Anyone 'social' in high school

[jerry old]

Achieved permanent status in detention hall in 10th grade and part of 11th, got out of it by moving.

 

[officerripley]

Even the hippie movement was still everybody looking and acting the same, when you stepped back and looked at it. The exception might be those who actually left the city and went to live on those outlying hippie farms. I wonder if any of those have survived to this day.

Tony

Probably not many; I met a few people who lived for a while in hippie communes, both out in the country and in big houses in the city and the gals I talked to became very disenchanted with it. They said at the beginning, the guys would be all enthusiastic about how the work would all be shared equally, cooking, cleaning, even childcare. Welp, when it came down to it, *some* of the guys'd cook but none would ever, ever wash a dish and what the guys meant by "childcare" was that once the kids were old enough to be taught to play guitar or climb a tree, the guys'd be there but changing diapers or comforting a fussy toddler? Forget it. So the gals I talked to got fed up and left pretty quickly.

 

[PamfromTx]

I wasn't popular at all during high school; I was painfully shy throughout high school. Didn't like going to the dances and didn't date. I was a late bloomer. lol Did belong to a few clubs though. It's been so long that I don't even remember what all I enjoyed during those 4 years. The best part was only having 3 classes during my senior year, both semesters. I guess I was an average student but did have favorite subjects (Biology and Algebra). I can still remember graduation night; it was a blast.

I hung around with some good classmates and we did go out to football games, etc. as a group. Many good memories.

 

[Jim W.]

I surfed and smoked weed.

I was in 10th grade in 1972-73. I had a photography class that was in a new building with a modern dark room. There were three groups of kids. The ROTC kids, the band kids and the freaks. Of all those three groups, we (the freaks) were the only ones who regularly "used" the darkroom. Yes, we'd develop film and print pictures, but mostly we'd lock the door and smoke weed. Fortunately the room had a good ventilator exhaust fan. Unfortunately some of the exhaust came out into the classroom. Amazing we never got busted. I'm pretty sure the teacher knew, but she was cool and she liked us. Mostly because we were the only ones producing photos.

 

[Keesha]

I fell in love in high school for the first time. He was the most handsome guy there and the kindest. He looked like Jesus only more handsome. My grades slipped when I met him. I’ll blame it all on him. Lol

 

[tbeltrans]

Probably not many; I met a few people who lived for a while in hippie communes, both out in the country and in big houses in the city and the gals I talked to became very disenchanted with it. They said at the beginning, the guys would be all enthusiastic about how the work would all be shared equally, cooking, cleaning, even childcare. Welp, when it came down to it, *some* of the guys'd cook but none would ever, ever wash a dish and what the guys meant by "childcare" was that once the kids were old enough to be taught to play guitar or climb a tree, the guys'd be there but changing diapers or comforting a fussy toddler? Forget it. So the gals I talked to got fed up and left pretty quickly.

Interesting. I never knew anybody who had lived on a commune. To me, those people seemed to be closer to living the life they espoused. What I do remember is seeing hippies panhandling and then laughing at "the man" who spent his or her life working instead of hanging out and getting stoned.

Tony

 

[Ruthanne]

Nope, not me. I was usually outside of school smoking a cig. or not going to classes until I quit. I did not like high school at all.

I did get a GED many years later and went on to college.

 

[squatting dog]

Oh yeah.

 

[911]

Captain of the football team and Prom King during my senior year. I had 2 dates for the Prom and ended up with none. (Long story)

 

[fmdog44]

Worked in a grocery store four days a week so no time for social stuff with the school. Even if had time I was not interested.

 

[CinnamonSugar]

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 crowd

@asp3, I went to a high school in S Calif near LA in the early 70’s and as our football team was undefeated for 3 seasons in a row, footfall was a *really big thing* for us!

 

[Pappy]

Enjoyed playing in a marching band, but I was so busy delivering newspapers, I didn’t time for much else.

 

[911]

Captain of the football team and Prom King during my senior year. I had 2 dates for the Prom and ended up with none. (Long story)

You cannot possibly know how embarrassed I was to be the king of the court and no date.