My high school experience (class of '85) included cliques, but only in a really mild way. There was no outright malice that I remember.
Then again, I hung around with the stoners a lot of the time, so.
A ghost? What's the deal? Is every frat on this campus haunted? And if so, why do people keep coming to these parties, cause it's not the snacks.
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Amy - Jun 21, 2009 1:54:08 pm PDT #9286 of 28404
Because books.
Hil R. - Jun 21, 2009 1:56:08 pm PDT #9287 of 28404
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My high school experience (class of '85) included cliques, but only in a really mild way. There was no outright malice that I remember.
Then again, I hung around with the stoners a lot of the time, so.
In my school, the stoners were a clique. And they didn't want me.
When I was in middle school, the movie that I thought best summed up the experience was Welcome to the Dollhouse. I'm not sure I'd say the same thing now, but at the time, that was the movie that felt the most like what I thought middle school felt like.
Barb - Jun 21, 2009 1:57:37 pm PDT #9288 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
My high school experience (class of '85) included cliques, but only in a really mild way. There was no outright malice that I remember.
Breakfast Club.
I'm also class of '85.
Glamcookie - Jun 21, 2009 2:00:13 pm PDT #9289 of 28404
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I was class of '88 and I see Heathers and Breakfast Club as decent representations. I was friends with people across cliques, but wasn't really in a clique myself. So, not nerdly but also not super cool.
Catcher in the Rye made me think of King Dork again. Loved that book!
Amy - Jun 21, 2009 2:00:45 pm PDT #9290 of 28404
Because books.
In my school, the stoners were a clique. And they didn't want me.
What I meant was, maybe I didn't notice. What with the being stoned. But that was largely facetious.
There was a *lot* of crossover in my school, between dating and academics. Stoners who were on the paper, jocks who were mathletes, etc. I'm sure, as in any school, there were kids who felt left out and otherwise *outsider* but I am serious when I say, there wasn't any outright cruelty, and it was a fairly small school, so it would have been hard to miss. Which, essentially, just made high school a nice experience for *me*.
Anne W. - Jun 21, 2009 2:03:53 pm PDT #9291 of 28404
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
We had cliques at my high school, but no malice that I can recall. It was a small enough school that there was heavy overlap between the different sets and more than a few guys who agonized over being on the football team vs. being in the school musical.
Phineas, though? Didn't get tossed off the branch soon enough.
My sister!
DavidS - Jun 21, 2009 2:07:39 pm PDT #9292 of 28404
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My high school experience captured on film: Dazed and Confused, River's Edge, Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Amy - Jun 21, 2009 2:08:21 pm PDT #9293 of 28404
Because books.
I also honestly don't remember anything I read in seventh grade other than The House of Stairs. Which I think was an optional thing. Eighth grade English, I sort of remember my teacher but nothing else. Wow. I wasn't even doing drugs then.
Ninth grade I know we read Romeo and Juliet, The Red Badge of Courage, Heart of Darkness, and some short stories. I'm sure there was more, though.
Steph L. - Jun 21, 2009 2:08:36 pm PDT #9294 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I was class of '88 and I see Heathers and Breakfast Club as decent representations.
Class of '89, and these are DEAD ON.
askye - Jun 21, 2009 2:11:42 pm PDT #9295 of 28404
Thrive to spite them
I can't remember my first impressions of Phineas, I read it again in high school for a class and it was okay.
I loved The Outsiders and I read and reread it and also Rumble Fish. (I think that was the one).
The books I really liked, although I didn't read them in order, was the Tillerman Cycle. I read Dicey's Song first, but Homecoming is the first book.
Did anyone read To Take a Dare by Cresent Dragonwagon and Paul Zindel? About a run away. I liked it a lot and identified with the main character as being an outsider and wanting to escape her life but not for the same reasons.