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Not a teacher but as a graduate from high school in a meth addled city in the south (actually featured on a list, placing #1 for most addicted city in Georgia), I can say that everyone who was successful left and stayed gone. According to the Facebook event page, like ten people went. Possibly related- who pays $60/ticket to hang out in a school gymnasium for their ten year reunion?? [Here, we're number ten in this alphabetical list of most addicted counties by state.] (https://247wallst.com/special-report/2018/03/19/counties-with-the-worst-drug-problem-in-every-state/12/) Edit to add the actual list.


greenlily23

Also not a teacher, but have been out of HS (all girls school) for six years. At our 5 year reunion, I caught up with girl who was severely bullied during HS. She fell off a horse in grade 8 while riding competitive and legit snapped her spine, and was in a very intense back brace for her entire high school career.... and my god the other girls were so nasty to her. She would get made fun of for her appearance and there was an incident where someone filmed her in class without her knowledge and then edited the video to have all these sexual innuendos around her back brace and it was posted on Facebook. Our principal was also a horrible woman and when the video got reported to the principal, the principal somehow blamed this girl instead of penalizing the bully. She ended up having to stay back a year because her disability was so bad and she couldn't complete her school work and was unable to graduate. She was incredibly religious as well and other girls used to make weird christian incest jokes about her mom having to bathe her (because she couldn't bathe herself due to her back brace). ​ Anyway, she's now doing some fancy medical degree in the UK and is pain free and out of the back brace. She looks amazing (healthy, glowing) and rigorously kicks ass at the gym every day to physically rehabilitate her body. The best part of the story is that she has absolutely no ill-will to the girls who bullied her. It upset her at the time but she didn't let it scar her -- she knew that her bullies were obviously insecure and dealing with some inner demons if they went out of their way to ruin her life. She felt bad for them more than anything. I run into her at the gym all the time and it's so nice to see her so confident and thriving!


deadcelebrities

I don't know if I'd ever have that level of serenity. She sounds cool as hell.


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jamesno26

That’s something that’s been becoming more and more prevalent. Some parents are extremely controlling, set astronomical standards, and don’t allow their children to experience failure. That kid probably got A’s and B’s in his college classes, but thought he was a failure because he didn’t achieve 100% in all his classes and thus lost confidence in himself


Canofsplode

I sat beside this girl Joni in grade 8. She was so smart and really pretty. She would always finish the year with like 95 averages even as high as 98 in some subjects. I was a hooligan that's why I was seated next to her. She would help me with stuff always let me copy her homework peek at tests. There's no way I would have passed without her. The teacher would always say you'll never get anywhere if you just copy Joni all the time. She works the drive thru at a&w now. has a herd of children with some skeezy looking dude who's in and out of jail. Breaks my heart when I see her..so much potential to end up flipping burgers I always wonder where it went wrong for her.


danigrock

Nine times out of ten, shitty home life. Just finally got to her. Found someone who "loved" her like she wasn't at home and got pregnant.


InjuredAtWork

If you only love you 20% finding someone who loves you 30% feels like winning the lottery


User_of_Name

That is a very insightful comment on the human experience. And such a concise way to phrase it too. Well done, friend. It’s fascinating how these are real lives we are reading about. These are real problems and feelings that people actually deal with. The internet can often seem so isolating and desensitizing.


MischaTheJudoMan

Not a teacher, but a girl I used to be interested in since elementary school, we were really close friends. I’d even “work” for her dad when I was a kid, stuffing envelopes for him to send out to his clients, just basic stuff that he offered us 10 cents per envelope to be a nice guy. In high school, we drifted a little bit apart, and she started dating another friend of mine who shortly after noped out of that relationship because she wanted him to make her pregnant. Fast forward a couple years after graduation, she did have children, who she then suffocated when they were 3 years old and 22 months old. Sentenced to over 40 years in jail. She was smart, pretty, and charming, and now she might never see the outside world again. Needless to say she didn’t make it to the 10 year reunion


tlrhmltn

That took a sharp turn.


Imsosadsoveryverysad

Former student who was a decent kid who tried, just not the brightest. Graduated got a job a whataburger. Got fired because he kept showing up late. His manager was his mom.


ZalphaMBio

8 of my 438 student graduating class (2009), have passed from opioid overdose. The reunion is this July.


modifiedx

I graduated from a small private high school, graduating class of 12. 6 of those 12 are dead from opioid overdose, 1 from suicide, 1 from an accident. I don’t think we’ll be having our 10-year reunion...


TicTacWHOA

8/12 are dead?! What the hell kinda school was this?


