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How far do you currently live from the town where you grew up?
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So you're back... about time...
(Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday January 01, @04:53PM
How about this perspective: Some of us just didn't participate in school
I know for a fact there were some kids at my high school who did "high school nonsense" exclusively with their fellow students quite literally 24x7 doing school sports, school performing arts, only hanging out with cliques from school etc. I know there were people who exclusively spent their teen lives solely doing school sponsored activities and only hanging out with students from our school. Sounds really boring and its not what I did.
I mostly did scouts, church, family, part time jobs, eventually Army Reserves (joined at 17 while going to high school), ham radio, some summer internship type jobs where my parents worked or had connections, bbs era modem stuff... I mean, yeah, I went to school about 6 or 7 hours in the mornings on weekdays if it wasn't summer or a holiday, but aside from sitting there, I didn't have much to do with high school. I met people from school and hung out with a couple but it was not a major part of my life. I think in total I dated slightly more girls who didn't go to my school than did (mostly met at work). I never got much into DnD but I played some and liked visiting my FLGS, so I met people there, also. Oh and the gym; the one I went to in high school was not very social (it was a YMCA) but I did meet some people my age there.
From my own experiences and watching my kids, some scout troops are much more office politics style political than others. I suppose work also.