In 8th grade, we sat in a circle. The teacher whispered a sentence to one student, until it got around to the last one. The story of course, had changed so drastically, and since then, I'm still investigating every witness :)
shareI'll never forget what my civics teacher, Mr. Blore, said to us (graduating seniors): "Please be extra careful this summer. If you survive it, you'll probably live forever." During his many years of teaching, he'd known too many seniors who went crazy during that first summer after graduation. And too many of them ended up in the morgue.
That very summer following graduation, a carload of kids from my class were headed up to a lake cabin. I don't remember what caused the crash, but four of them were killed.
The power of peer pressure.
shareTeachers abuse their power.
shareWe are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
I see you completely changed your original post here which was, "People are scum", you egregious fake!
shareOh it's the wind-up merchant again. I often edit my posts, sometimes many times. ' People are scum ' was on second thoughts too blunt and off-hand so I changed it to a less confrontational but similar and more thought provoking wording.
So you're backpedaling, doing a complete about-face from a misanthropic comment to then presuming to speak for, "we the people". Like I said, egregious phony. You always have been.
shareI hated that whisper game. Some kids would mumble it and I would just make the whole message up! Some teachers would then try and break down where the message started to change.
So silly, if he was such a smart guy he would have know we’d have cell phones with texting in the future to message each other with.
You're less likely to get bullied if you tell jokes or are in a band.
shareThat most people who gravitate back toward high school as adults haven't gotten over high school trauma or high school success. So they get jobs there either trying to relive their glory days, re-do their high school experience by buddying up to "cool kids" or else just take their revenge on the students that they never could enact on their own peers and bullies.
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