High School Labels

I found the essay on High School labels to be somewhat comical and rediculous. "I don't go around the other group because I'm scared of being one or getting kicked off the team." Yes that would be sarcasm. My high school days were in a bogus Chicago suburb called Plainfield, many know this city because it got tore up by a tornado in 1990.

At my school all the labeled people meshed together and quite often the jocks were themselves burnouts. I know, I partied with them. Yet I was not a jock, I was not a burnout either. I simply hung around the kids that pissed everyone off by listening to metal music and wearing black, rebelious yes. .and some of us were burnouts. I know, the cool house to hang out at had a kid that grew hydro in his basement. From what I remember he had little success with it.

Even though I was rebelious metal head that hung out with burnouts I still had many friends on the cheerleading squad, football team and in the band. The whole deal with lunch room's was not apparent at my school as well. We chose a table that was free on the first days of school then claimed it ours for the rest of the term, no matter where it was in the lunch room. And on a final note any uprising between the jocks/ burnouts were easily settled.

I know because a friend of mine called the jocks battling apes in the homecoming news paper and when I heard them plot to jump him after school I told them they weren't going to do it. One big guy turns from talking to his honey and asks why so then I explained his ties with the school wouldn't allow him to fight because then he'd get kicked off his precious football team.