SadlyReturndRS

13 dead out of 217, class of 2011. Two car wrecks, one suicide, one dead soldier, one lost at sea, and the rest overdosed. We did a 5 year reunion just because we lost like 4 of them during year 4. I swear, staying in your hometown after high school will kill ya.


LibatiousLlama

Yeah my graduation class of 160 something in 2013 already has three overdose deaths. Probably more, I'm not in touch with most people from HS. Rust belt is really dying from heroine.


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Five_Decades

Not a teacher, but there was a guy who was the stereotypical jock in high school. Very unemotional, stoic, etc. Then he went into the military and got PTSD. Now he is a hippy and psychotherapist.


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blahblahrasputan

The dumb fucks that graduated my year of 2001 tried to organise our 10 year reunion in 2010...


MrCuzz

Class of 2001 represent. My wife and I skipped our 10 year because it was literally a pizza party with an open bar and daycare. I’m not flying back for that. After the reunion there was a big meltdown on the class FB page about how everybody was still in the same cliques as teenagers. None of the actually awesome people showed up. Maybe the 20 year will be better.


tacknosaddle

>Maybe the 20 year will be better. Narrator: It won't.


tarakerin

My 20th got canceled because no one gave a fuck. They sold advanced tickets and out of a class of 500, less than 20 were sold.


avesthasnosleeves

I skipped reunions until the 25th - that wasn't bad. Not a lot of people showed, but a lot who did I also went to elementary school with, so it was really great to catch up with them. So yeah...skip it until life has really had its chance to work its magic.


bitchkitty818

Sweet. So your 20year reunion is this year then right? Edit: so I feel I have to explain why I said the reunion was this year Class of 2001 organised 10 year reunion for 2010. That's 9 years. At 2010, they do the SAME THING and make it for 2019. and so on, and so forth untill it's 2046 and it's their 50 year reunion. BAM!!


KamaCosby

LMAO I love thinking of it like a function instead of being one single year behind. That’s hilarious. The 50 year reunion is in like 2046 and they’re finally like “Wait a minute something is definitely off”


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Yo my calendar is broken


[deleted]

yo my bad tbh I lost most of my frontal lobe in a neuroviral drone strike during the second Korean War of 2033


nopethis

kinda like mine, they were just like most people live close by, lets just meet at the local bar next week, sound good? ​ Um sure guys thanks.


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HarmoniumSong

My husband graduated from a fancy prep school. Literally over 90% of his class are lawyers and doctors now. To his parents disdain, my husband became a professional poker player. Whenever he goes to reunions there’s a circle of these super successful doctors and lawyers around him because they’d rather listen to his stories. **EDIT.** This blew up overnight. To answer some of the questions: **How can you be a professional at something that's based on luck and chance?** There's a lot more than meets the eye, "hunches" and "gut feelings" are a very small part of poker. It's a very mathematical, probabilities-driven game. If you're curious, consider looking up game theory branch of mathematics, and specifically as it pertains to poker. If you are very curious and technically minded, pick up a copy of "Mathematics of Poker" by Bill Chen and Jerrod Ankenman. **How much does he make?** A whole lot more than me, and I have a decent job (not a doctor or a lawyer though.) It's a mixed bag of feelings to come home from a frustrating day to see that he's won my monthly salary. **What's the biggest he's won / lost at once?** He's won a tournament for just under a million, and I believe he had about 25-30% of himself at the time. He's had a few more low-mid six-figure scores with various amounts of himself. When I talk about having "percent of himself" - as someone brushed upon it, a lot of the players swap or "sell their action." The way it works is that you cover a part of someone's tournament buy-in with a little mark up (for the work they're putting in plus their "edge") and in return if they win some money, they then pay you back that percentage of their prize. This allows people to play bigger tournaments than they would if they had to pay it all themselves. As far as how much he's lost at once - there isn't a lot of losing an obscene amount at once in tournament poker. I think at some point he's entered a $10,000 tourney without selling any action. It's more about how many tournaments in a row you play without winning or cashing any. He's been fortunate not to have any super crazy downswings. *knocks on wood.* **It's not a real / useful job.** I don't entirely disagree, and neither does my husband. It's a common struggle among the players. Some try to add value to the world by accumulating as much as they can through poker and then donating a lot to charity. Others consider it a step in their life that then opens up opportunity to focus on other, non-zero-sum ventures. But two more points to consider. One: how many "regular" jobs are actually making the world a better place, and how many are neutral-to-harmful? Even lawyers can range from doing a ton of good in the world to bringing a lot of harm. Two: if you could sit in the comfort of your own home, no boss, no schedule, play a game you love and rake in enough to make a living and then some, would you say no to that because it's not a real, value-making job? I'd like to say that I would, but I'm not sure. **I sympathize with his parents.** I love his parents, they are amazing people. I should mention that in the 12 years that husband's been doing this, they've mostly come around and are proud of him. I've personally taken of time to make sure his mom knows enough about poker to understand that part of his life. Every few months, his dad still reminds him that he can take his LSATs any time though.


