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  • Posted By: mfenwick @ 05/17/2008 4:16:42 PM

    Great comment! I Noticed that, too. At my 20-year reunion I learned that many of the popular kids had dropped out of college, been divorced twice, and were reminiscing alot. I don't know how many times I heard, "Remember when we...?" All they wanted to hear were 80's tunes. Pretty pathetic.

  • Posted By: goldeniangel @ 05/16/2008 3:26:15 PM

    All I know is that when I got to college, most of the popular kids from my high school that went there - and there were a lot - did HORRIBLY trying to make new friends because they'd gotten so used to relying on their social cliques, and a lot of them had dropped out by the end of the second year. Don't know what happened to them after that...

  • Posted By: obvious_thinker @ 05/15/2008 7:31:50 PM

    Wow, now that we have another "confirm the obvious" study on the books, maybe this "new information" can be applied to tweens/teens' social psychology & we can begin to crack the kids that are more likely to shoot things up. This just confirms that when the student body as a whole tries to not purposely make outcasts, then everyone is more successful. Could this really be as simple as equal treatment: a genuine smile & "Hi" to everyone, no exceptions?

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