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I didn't go to public school, is it really as 80's-teen-movie-tropes as pieces like this make it sound? It's just really hard for me to take seriously.
by wcummings 12y ago
I didn't go to public school, is it really as 80's-teen-movie-tropes as pieces like this make it sound? It's just really hard for me to take seriously.
- ejk314 12y agoTo an outside observer, no. The tropes are exaggerations. But to someone in public school at the time, it can certainly feel that way.
- thret 12y agoI can really only speak for the guys, but certainly at my school it was very much like that. Broadly speaking, sports, smokes, geeks, money. They each had their own click and hung around well defined areas during lunch and recess for obvious reasons.