Am I really in the minority?

[sparky]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

fast fingers Sparky

If ever I needed another nickname....

[ryan8472]

Ha! I was only in high school last year! And I hated it too. I think when the time comes around, me and the 5 or 6 people I cared about there will have our own reunion party.

[amber]

Originally Posted by markolas

So are people who say they loved high school and living with their parents lying, retarded, on crack, or what?

I didn't like living with my parents. But the thing I liked about highschool was not so much the people and whatnot, it was getting to do/learn lots of different things in a day and not having to work. Well, I had a little job, but you know what I mean.
Now, my days are filled with one or two boring things for the most part, rather than 7 mostly interesting things. In highschool I had drama class and choir class and then drama or choir rehearsals, then also a sport to practice after school and games to go to, and then drama and choir performances to do in front of people. Or band, when younger.
And of course a different subject every hour.
You can probably see how that particular quality of highschool would be more interesting. I mean, maybe if I didn't have drama/choir/sports practices, and get to perform in front of people all the time with those, I wouldn't have liked it as much. It's fun if people watch you do stuff you are good at all the time. hee.

That's about it, though. If my life was like that now, I would think my life was just as fun. But no, it's mostly the same boring **** all day every day. Doing something different every hour is perfect for my temperament and brain.
I had some friends, and one best friend. People didn't really make fun of me or anything, to my face. I was voted most funny my senior year. But like I says, I don't really miss the social aspect. Not at all. Me and my friends didn't do drugs or drink. Well, me and my best friend did acid a few times, but otherwise, no. We would ditch to go to the river, or watch twin peaks, or just drive around. Very wholesome ****. hehehehe.

I would go to a reunion of the first highschool I attended, because those are the kids I knew my whole life growing up. Unfortunately, I graduated from a different highschool who's reunions I would not care about at all, and who I didn't know that many people. Most of the ones I like, I'm still friends with. Although switching to that highschool was really, really good for me because I had just broken up with my friends at the other highschool. And also, at my old highschool drama and choir kids were geeks, but at my new highschool they weren't, so I got into those things instead of just sports.

[irishgrl]

Dee, I just noticed that your glasses and Lilly Tomlin's glasses are very similar!
I know, totally OT.........who cares!

as for High School, I couldnt WAIT to get away, I had no use for the people I went to school with and never have and never will attend any reunions. At this point, so much time has gone by (I graduated in the mid 70's) that I've forgotten them all anyway.....

thats not to say I didnt have good times during those years, because I did, it was just with people from other schools or from my neighborhood who didnt attend my High school....actually, I think I was pretty lucky to have been a teenager in the 70's, times were pretty kick-back then, nothing as anal as what you young people have to deal with LOL!

[Miss Vicky]

Nope, don't miss those years at all. Four years of having one half of the school thinking I was a gothic-devil-worshipping-lesbian and the other thinking I was a slut who was banging every male friend I ever had (including the gay ones) were quite enough for me.

[ontheEdgeof17]

^Well, which one were you?

[Miss Vicky]

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

^Well, which one were you?

I was the virginal-bisexual-agnostic who happened to wear a lot of black t-shirts and who was neither dating nor banging any of her friends.

[markolas]

Originally Posted by sparky

I was kind of a dork, in total shutdown mode

Yeah, that was me, pretty much all through school.

My high school did not have a drama dept. There really wasn't much of an arts crowd at all. The art classes that were offered were very small, and it was mostly treated as a "blow-off" class. Everyone (except for one or two) hated the art teacher because she actually tried to teach art, which they couldn't care less about. I mean, this was the South. You either played football, were a cheerleader, or nobody knew your name.

High school was hardly the pinnacle of my life. I know it is for some people. For others, it is also the absolute low point. Either way, I don't think for anyone that the experience was without meaning. Its just up to us to figure out what that meaning is and to use it to our advantage. As they say, the unexamined life is not worth living.

It was certainly the low point for me, and I have no idea what it's meaning was, other than to show me that I really did not belong in the family or regional culture that I was born into.

Originally Posted by amber

I didn't like living with my parents. But the thing I liked about highschool was not so much the people and whatnot, it was getting to do/learn lots of different things in a day and not having to work. Well, I had a little job, but you know what I mean.

