High School Reunions

I've not been in touch with anyone from highschool, except my sister. I didn't have a terrible experience, but neither was it my glory years. But I could use the liposuction. (Just kidding, not sure if liposuction is safe. It's surgery! )

I wouldn't attend my HS Reunion either. Its not like I hated school or anything but being a kind of a nerd I really didn't fit in.

I finished HS in 1992 - and I dont believe we had a 10 year reunion - but I would CERTAINLY go to one if it was organised. I LOVED HS!!!! I had some of my best years there!!!
I am still best friends with 2 people from HS and keep in touch with a handful more!!

Alot of my teachers never thought I would amount to anything - I guess looking back I can see why - they even told my parents that I wouldnt get very far in life My bestfriend and I played up SOOOO much!!! (one teacher many years later told me that we were the worst students she had ever encountered ) but gosh it was fun...

anyway I would love to go back to see what everyone is like and to catch up with them

- and hope to see those teachers that said those things about me and flash my "I am an architect badge - I earn $X amount a year - my husband is extremley successful" haha - it would be priceless

I've been out for ten years. I went to my five year and that is more than enough to last me the rest of my life. I didn't like those people in high school so I doubt I'll like them now. I do still have some friends from high school but even they have gone a little nutty since then.

Of course, we had our five year at a bar and someone got thrown throught the downstairs window by the time my friends and I got there and then they turned off the tab. Then I had to deal with some old class mates being convienced that I didn't got to school with them. Needless to say I'd have to be either drunk, off my rocker, or crazy to want to go to another one.

I've only been out for 2 years. I know, I'm a youngin'. That's ok though. I think I'll go to most of my reuniouns. There were only 30 people in my graduating class and we all were pretty close. One of the nice things about having a small class. I think it will be nice to catch up in about 8 years.

Hey everyone should go, I was one of the ones everbody kinda looked down on
because "they thought they had money" after HS they had to go work like
everybody else. They changed!

Even tho I only live 3 miles from where I grew up, I have absolutely no contact with the people I went to school with. Nor do I wish to. In my school, status counted for everything and parents put themselves in the poor house to make sure their kids had the right tags on their jeans and sneakers. Yet, there was also a blue collar crowd who's highests goal every month was to make sure their mortgage was paid and their kids ate. And their kids were shunned. Even tho my family wasn't part of that crowd, we were brought up with their values. We didn't die if our jeans said Wrangler instead of Calvin Klein. My first car was handed down from my mom, not bought off the showroom floor for my 17th birthday.

I went to my 5th reunion and they weren't friendly then. Why should I pay $200 each to go see people I don't like?

Sandy

First let me say that my experiences in high school were very positive.

I wouldn't want to go to high school reunions mainly because I HATE to look back -I'm the type of person who likes to move on.

Another reason is that I KNOW 99% of my class are married and have kids so if I went, I would feel like a BIG ODD BALL since I'm single and have no kids still AND I probably am the only one from Utah who lives out EAST! I've missed the 5th, 10th, and 15th high school reunions so far!

Another reason is that I live out of state and I REFUSE to fly in just for a reunion!

I do wonder about some of my old friends so it'd be neat to find out what have happened to them but I am not curious enough to go to a reunion for that! LOL.

Because of bussing and a family move I went to three different high schools (two in Charolotte, NC - one in Lansing, MI). All three had 30 year reunions last year but I didn't attend any of them - simply not interested.

George

I went to my 10 yr and it was a nightmare. I grew up in a VERY small town and everyone knew everyone. We all grew up together and I was one of those kids who was popular in all circles, but not one of the "in" crowd. I was friends with the "in" crowd, the stoners, the nerds, the jocks, you name it. So I figured going back would be fun. But I was wrong What I found was that so many of them (and it was class of only about 200 people) were just horribly judgmental. I was skinny and pretty in high school and well...now I'm not! Nor was I at my 10 year reunion. One girl even said, "Wow...I remember I was so jealous of you in high school. You were so pretty back then. What happened?" Yeah. Nice, eh?

However, I think if I feel better about myself by the time my 30th comes around I will attend. I would hope that by then people would have got over themselves and more of them will be bald and overweight and wrinkled, too

I went to my 10 year with the hope that people had grown up a bit. They didn't. The woman who organized it didn't like me in high school. She cashed my check, then told me when I arrived that I couldn't get in cause I hadn't paid in advance. Also left my bio out of the book. Guys who wouldn't give me the time of day 10 years earlier were asking me to sleep with them (OMG that blunt).

The only amusing part of the reunion was the fact that the music in my time really stunk, and when they started playing some of those vintage songs, everyone asked them to turn them off.

My 30th is coming up soon. I'm not even curious.

i really hated high school, i mean really hated it, most of my friends went to different schools, so i dont think id go.

nope not interested

Originally Posted by Kumbulu

I would stick my head in a public toilet and flush it 3 times rather than go to a high school reunion.

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Well said!

We don't have reunions that much in the UK, if we did I'd NEVER go. I can't stand most of the people that I went to school with. Look forward not back.

At our twenty year reunion they had the emails and stuff for everyone. I just got in touch with the few I cared about and avoided the reunion. The other one, a ten year one, I paid to get the memory book and picture (without going - it was an option) and I never got either. I take it as a sign.

Honestly I try to forget high school, who wants to be reminded of it?

~Heather

I graduated in '96. There was no 5 year reunion (there was even talk that the high school I went to was going to close... but it didn't), and I don't know if there will be a 10 year one. I'd be interested in seeing what people have done with their lives. I know I've changed a lot since HS, and I know that many of the people in my graduating year are now married and some have families. I don't feel threatened by that... yet. I was considered a nerd and an outcast (volunteered at the library and was part of the "green club".), but I'm still interested in going. Once will probably be enough, though.

I know my mom went to her last reunion and she and 2 others got a prize for having travelled the longest distance to attend! (went to HS in B.C and now lives in Quebec! Just 2 provinces shy of clear across the continent! )

My high school was divided into cliques: cowboys (AKA goat ropers), jocks, dopers, hippies, blacks and Hispanics. Oh, yes-we must not forget the tramps!

I never fit into any of these (nor wanted to): didn't chew tobacco, hated sports, didn't do drugs and DEFINITELY didn't put out! As for the ethnic groups - well, that's obvious.

Thank goodness, for an independent study program. I was able to spend almost every class, in the library, working on my own curriculum. The only class that I wasn't able to duck, was PE.

If my school's cliques held true to form, a reunion would deteriorate into a melee, between the cowboys and the blacks (this was a yearly event on the last day of school), the dopers and the hippies would be getting stoned, in one corner and I'd be off, in another corner, with a book.

Interesting, I never expected a majority of TCS members NOT being interested in attending their HS reunion. I answered likewise!

Well, I've been out of school for 5 years (The time sure flies) and I have a reunion everyday when I walk into my living room..... I was home schooled from grade 7 untill I graduated at grade 12. I probably would go to a 10 year if I had been in hs if it was near were I was living. I don't think I would trave for it. The hs my dad went to just had there 100th and only about 3000 people showed up. Thats not that many for that long a period.