Anyone 'social' in high school

Nope not me ( although I played cello in the school orchestra)... but my daughter played the lead in all the school plays because she could play several instruments.. also she was star hockey player, and swimmer.. and gold medallist Majorette to which she was featured in the local paper.. ( she was only 8 years old at the time )
 
In high school, I did little more than attend classes and party. I didn't get great grades either. But in college, I graduated with a 3.98 GPA, tutored other CompSci students and participated in a couple of study groups. To me, high school was a complete waste, but it seemed as if college was more "real" and connected to the rest of my life in important ways. I seem to need a reason to do things, and in high school, but I couldn't find that. My sense is that I needed to grow up a bit more, and did so between high school and college, since one did not immediately follow the other for me.

Edit: I forgot that I did play trumpet in the high school marching band.

Tony
 
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tbeltrans said:
Well, there were something like 5,000 kids in our school, so I was but one of many. Good grief, think of all those wild kids scattering to all parts of the country and what impact they have today. o_O

I never gave that much thought prior to this post, but now it all is making sense. :unsure:

Tony
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5000 students? Wow!

I don't remember the attendance at my high school, but I'm guessing maybe 1/5 of that of yours.
 
Aunt Marg said:
5000 students? Wow!

I don't remember the attendance at my high school, but I'm guessing maybe 1/5 of that of yours.
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The second largest school in our school system was Hollywood, and I think they had maybe half what we did.

Anyway, forget the "damn" Democrats, the "damn" Republicans, the white power people, the Black power people, the snowflakes, the wokers, and whatever groups we slap labels on...it was all of us, the big wild bunch. o_O

In reality, I was rather tame in high school. The jocks drank at parties, while the rest of us just smoked weed. There were always fights and crazy shenanigans among the drinking crowd, while the weed crowd just sat around listening to music, eating Twinkies and pro-creating. :cool:

Tony
 
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I was somewhat of a fairly good child in high school. I never did drugs, I never drank with friends but my family did allow me to try wine and drink champagne when they celebrated but those were the only times I drank. I had a small group of close friends who I did most things with. During my junior and senior years we lived behind the high school so my friends and I would go to my place to shoot pool during lunch. Other times I'd hang out with the folks who hung out in the physics classroom or the computer classroom. I'd also spend afternoons after school in the computer lab.

I never went to any dances. I went to one football game, but our house overlooked the track and football field so I could see home games from home. But this is California and high school is much less important than it is in most of the rest of the country so if there were more than 100 people watching the game it was a big crowd.

The only social things I did in high school was to go on some senior trips. I went on a river rafting trip with about 30 other kids. I also went to the senior night at Disneyland 400 miles away from us. In addition I sent to grad night at the local bowling alley. The main reason I started doing things is I had a social psychology class where we had to get to know each other and suddenly I knew more folks in high school than I had ever known before.
 
I was in the high school band and orchestra. Also the drama club and debating society all of which kept me pretty busy. We had dances every week which rotated between the towns in the area for teenagers and had a great time at them. Lots of parties in those days as my parents had finished our basement for just that purpose and could keep an eye on us at the same time.
 
I didn't do drugs, drink or even smoke. I just didn't want to be in school. I just squeaked by in order to graduate.
I applied to several nursing schools which required excellent grades. Finally I found one who gave a test of their own to see how much you really were interested in medicine. I aced that one and graduated in the top 10 of my class.
They worked us to death but I had no loans after graduation. Everything was paid for except books and uniforms.
I think high school is a total waste of four years.
My son when to tech school and had a fantastic instructor who taught him cabinetry and woodworking which he wanted to do since he was a little kid. Soon after he graduated he opened his own business and has never had to advertise for work.
I can't imagine him sitting in a regular high school and wasting four years.
 
An addendum to my earlier post. I enjoyed high school because I loved learning. I didn't enjoy every moment and didn't enjoy all of my classes but I did learn a lot. I always saw it as a stepping stone to my future and it served me well and got me ready for college.

I never considered it to be a waste of time although I did consider some of my assignments to be wastes of time. For example we had to write a minimum of 20,000 words in a notebook over the course of either a semester or a year (I forget which.) To me it was a complete waste of time. I think if it had been presented differently I might have been less resistant to it. There were a lot of pages in my notebook with either the word I or the word A written hundreds of times.
 
tbeltrans said:
Consider the population of the area, but still, it is rather a large number. We went to school in shifts, believe it or not. :cool:

Tony
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I attended high school in the San Francisco Bay Area--aerospace industry hub at the time, future home of Silicon Valley--and I think--can't find exact figures--the pop. of the HS at the time I went there was about 2,500; so half of what yours was, Tony; we also went to school in shifts; there were so many of us, the cafeteria was too small; so we went to lunch in 30-minute shifts, starting at 10:30 a.m. and ending at 2:30, I think.
 

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