Sean -- See,
I think that's what we're supposed to suspect. But I'm convinced the gossip about the mysterious person who moved in and paid for a house in cash is about Hawkins.
All the rest of it is basically dependent on that, but on the second viewing that line just leapt out at me as being a plot point masked as casual chatter.
Whoever bought the house had a wife, so the two bits of supporting evidence I'm waiting for are 1) for her to turn up, and 2) any encounter between Jake and Hawkins.
Me, too, and boy was I pissed about it
Kathy is me. I believe our HS requirement was 4 semesters, so at least after 10th grade I was done. I think I've blocked most of it out.
We had to take a year of PE in high school. Sucked. If we'd had some choice as to what we wanted to do (and had a pool) I wouldn't have minded. But it is really cruel to make budding teens run laps in 85 F and sunny and
not give them time or facilities to shower!
Way to go building appreciation of anything athletic and encourage stink-born mocking by their peers.
Aaaand I back on shots twice daily. Figured it was coming.
I had to take gym the whole time, I'm pretty sure, with a swimming requirement, which actually sucked, due to the 80s hair.
Oh, lord, I'm glad we didn't have a swimming pool. I shudder at the thought. I think our PE was pass/fail or something. It didn't figure into our GPA, in any case.
Hee - Sookie and Michel
arm wrestling
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We had gym as a graded class, too. The wording made me think that's not what the kid was talking about though.
We had the same. There were tests and stuff though, not just shooting free throws.
I think he means that the fact he ran track instead of doing homework should have gotten him a better GPA.
I think he means that the fact he ran track instead of doing homework should have gotten him a better GPA.
Well, that's certainly the way TDS spun it; dunno if it's true.
I wore my hair long and straight in high school, so hair was not an issue. And swimming was the ONE athletic thingie that I didn't either hate or feel self conscious about.
We had to take gym all 4 years, including swimming, and had to pass it, but I don't believe it affected our GPA. Every semester we had to do swimming, track and weight-lifting (I hated the latter two with a passion because of the combination of exertion and monotony) and then did assorted other activities based on weather and grade level (softball, football, dodgeball, basketball, volleyball, wrestling, ice skating/hockey, bowling, etc.)
Girls didn't do football, wrestling, hockey or bowling and instead had aerobics, archery, (for some reason, the school thought giving weapons to teenage boys would be a really bad idea. Can't imagine why) badmitton and tennis.
Back in my day
::waves cane::
gym counted like any other class towards your GPA, a fact which I'm still bitter about, since without it I'd have had a much better shot at valedictorian.