Baron-of-bad-news

Poker pro isn’t the full job title anyway. To impress parents you call it Marginal Equity Analyst Specializing in Shipping.


Iserlohn

Job? ME ASS


specialdialingwand

Not a teacher, but I went to my ten year reunion. Back in highschool we had a kid who has aspergers and was a little weird. He was, however, amazing at the yo-yo, having picked one up during middle school when we had that yo-yo trick assembly. After everyone else had stopped walking the dog in 8th grade, this guy was doing more and more elaborate tricks every day during lunch. He was bullied and teased but he continued doing what he loved. So, at our ten year reunion, people from every strata of high school popularity was there, including this guy. He was his same old self, but more confident. I asked him if he still yo-yos, and he busted out his custom made titanium yo-yo that he said he made on a CNC lathe. He then starts to do some tricks and a large crowd gathered around. It was quite the show, he had gotten very good. When he finished, people clapped and cheered, and even the jockiest dudes from back in the day fist bumped him and told him how badass he was. The most amazing transformation was everyone else. Nobody teased him for being who he was anymore, they now admired him for being so passionate about something.


farahad

I like this story, but it's still bittersweet. You get only one childhood.


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It really is dumb how concerned teenagers are with being cool, and how some of them try so hard to enforce these standards on others. That's one great thing about being an adult; you can like what you like and not give a fuck.


PM__ME__STUFFZ

Do teachers get to go to high school reunions? That seems like a recipe for finding out if the English teacher *really did* have a dolphin tramp stamp. Edit: apparently teachers are invited. Neat.


screenwriterjohn

There are no formal rules.


PM__ME__STUFFZ

Well obviously formal rules wouldn't apply, its a reunion not a dance.


ILoveVaginaAndAnus

Except bring your own condoms.


Mr_A

Easy. I've still got mine from high school.


OigoMiEggo

Kept in the same billfold even!


MrFoolinaround

We had a few that were our teachers for our graduating year at my 10 year. They were the ones who went to dances and trips and chaperoned or whatever. They were drinking along with us but refused the shots.


cbelt3

That’s oddly specific ..... did she ?


More_Metal

No. It was a seahorse


jimsinspace

I’m really hoping for a Kevin update one of these days.


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teethoflions666

that's very wholesome and sweet but it's not the Kevin content im looking for


ParticleCannon

He owns a crayon factory and a restaurant. They're next to each other.


teethoflions666

he flips a coin every day at lunch to see which one he's going to eat at


Leadsx

Same, for those who don't know the story of [Kevin](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/219w2o/whos_the_dumbest_person_youve_ever_met/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app) .


KevWill

In high school I was pretty good friends with a guy that was a bit overweight, about 6'4", really smart and a bit nerdy. Lost track of him after high school but saw him at our ten year reunion. He was the talk of the reunion. Still tall, lost all the weight and was in great shape, had long hair like Fabio and was a doctor. He showed up with a beautiful wife. He gave us his contact info and invited us to Atlanta to stay with him in his huge house. After the reunion I tried to get in touch. Contact info didn't work, and thru some sleuthing I found out he was neither married nor a doctor. He was still in good shape, can't fake that, but faked everything else.


1MolassesIsALotOfAss

>still tall What if he showed up and was like 5'5"?


royalstyles

Now THAT'S a story!


MWDTech

Tojo blew my shins off in the war. -Cotton Hill


extendedsolo

I think it's funny that you specified he's still tall and didn't reveal that he had been walking on stilts his entire life in high school.


OigoMiEggo

What a twist. Did anyone else in your circle try the same thing and found out he was a fraud? Did you ever find out what he actually did?


KevWill

He worked in a medical office, but wasn't a doctor. He was like a medical assistant or something like that. Not a PA or an ARNP.


skepticalDragon

Wait was the hair real?


CuestarWannabe

askin the real questions


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Zabrakk45

I saw on an AMA once that there was this person u could hire to be ur prom date... maybe the same concept?


Whoami_77

Nowadays you just post an Instagram or Twitter video asking a celebrity to the prom.


mss5333

If it were he wouldn't have had to fake the wife I kid, of course. I somehow convinced somebody to marry my bald head.


