Sunday, October 19, 2008

What Happens in a Wealthy Ohio Catholic High School

I went to a very small, wealthy Catholic school.  I'm not Catholic, but I went because the school is really well known for the education it provides.  The school was already tiny, so it didn't help that most of the kids in my class, and actually in the entire school were not interested in any of the same things I was.  They were either really religious, really stuck up and into themselves, or really into sports (and nothing else.)  There was only a handful of kids in my school that I enjoyed being around.  I guess we could have been considered the "burnouts."  But we weren't burnouts by any means.  We just weren't friends with the "jocks."  I'm not sure what others referred to us as, but I think I would say that we were the kids who would spend the majority of the school day in the art building and not in the gym.  It's strange because usually in high schools, I would assume that there are "popular" and "unpopular" kids and only a few in-betweens.  But in my high school, there weren't really "popular" kids.  Well, there were, but it wasn't a known group of individuals who were considered "popular."  There were definitely "unpopular" kids, but if you weren't unpopular, you were kind of popular.  Maybe this was because the school was so little.  I don't know.  And I guess the article is similar to my situation in some ways.  For example, some of the "jocks" would want to hang out with us, which was fine, no one minded.  But I don't think any of us would want to hang out with them outside of school.  This was just because, well for me at least, all of the kids who hung out with the "jocks" or who were "jocks" all seemed to be really stuck up and snobby.  Most of the girls at my school were unhappy if they didn't have their Gucci purses and Ugg boots on thier body at all times.  I'm not like that, so I thoroughly did not enjoy being around them and listening to them whine about how their "parents wouldn't let me drive the BMW to school today."  I get irritated very quickly with ungrateful people.  All of my friends appreciated life and art and their friends and family and they are all good people.  None of them were shallow or petty and that's why I liked them.  Plus, they listened to good music.

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