Sean <spenn at shaw.ca> writes: > > > > But it was also a very reasonable school environment. Cheerleaders > > and football players were in my advanced math classes. Members of the > > "Hiliners" dance line (tended to perform at athletic events) also > > played in the school orchestra. Physical violence was almost unheard > > of, and when it did turn up it tended to be between kids in the "hood" > > social group, not between than and somebody from another group. > > > > There were cetainly "cliques", in the sense that people tended to hang > > around with who they tended to hang around with, but they weren't that > > hostile, and they didn't follow the obvious social / political lines. > > It's interesting how things have changed - depressing, really. You had a > fairly benign HS experience in the late 60s - I wonder if it was > typical? Quite possibly not. A lot of SF fans around my age had the bad canonical experience people talke about. > I had a moderately stressful one in the early 80s in the booming > little city of Calgary (~500,000) - I think it was fairly typical, > plus or minus N degrees of coolness. I was a private tutor in the > late 90s in Vancouver, BC, and some of the senior HS kids would talk > about having to have "backup" or they might get tooled. These were > kids from upper middle class+ families. There *is* also the question of how much of that was "style" as opposed to real worry. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info