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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.
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...
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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