high-school reunion

[cellio]

It's not my imagination; I really am from a different planet than those folks.

Today's mail brought a pitch for a high-school reunion (round-number year, so presumably special). Now even if I wanted to go this one starts out with two fatal flaws (a Friday night, and Thanksgiving weekend), but... no, let me just share the list of highlights for the weekend:

Friday:
- WPIAL high-school football finals
- dinner with cash bar

Saturday:
- family get-together at "FunFest" (whatever that is)
- flag football game (playing, not watching)
- Pitt football game
- "hanging out for the evening at a local establishment...suggestions welcome"

Sunday:
- Steeler party

No, I really don't think so!

Comments

[cellio]

Is high school so important that people will spend a whole weekend on reunion?

Maybe to some, but not to me. Only about a quarter of my graduating class declared an intention to go to (4-year) college, so maybe this is a big deal to a lot of my classmates. (Some went to "business school", which didn't mean MBA but rather secretary++, some went to trade school, some got jobs straight out of school, and I think a few went into the military. A surprising number declared the intention to become beauticians.)

Other demographics to give a feel for the academics of the place when I was there: no national merit scholars, one national merit "commended student" (next step down) (wave), two AP classes available only in senior year (so I missed 'em), no official support for advanced students. The place has changed since then.

[magid.livejournal.com]

High school is formative in many ways, but only four years, after all. Though if people didn't go on to college, this is the only possibility for this kind of reminiscing, so I suppose it makes more sense. I'm a much bigger fan of the 'one big party' approach for this kind of thing. Plenty of time to chat with people, reconnect, arrange to meet later if that's what's wanted. Because for me it's about the people, not dusting off that tarnished (if it ever existed) school spirit or something.