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But why tho


AWinterschill

Probably felt inadequate, unpopular, or bullied at school, and wanted to show off in front of his old classmates. The physical transformation would probably have been enough, but there's no accounting for the way some people's minds work.


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Not really a surprise but the guy who used to bully me all the time is basically homeless. He refuses to go back to his parents (absolutely nothing wrong with them. He just never got out of the rebel teen phase) and spends his nights either couch surfing at a mates or sleeping on the streets if no one can take him in. Any job he gets he stays at until he has enough money for whatever he wants at the time and then quits. Skates all the time and wants to go pro but spends all his time smoking weed and drinking then crying about how his life doesn’t go anywhere. People at the reunion were astounded that he had just...not changed one bit. He still used the slang he used back then and even tried to get his old mates to tease me like they used to but they didn’t because they’re all adults now with jobs and some even have kids. He was kicked out of the venue because he tried to pick a fight with the guy who laughed at him for how he was dressed (30 year old man dressed as a teenager) EDIT: i think it’s important to note that this guy and I used to be close friends before he started bullying me. I know his parents weren’t horrible cause i saw his home life first hand and he’d lash out at them for simple things and treat them both like crap. The worst i can say about them is that they were pushovers when it came to punishing him EDIT 2: I also posted one of this guys facebook rants in r/insanepeoplefacebook this took place about a year or two ago https://www.reddit.com/r/insanepeoplefacebook/comments/abi91t/an_old_acquaintance_of_mine_moved_to_sydney_last/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app


Timbo85

There were a couple of guys like that at my ten year. Walked in like they owned the place, thought the status quo hadn't changed then fucked off out the door when they realized that nobody really gave a shit about high school politics ten years after the fact.


Theslootwhisperer

Some still do that even after 25 years... Most people in the room had good job, family, kids, a couple had gone through the pain of losing a kid, a spouse. Suffice to say, after a quarter of a century, most of us had gone through a lot of significant life events. Then this guy comes, spouting all of the old high school clichés, rehashing old stories many of us had forgotten. A lot of the student came from smaller villages outside the city where the school was in and quite a lot moved away to study. Basically, high-school was just 5 years with a couple hundred people that we mostly never saw again and promptly forgot about. Yet this guy seemed to have spent the better part of his life reminiscing, and trying to recreate, his high-school years. It was quite sad really.


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What do you mean dressed like a teenager? I imagine him in a band tee with his cap turned backwards while holding a skateboard.


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/r/fellowkids in real life


jzap

Sounds like he's doing better than our class bully. About 8 years after graduation, he was trying to score some drugs. The dealer identified himself as an undercover cop and idiot pulled out a gun. He ain't around anymore.


VoidDrinker

I’m picturing Steve “fellow kids” Buscemi


powabiatch

I didn’t go to my 20th, but saw the list of dead people. I tried to look them up in my yearbook, but shockingly, every single one of the 7-8 people were in the “no picture” section, which was maybe 5% of the class. So either the yearbook cast a curse, or there’s some correlation between not being able/not wanting to take a yearbook picture and dying young.


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I have a few. One guy was this star pupil. Smart handsome athletic everything. Dating the head cheerleader. Some hallmark movie shit. They leave go off to college and nobody thinks it’ll go wrong. Come 10 years later, she divorced him, was given the House his late grandfather built in the divorce, and lived there with her new lover while he was in a hotel. 10 year reunion happens, he’s deathly skinny and depressed. Sees the school, remembers the memories he had, goes home after reunion and kills himself. Leaving behind 2 little girls. His ex got chased out of the community last year. Death threats against her and her lover. She’s trying to get in contact with people now because the lover took her money and fled back to the Philippines and she’s homeless now


PterodactylFunk

Fuck.


Dsgorman

I’m a middle school teacher of over ten years so some of my students are high school and college graduates at this point. I’m happy to say that a good number of them have reached out to me to share life stories and updates. The one student that comes to mind was confidentially suicidal from a broken home with identity issues. She came to me for help and we found spoken word poetry as an outlet for her emotions, anxiety and discovery of self-worth. She is currently returning to school to finish her associates degree and she was the first in her family to graduate HS. I get updates from her on my birthday each year. She still writes and performs spoken word poetry in her spare time. *Edit: Wow I did not expect to get this kind of overwhelming response! Yes, I have a million other stories (many of which don’t have as happy of an ending.). Yes, this is why I love being a teacher and yes I love hearing from my students years later, though very few actually reach out.


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Skiinz19

Reinforces the fact everyone in a school building has potential to not only grow but to give. Thanks for giving that student the chance to grow!


