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In reply to the discussion: 2 Torrington CT HS football players charged with raping 13 year old. Victim bullied on social media [View all]kiva
(4,373 posts)and honestly this wasn't the case. Were there cliques? Yes. Was everyone nice? No. But there was a certain sense of connection - as a whole our class was still worried about Vietnam (though it was winding down) and the draft, and among most of the girls there was a push for change.
We entered high school with a strict dress code (no pants/Levis), a pretty rigid sense of behavior - be ladies - and most of us left three years later (no freshman class) wearing our Levis and garmish boots and behaving like young women, not ladies. I wasn't part of the cool kids, so there may have been more sense of rivalry there, overall not.
Again, not making it out to be a time of rainbows and butterflies, but there was a different dynamic between girls and young women.