they're incredibly charismatic.
At least K will be in a familiar setting, even if he's still without a set of friends. A, poor guy... a new school every year, and no guarantee of another K waiting for him at the next one.
While we don't do that, here; students are regularly mixed up among difference classes and we frequently have classes of composite grades, kids still know each other from having been at the same school, whereas K was in Japan before.
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At least K will be in a familiar setting, even if he's still without a set of friends. A, poor guy... a new school every year, and no guarantee of another K waiting for him at the next one.
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While we don't do that, here; students are regularly mixed up among difference classes and we frequently have classes of composite grades, kids still know each other from having been at the same school, whereas K was in Japan before.
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