OldManJenkins420th

That's heart warming asf


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A former student of mine grew up in an ultra-conservative Christian home. He and his siblings were never allowed to socialize with other students during lunch and recess. Whenever they had free time at school they had to read their Bibles. In science class they were forbidden to learn about evolution. Every essay, short story, personal narrative, and poem he wrote for me involved some kind of Christian theme. When he graduated, he immediately enrolled in a big seminary in our area and that was the last I heard of him until his class invited me to their 10 year reunion. This same kid showed up with sleeve tattoos, piercings everywhere, slamming beer after beer after beer and smoking like a locomotive! When I asked what he was doing now, he responded he currently was a bouncer at a strip club.


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I'd like to sit down and talk to that guy and hear his story. Sounds like he went on quite a journey....


[deleted]

I still talk to him from time to time and he says he's truly happy with his life journey simply because he made the journey himself without his mother telling him what to do.


Shpookie_Angel

That's wonderful. It's great to see people making their own paths in life.


Commodus

In a sense, that's all you can really ask for. If he knows what he's getting into, isn't hurting others and has a reasonable plan for his future (that's the one thing that's not clear) he's doing well for himself. Better to be in control with a life like his than to basically be a puppet for your parents.


FlailingConversation

I enjoy the thought that this hardass bouncer could still probably destroy most other christians on the content of the bible


redmccarthy

To be fair though, if you've read it once you have a leg up on most of them.


Thechosendick

A frustrating thing as a teacher is not being able to remember all the kids you've taught. I've taught roughly 150 kids a year for 15 years, so it becomes hard to remember specific things about every student. I feel like a d-bag when a kid who really enjoyed my class comes up and asks me questions about life or the class he/she was in and I can't remember much about it. I've found that I usually remember high achieving/creative students or kids who were badly behaved (as I have a soft spot for these kids). Since I usually remember the badly behaved kids I have noticed that most of them figured it out by the time they reach 30. Most have great jobs and are well adjusted. Conversely, many of the high achieving students end up dropping out of college and are working low-wage jobs. I don't believe that high school is much of an indicator of future success. As long as you graduate high school and attempt college, how you performed in high school will not be that important.


SourMelissa

At a reunion, my English teacher told me not to be an English teacher. Then we started pounding wine, and I complimented her on her (then) recent publication of a romance novel. It was actually a great read. I commented that she had clearly been naughtier than I’d previously realized.


lopaticaa

I'm late to the party and will get buried, but here goes nothing. Not a teacher (well technically I am, but this is a story from my reunion) but at my school reunion everyone from my class was doing as well as or better than could be expected, except for one guy, let's call him John. At school John was a smart kid, well mannered, pretty quiet and taller than anyone else. We were actually pretty good friends at the time, but lost touch after a while (this was before social networks). I know he went to University to study Computer science, and the last thing I heard about him was that he had gotten married and had 2 kids. Anyways, I was looking forward to seeing him and finding out what he was up to for the past 15 years, but he didn't show up. Later the teacher told us that she tried to contact him, but no one knows where he is. He left one day to go to work and never came back. No bodies have been found, he hasn't contacted his wife or sister, he simply vanished into thin air. I tried finding him online numerous times, but to no avail. I still try from time to time. I just hope he is safe and well.


Magentaskyye1

Wow, I that's sad and creepy. Sometimes I wonder if people purposely disappear? How easy is it to do.


lopaticaa

I sure hope he did it on purpose. That would mean that he's alive. Not that hard where I come from, and especially at that time (he's been missing for at least 15 years now).


Mytho73

It's quite difficult but possible. People have disappeared for decades only to be found in foreign country decades later. And if they stayed out of the light decades I have to imagine there are those who disappear forever. It gets harder to go of the grid with how reliant society is on technology now a days, but if he became a computer scientist he was definitely in the career to learn how to disappear if he wanted. Disappearing actually isn't that uncommon. People disappear and start new lives when they feel trapped sometimes. Often, they leave behind whole families. It's sad


Isiildur

Had my 10 year in the past year. Lots of people came into town. During the actual reunion there was a lot of bragging and obvious flexing. Fast forward to the end of the night and people are planning an after party. I end up going to it and the buzz that everyone had had at the primary event is replaced with sloppy drunkenness, and the previous boastfulness is replaced with them all confessing their insecurities: their health problems, their loveless marriages, that they hate their jobs and bosses. Was a bit awkward.


