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Yeah, I'm also going to have to say it depends on context: who are the kids involved, what are they like, etc. I've been teaching for several years, and I can vouch for the fact that there is absolutely no predicting maturity level by chronological age. The high schoolers I teach range from more together than some of their teachers to "who let you off the playground?"
Granted, you don't get junior high kids who are that together very often, but it happens, and it probably happens more often than we think.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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