What was your social status in high school?

There were only 23 kids in my graduating class., and we've been in the same class for 12 years. So it was a mixed bag. We knew how nerdy we each of us were. Even the kids I thought were the cool kids had warts. I graduated in 1964, and our class president was a girl. And even she was a near cool kid. I was the non-athlete, odd one, but I was treasurer of my class. And since I did so well, that I became treasurer of everything. For some strange reason, I have an ability to manage things. I absolutely don't know what that talent is. I don't do anything different, but somehow I do a good job managing stuff. (?). I mention this not to brag, but that is why I think I had a higher status than if I weren't treasurer. And let's face it, there were only seven other guys in my class. And one was my cousin.
 

My Dad pretty much guaranteed me that I could do my entire High School years at the same school.
Of course at the end of my junior year, we moved that summer to California.
I am 'Bummed'.
Another in a LONG list of a new schools, so just ducked my head and tried to be invisible.

I started the first 2 months at that school and low and behold, my Dad came home one day and informed us
that he was being stationed back at Pearl Harbor again!

So, I'm back in Hawaii, returned to my former high school and graduate with my friends. :)
 
I had a bad case of acne so girls found me reprehensible. Did not have many male friends, either. Played much sports and did become a bit more popular among my classmates when they did not do their homework and especially when we studied for our finals.
 

debodun said:
Bullied nerd.
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Bill Gates Advice To Young People he posted on Facebook a decade ago.

I loved the last rule ” chances are you’ll end up working for one”. Many of the nerds at my school became Doctors, Medical Research and other types of Scientists, Business owners, Engineers etc. And even 2 astronauts. They were all nobodies and nerds in school.

Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping — they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
 
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Homeschoolie said:
Bill Gates Advice To Young People he posted on Facebook a decade ago.

I loved the last rule ” chances are you’ll end up working for one”. Many of the nerds at my school became Doctors, Medical Research and other types of Scientists, Business owners etc. And even 2 astronauts. They were all nobodies and nerds in school.

Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping — they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
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It is good to know that at least SOME folks still espouse and believe in these values. When I have said things similar to this, I have been yelled at and called a "sickening right winger".

Tony
 
Homeschoolie said:
Bill Gates Advice To Young People he posted on Facebook a decade ago.

I loved the last rule ” chances are you’ll end up working for one”. Many of the nerds at my school became Doctors, Medical Research and other types of Scientists, Business owners, Engineers etc. And even 2 astronauts. They were all nobodies and nerds in school.

Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping — they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
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A funny list, but it didn't sound like Bill Gates to me. Turns out he didn't author it, nor is there any evidence he's ever even quoted it. It was written by author Charles J. Sykes.
https://www.hoax-slayer.net/bill-gates-high-school-speech-11-things-kids-will-not-learn-school/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/some-rules-kids-wont-learn-in-school/
 
I did not say he authored it I said he posted it out on Facebook....but now that I dig deeper he had sent it in an email. I found it in my mail box He didn't take credit for it in the email. Or anywhere else he sent/posted it. It was a quickly written heading I put on it "This is advice that Bill Gates Passes on to young people" might have been a more exact precise title.
 
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Homeschoolie said:
I did not say he authored it I said he posted it out on Facebook....but now that I dig deeper he had sent it in an email. I found it in my mail box He didn't take credit for it in the email. Or anywhere else he sent/posted it. It was a quickly written heading I put on it "This is advice that Bill Gates Passes on to young people" might have been a more exact precise title.
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Well, whoever originally said it, I appreciate your posting it. :)

Tony
 
Homeschoolie said:
tbeltrans said:
Very good assessment of some of the various cliques in high school. Funny thing, so many adults today still haven't grown out of that.

I found it interesting at the first and second class reunions, and even now many decades later, that many of the popular in crowd "peaked" and "plateaued" in high school, that was as good as it ever got for them! That was their ultimate achievement in life.
Some of them At the reunions do the same ole' arrogance, ignoring, snubbing and showing off. Weird and sad.

Even more disturbing they won't "Friend" on Facebook, or interact or converse with anyone on any social media, that wasn't in the high school "in" group. Many of the posts on their social media is their fellow in crowd friends posting frequently telling them how beautiful and awesome and great they are. Congratulating them for every little thing they post especially the trying to show off, brag posts.

I can't understand why they are still "kissing up" to each other at this age.
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Homeschoolie said:
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping — they called it opportunity.
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Ha ha, don't listen to the grandparents, the parents consider flipping burgers to be a dead end job! I was proud of my kid working at subway when she was in High School, but once she was in college I made snarky comments about working at subway and as a waitress. Then I enthused all over about her getting a part time college job in an assisted living facility. She might not have considered wiping butts as better or even as lucrative as waitressing, but it did have a little career path, first getting certified to pass out medications, then getting certified as a nursing assistant. Now that she is in real nursing college and has in her future (I hope) a real career with adequate pay I am glad I made fun of 'high school jobs'.
 
HoneyNut said:
Ha ha, don't listen to the grandparents, the parents consider flipping burgers to be a dead end job! I was proud of my kid working at subway when she was in High School, but once she was in college I made snarky comments about working at subway and as a waitress. Then I enthused all over about her getting a part time college job in an assisted living facility. She might not have considered wiping butts as better or even as lucrative as waitressing, but it did have a little career path, first getting certified to pass out medications, then getting certified as a nursing assistant. Now that she is in real nursing college and has in her future (I hope) a real career with adequate pay I am glad I made fun of 'high school jobs'.
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My parents considered all honest work to be useful, valuable and edifying. My siblings and I, and virtually all of our friends, primarily worked in shops and food places during HS and college because it was part-time employment that didn't require experience.

My children did the same.

Once full time school was finished everyone moved onto their career paths.
 

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