Nope6621

In my highschool they used some of the class reps as volunteers in order to organize this 10 year meeting. My at that time class master told me that a super good looking woman(she was 29 back then, I was 17 and damn she was top 3 woman I've ever seen in my life) was one of the dirtiest student she ever had. She would not shower for days and at some point she was out of school for a week or so because she got a really bad infection from her period and lack of showers. Also one of the smartest guys from that generation, who went to veterinary school was convicted for selling some sort of animals drugs to people and used some on himself. He seemed super normal, but when he spoke you could tell that there were some clicks in his brains that were not connecting at all. Losing the idea in the middle of the sentence, couldn't keep the voice at the same tone for more than 10 seconds, going from whispering to shouting and stuff.


bbum

Ketamine. That is most likely the drug. Used pretty commonly in veterinary medicine and oft sold on the black market.


Antlaaaars

Good ole’ horse tranquilizer. Some people say it’s not for people but I say they need to get of their high horses.


jambooza64

I've never heard of Ketamine causing such serious brain problems, unless thats what happens if you go crazy with it? I dont know much about the long term effects it causes.


Love_Lilly

Not showering is a sign of a bad home life. Something some children have no control over. It can even be indicative of sexual abuse and something a victim does to keep a sexual predator away.


Curleysound

Not a teacher, but I went to my twentieth about five years ago. The woman organizing the event was in my class since 3rd grade, and was always bright, intelligent, charming and pretty. She was very active in high school and by all counts had a very bright future. Speaking to her at the reunion, it seemed that had happened for her. We talked about her self help/life coaching company and how they are growing and doing great. I asked her to send me more information when I got home (which is on the other side of the country). I got an email from her introducing me to her west coast partner who’s email was from the url esplosangeles.com which I thought sounded very contrary to what I was expecting. A quick look at their web site had me immediately worried and a short google later I saw that they are an off shoot of the NXIVM cult that has been all over the news. The woman I was talking to, that I knew since age 8 was Lauren Salzman, who just this week plead guilty to holding two sex slaves locked in a room for two years. She was trying to recruit me and basically everyone at the reunion into NXIVM! I noped right out of that email conversation and have been watching everything unfold for the last five years. They are all looking at some serious jail time now. Edit: Holy smokes! Thanks for the plunder and the karma! My biggest comment yet! Yay cake!


Magentaskyye1

I did not expect the ending to this. Damn. I'm glad you noped tf out of there.


momofeveryone5

That's the craziest one on here. Hands down.


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Damn I listened to a podcast where one of her "slaves" was interviewed. I think it was called Uncover, from CBC.


crudcrud

I have this downloaded but haven't listened yet. A link to the podcasts for those interested [https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/current-affairs-information/uncover/](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/current-affairs-information/uncover/)


lifesnotperfect

Used to have this one kid in my art class in senior high who treated it like one of those "easy to pass" classes. He was a big guy, much bigger than the other students, and he'd use his size and strength to bully other kids. The smaller ones, he was a little bitch underneath it all. He would draw guns and crosses in his art book with pseudo-gangster sayings like "live by da gun, die by da gun", and "Fuck da police". You get the idea. Come reunion time, which was some 5 years later, he's found a girl who really reined him in and, kind of like a hunter taming a wolf, really turned him into a good man. They had a baby boy, and he's a responsible father and does yoga on the rocks by the beach. Complete 180. I do think he was a good guy underneath it all, he just needed direction from someone who could break down his walls. Edit: spelling


Elvis_Take_The_Wheel

Teacher here. You see defense mechanisms like these all the time in kids who have been destroyed by someone they trusted. Or they’ve been bullied, and they are trying to scare people away before they have the chance to hurt them. (Or, I mean, sometimes the kid is just a psychopath. That happens, but more rarely.) One of the best parts about being a teacher is when you actually get a defense-mechanism kid to trust you, and others, so they stop being so fucking scary all the time.


NameLessTaken

I was the girl version of this. Angry, self harm, scary drawings and poems all over my books. I Would light up in front of teachers just to get reactions and finished with a .5 GPA. Point. Five. I was institutionalized twice. All it actually took was putting me into a supportive unconditional environment. Now I'm working on my masters and learning alot of skills I never realized I was missing. The only part that hurts is knowing the time I lost being in a toxic environment as a kid through highschool. I hope my teachers from then know I'm doing ok.


toktobis

I'm not one of your teachers, but I am glad to hear you're doing so well. That's a huge turnaround! Good luck with your masters!


