Louis Proyect wrote: >The point that must be made is that high school prepares you for class >society by imposing a brutal reign based on these distinctions, while not >permitting you to move up the social ladder. Somebody whose parents lack >money or who is not athletically gifted is condemned to remain in the lower >classes until graduation. Resentments can boil high--to the point of murder >nowadays. When I was in high school (1968-71), I remember a curious cross-class coalition between alienated intellectual geeks like me and the "hoods," who I realize in retrospect were usually of more socially downscale origin than the jocks. We were joined in our contempt for idiotic teachers and sunny-tempered B students. Of course, the geeks went on to good colleges and the hoods to pump gas, so this cross-class alliance didn't persist. I guess this is one way in which high school isn't like grownup society. Doug
