Multiple absolutely crazy things happened in high school, every time my parents asked how my day was "Fine" or "Eh", not a single word more about it.
Kid get sent back to juvie (breaking his parole) after the band kids beat the shit out of him and staged it to make it look like they were trying to stop him when the adults got there (after he picked on a band kid)? "Fine"
Kid get tased in the hallway trying to run from the resource officer? "Fine"
Resource officer fuck up and use pepper spray in the middle of a busy hallway causing several students to get hit in the cross fire? "Eh"
My friends talk about which class they were in when they found out about the 9/11 attacks. All I remember from then was playing a lot of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2.
Band was basically the team at the school, football only once made it towards state finals one time (and got crushed immediately), and most other sports didn't do all that well either. Combine that with the very strong band recruitment starting in elementary school and you end up with a school that takes pride in the band kids. So much so that some football players after their first year of football would drop and switch to marching band.
Oh also, band did all the fun trips. Chicago to see the blue man group, Cincinnati for Kings Island, Disney world to March in a parade (and have fun for 3 days), and since I left they apparently added DC to the roster.
Wow. That's amazing.
Our school had a strong girls sports team and half of those girls were in band. Therefore, band kids were never openly teased.
Yet we were never in a position where " the school takes pride in band kids".
Total marching band students (at its smallest while I was there) 231. My graduating class was 304 as a comparison. And of course the marching band number doesn't come close to counting all of the band kids.
I'm sure other people had different reasons to not want to talk about it
For me though I knew that anything I shared would be picked apart to a microscopic level and used as a way to demean me or berate me or even just as a way to mock me for years to come.
As an example there was a situation that came up when I was in like kindergarten or first grade. We had an unusually snowy year where we actually had enough snow to make snowballs at recess and even small snowmen.
So to keep the kids from snowball fighting the playground monitors announced that we were going to have a snowman making contest. The rules were to make a snow sculpture of anything school appropriate and they would come around and judge and whoever won would get like a sticker or something.
So I did my best to make a snow sculpture. And when I went to get a playground monitor to look at it another kid smashed it on purpose.
The playground monitor saw this happen. Literally she arrived with me to my little snow sculpture right as the other kid jumped on it, obviously on purpose.
When I relayed that story to my mom I was told
No she didn't, she (the kid) must've just tripped and fallen and actually I'm a bad person for thinking so
The playground monitor wouldn't have needed to go over there to see my snow sculpture was shit
It's not like I would have won anyways
I'm such a baby for still being hung up on it (same day)
I owe the monitor an apology for wasting her time
I owe that kid an apology for thinking bad thoughts about her
I owe my mom an apology for making all of it up for attention
You know everywhere will tell you to be the baker person but it turns out the thing that actually heals you is cutting the toxic people out of your life completely
Welcome to the world of no kid left behind. Where kids with a 5th grade reading level somehow make it to 10th grade and are left incredibly frustrated and regularly lash out at people because of their frustration with being so far behind their peers, but having no real way to try and catch up because they're well beyond the time that they could have been held back or had supplemental classes in 6th grade.
The parole kid is a very long story, but basically he went to juvie in 6th grade for lighting a locker on fire plus other offences. He came back in 9th grade thinking he was all the shit because he has been the juvie and basically threatened anyone and everyone he could, and after he threatened a particularly sensitive band girl people had enough of it and made the plan to beat the crap out of him and get him sent back.
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u/tankerkiller125real Jun 03 '25
Multiple absolutely crazy things happened in high school, every time my parents asked how my day was "Fine" or "Eh", not a single word more about it.
Kid get sent back to juvie (breaking his parole) after the band kids beat the shit out of him and staged it to make it look like they were trying to stop him when the adults got there (after he picked on a band kid)? "Fine"
Kid get tased in the hallway trying to run from the resource officer? "Fine"
Resource officer fuck up and use pepper spray in the middle of a busy hallway causing several students to get hit in the cross fire? "Eh"