School Girl Courage - Test

Because that, in the hidden curriculum of girlhood, is the only test that ever mattered.

The test is this: Can you remain whole when the world is trying to convince you that you are too much, or not enough? school girl courage test

The schoolyard will eventually end. The queen bees will lose their thrones. The cliques will dissolve into the blur of graduation. But the scars of those tests—or the strength forged in refusing them—will remain. Because that, in the hidden curriculum of girlhood,

In the end, the "school girl courage test" is not really about courage at all. It is about survival. And the truest measure of a girl is not whether she passed the test according to the group’s cruel rubric—but whether she came out the other side still able to be gentle. Still able to look the next girl in the eye and say, quietly, "You can sit with me." The queen bees will lose their thrones