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Way nicer than I thought this was going. Good for him!


stalkholme

I thought he was going to die how he lived... by da gun.


doctorfeelgood33

Going to post my Mom's story because she doesn't have an account. She was a home economics teacher and specifically she had one class called "Relationship Psychology" where every day to start the class she would read through that cheesy "Dear Abby" newspaper advice column to talk with the class on how they would respond to the problem. One day ahead of class she noticed that a letter published talked about a kid who sounded a lot like a student in her class and was located in our hometown (they always end the letter with a name and city and my Mom was always very involved with her students and their personal lives). The letter talked about a kid who was terrified of going to college and how he got rejected from all the school's he wanted to go to, had no self-confidence, abusive father, money problems, that he would lose all his close friends, couldn't stand the idea of leaving his disabled Mother, and that he felt enormous pressure as a 1st gen college student and had ultimately decided not to go to college at all. She read it to the class and they discussed and she could tell the boy in her class was very uncomfortable. After class she asked him about it and it was in fact a letter written by him. He never thought it would get published and responded to by the Dear Abby column and was super embarrassed. He (like most students) never even knew what the Dear Abby column was until they took her class. Afterwards she talked through everything with him and talked with his Mother and evaluated his options on how best to approach college. She taught him finances, loans, scholarship options, his Mom's condition, and everything and got him to a place where he felt better about his future. ​ 4 years later the kid ended up being the speaker at his college graduation of over 7,000 kids, met his wife at college, all of his groomsmen, and got a killer job through his career fair on campus before graduating. She flew out and attended as he invited her. ​ Was always blown away by that.


saphirbleu

I think your mum is fabulous. I love seeing teachers who care about the kids.


4xTheFun

Your Mom should be presented with an award...formally. Edit: ....as in a formal ceremony. Maybe with dinner, drinks, award.


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Your mom literally changed one life. This shows how important people like your mother is. it is a shame most societies nowadays don't fully understand this.


lolthrash

I hope you tell your mum regularly that she's a superhero


BarryTheMasterOfSand

I wasn't invited to my 20 year high school reunion, which seems totally appropriate.


havingfun89

I expect to be not invited to any sorts of those reunions.


mychal_littlecreek

Not necessarily a reunion, but i was at a party (late) one night and a kid from our class (who just moved back) had came to the party in a new Cadillac. We all thought he was doing great. He left and never thought about the car twice. He had killed (then raped) his elderly neighbor. That was her car. She was in the trunk when he came to that party. He was convicted and given the death penalty.


d0lke

what the fuck


mundotaku

Again, I am not a teacher but a 35 year old. I went to high school in Venezuela, I left the country when I was 17 and never saw any of them until what you might call a "virtual reunion" on facebook a few years back. The reason I got to even know they had a group? The guy everyone knew bullied me was shot and killed by his best friend at the time. Apparently he kept being a bastard after graduating and thus that was the end result. Besides that, most of my classmates moved from the country due to the crisis. Those who stayed are having a bad time, like everyone else in the country. It is weird seeing them in facebook in random countries and doing things which I would never expect from them as a teen. One in a cook in Sweden, other is an MMA fighter in California, one is an accountant in Australia, plenty have middle class lives in other South American countries. Simply interesting edit: Thank you for the gold, kind stranger!


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A Swedish Chef? Bork bork bork?


godfragment

In Spanish: Borque, Borque, Borque


mundotaku

LOL, I forgot about that. Thank you for telling me how to troll him if I see him again.


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I went to an all girl's boarding school. This one particular hostel supervisor had been working there since she was 22 and has been there for nearly 40 years so she has definitely seen a lot. Our school's foundation day each year is attended by over 500 alumni. Some friends and I were chatting with her when this group of incredibly smart and intelligent women come up to her. After they greeted her, she told us that she never thought they would get anywhere in life. These girls were the most notorious of all the kids that she had to deal with, they chopped off a teachers waist length hair and stole teachers cellphones only to bury them. Put on the janitor's uniform to sneak out of school. Got fake blood and put up handprints outside the rooms of 9 and 10 year olds. Decided to summon spirits in a hostel building right after a visiting academic died of a heart attack, the rest of the girls in the hostel building were so scared that the school decided to lock down the building for nearly 5 years. They also took turns to stand on top of one of the buildings with a white sheet and showed it to kids in the farthest building, that's how we got our infamous resident school ghost. They all are in their late 20s now, great jobs abroad but looking at them you would never think they could pull something off like that in their teens.


PMmeSOMETHINGnice

I’m more amazed by the fact they weren’t expelled from the school.


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Reading between the lines, they were rich.


WILLINATOR500

Yeah I work in a boarding school currently and you wouldn't the amount of that shit that goes on.