Well, that's another thing. I probably could've quit school in the 6th grade, and I'd still be about as intelligent as I am now, since I was mostly self-educated after that. It was really a ****ty school system I grew up in. My high school biology teacher, for instance, decided to not teach us about evolution because, in her words, "it's such a touchy subject." I lost all heart in school after that - I mean, the teachers were more concerned with offending their fragile little Christian sensibilities than with doing their fukcing jobs. I had no role models growing up. Only people who showed me how I *didn't* want to be.

[Johnny Stew]

I was told any number of times, "these are the best years of your life" and "you're going to miss being in high school."
I knew better though, and not even for one second in the past 17 years have I ever missed high school.

I skipped my 10th reunion, and I'm sure I'll pass on my 20th, too.
Most of the few people I was friends with, I'm still in touch with -- and I have no desire to see any of the rest. So there's no need to attend class reunions.

[CelticGypsy]

I loved high school. Of course, I went back during the times we had classes in caves No, it was 1972-1976 and I miss high school because it was alot of fun. If you are active in alot of school clubs and sport and usually best if you lived in one place as a kid so you would know most of the kids in your high school is best.

Unfortunately, my kids had to move around alot growing up and my girls made friends much easier than my son. He still has problems making friends and I think alot of young men are this way. Girls seem to have an easier time and need those friendships in their lives. Boys need them too but sometimes not willing to take the time to form relationships.

If you are friendly to everyone, then you will have an easier time. I was pretty shy but still managed to have about 10 good friends that remained in my life up through my 20's and about four of them are still good friends today and I just recently turned 50. I see alot of kids in school today that are so busy with their cell phones that they don't actually talk face to face with people anymore. Unfortunately, the Internet and cell phones and other gadgets make personal relationships less personal today.

[amber]

Originally Posted by markolas

Well, that's another thing. I probably could've quit school in the 6th grade, and I'd still be about as intelligent as I am now, since I was mostly self-educated after that. It was really a ****ty school system I grew up in. My high school biology teacher, for instance, decided to not teach us about evolution because, in her words, "it's such a touchy subject." I lost all heart in school after that - I mean, the teachers were more concerned with offending their fragile little Christian sensibilities than with doing their fukcing jobs. I had no role models growing up. Only people who showed me how I *didn't* want to be.

Oh, that sucks. I was in a very good school system. In fact, it sounds like your school sucked in general. That is too bad, because highschool can be fun. Or at least informative.

Hmm...this one time me and my friend wanted to do a short play that intimated an affair. Well, said there was an affair, and there was a bit of a problem with that, but in the end, we got to do it.

[Johnny Stew]

I should add that I've sometimes thought that if I had the attitude I have now, back then, I might have actually liked high school.
I put up with a lot of **** and kept my mouth shut through a lot of harrassment and abuse. But nowadays, I have a big mouth and I don't take **** from anyone.

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by markolas

Yeah, that was me, pretty much all through school.

you and I are so much alike. the South sure is something. especially the deep, Delta South.

I was different only in the respect that even though I wasn't a footballer or cheerleader (crazy, right? ) I was still part of the "in-crowd" and had lots of friends and all that. it still didn't make high school anything I really care to remember. I was a total bitch to poor people and people that didn't "fit in" and I do regret that. I often wonder what happend to Jerry R. or Pam N. - do they sit and think of the hateful things I did? I hope not.

I tutored a couple black footballers and after one lesson, they said "now blow me" or something to that effect. I got the tongue through the fingers action a lot in the hall. and a lot of shouting from school buses. even though I was popular. so, I wasn't exempt. I still see those faces of the kids that did that to me and I loathe them. to this day. but, then I turned around and did the same thing to some kids. karma's a bitch. but, I've changed. or at least, I'm trying to change. :P

[markolas]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

I was told any number of times, "these are the best years of your life" and "you're going to miss being in high school."

I was told the same thing, over and over. I feel sorry for those people. I mean, *those* were the best years of my life, even though I'll probably live another *70* years??

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by markolas

It was certainly the low point for me, and I have no idea what it's meaning was, other than to show me that I really did not belong in the family or regional culture that I was born into.

i think that is meaning enough. isn't it a blessing that you figured out that in order to be happy, you had to move somewhere else? i mean, you could have just stayed there and killed yourself.