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Originally posted by badmunchkin
hmmm, that wasn't my high school experience. Everyone at my HS was pretty much a walking stereotype. Maybe 'cuz I went to high school in Florida. They do say shit flows south.
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hey don't get me wrong, if you wanted to do a "breakfast club" you could have picked out a stereotypical dumb jock, a stereotypical geek a stereotypical stoner etc. but only by specifically picking out 5 or 6 individuals from a year of 250 students in a 1200 school, not 5 or 6 random people. Randomly you'd get a half dozen average kids in uniform and wouldn't really be able to tell anything from talking or looking at them, except gauging by size and fitness for "jock" and long hair for "stoner" Then the stereotypical dumb jock would go back to his group of 10 mates, some of which are in the top classes, some of them smoke dope, some of them play in a band, some of them surf, some of them paint, some play computer games etc etc.
I guess in the region I grew up in there were a lot of drugs, so although there were specific "stoners" most everyone took drugs, to the point where there were "geek stoners" - one of the guys that topped australia in physics at the end of highschool took mushrooms and smoked pot to relax for exams. The guys that played D&D were the same guys that played in bands and took hard drugs. So that may have been a levelling agent, also it was a small coastal town public school, not a private city college so the main areas of entertainment were drugs or physical activity of which surfing melded with anyone that did any kind of phsyical activity and drugs melded with anyone that surfed
Also with the whole school uniform thing, I guess it takes some of the segregating apect out of things, it's not like people are wearing a "WWJD?" tshirt when they walk over to talk to a goth in school uniform.
If you were "different" (and therefore a fruit
) there was general condemnation/ignoring but no physical picking on or anything. "Jocks" in years above or years below (probably moreso as their ranks thin after year 10 when a lot leave to become tradies) might have stirred some verbal shit, but no fights just grunting herd instinct bullshit. There was definately a pressure not to stand out, but in uniform it's hard to have a "trenchcoat mafia".