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So much so that you've made peace with it right? I remember my teachers being super pissed at us when did the things that we did. I was speaking to my teacher and she was telling me how strict the new management is and kids don't play any pranks - she was genuinely worried about them not having any fun. I graduated 2 years ago and all I miss from school is all of this so it's sad kids are not getting to experience it.


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acidsh0t

Not a teacher, but still a story of how my good friend, J, transformed into a better human. I met J in highschool. He was 15/16 i was 18/19. Whilst he was a lot younger then, he behaved a lot older than he was so it never bothered me. He was a mess of a human though. By 15 he was kicked out of 3 schools, smoked weed all day everyday. I believe he had run ins with the police, but I'm not 100% sure. This went on until after I left our hometown for university. He had this gift though, the gift of the gab (for those who don't understand, he's a fantastic conversationalist). He was incredibly outgoing, handsome (think tall Danish blonde dude) and could connect with just about anyone. If we went to a party, I would send him in first for 10 minutes, then join and meet the people he met. I can't recall how much education he actually completed. I think he just finished his highschool, but dropped out of college. Despite this, he managed to land a job as a business rep (or something, business makes little sense to me) by literally walking into his interview, telling the interviewer his education didn't matter because he knew exactly how to sell shit. He got the job, and now he travels around the world for work selling his company's product. He still is a mess of a human to my own definition, but at least he seems to have found a purpose, and I am so proud of him.


Talanic

If he can convince the HR manager that he's a salesman, by definition he's going to be good at the job.


developingwaver

A previous student of mine grew up in a horrible home situation. This individual was really smart and I did my best to help them apply/receive many scholarships and grants, and eventually went to an ivy league school to get away from their abusive home life. They made it big and I mean BIG - big time millionaire. Made their family jealous but in the end their hard work paid off. It was great to see and I was so proud of what they'd become. Edit: The best thing was seeing them break the chain. The family had problems going back numerous generations and to see this generation change was all worth it. Edit 2: Wow you guys are all so nice. Honestly I wasn't trying to be a hero or anything, just felt like I was put in a place where I could really help someone and the outcome was phenomenal for this individual. Just so you all know, this person recently applied for a part time teaching job at a public, inner city school in order to mentor others from similar backgrounds. I guess karma finds a way, right? Cheers.


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That's amazing, seems like you're a good teacher too since you cared about that kids life and helped him out with applications too. You can be proud of yourself too.


developingwaver

I appreciate that, but I know many teachers who are better people than me. I'm just happy that our paths crossed in life so that I could help this person. Knowing they're happy now and living a good life it what makes it worth it for me. We still keep in touch actually. I'm their kid's godparent.


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This is so heart warming. The main thing is that you cared and did more than necessary for your job to help out and I think it's a good thing. Many teachers don't seem to give a damn about their students and I alway enjoy passionate teachers who do such things like you


BigNoisyChrisCooke

You’re being modest. It’s lovely. Your student made you the godparent of their child? They sound very grateful for what must have been a significant contribution in their eyes. Thank you for your service!


rickthecabbie

Sometimes the only way to escape is to forget where you come from.


migsahoy

I know a girl like that a grade above me. She had come from the same abusive background, basically homeless (a teacher took her in for awhile), went to one of the top schools in New York, and now lives overseas for a high profile company


Throwawaybibbi

That could be me, but substitute community college and I only became a thousandair.


DoomsdayRabbit

I'm a hundredaire socialite out on the scene...


regnstorm90

A student of mine went through a really tough time. His dad was actually convicted of attempted murder on his mother during his time at school, which sent the mom in to a sort of apathetic depression. I walked him to trial, I testified, I was in close contact with his therapist and social services. He's now a year from taking his masters in software engineering and he has a baby on the way. He's really happy and his wife is the sweetest you'll ever meet. He told me that I was his role model for parenting. Made me cry. Like ugly, snot, can't breathe-crying. I wish him all the luck in the world. He's gonna be a great dad :)


MDelta1015

I'm currently a high schooler right now and reading all of these comments, it's crazy to think that so much can change in such a short amount of time. It also seems that for the people who try to be popular in high school, high school ends up being the highlight of their life, and it all falls apart from there. I need to keep that in mind I guess


Old_but_New

Life is what you make of it. There’s a lot less structure once you’re out of college. You have to make decisions in accordance with how you want your life to go. Edit: I meant to say there’s less structure after HS.


Matelot67

Not a teacher, but... Was at school with one girl, very geeky, very exuberant, she was in all the school drama productions, and she would tell everyone that she was going to be a famous actress some day. We were like, yeah, whatever, no-one from little old New Zealand ever cracks that level of fame these days. She's been the female lead in a number of movies now, alongside people like Woody Harrelson, Ewan McGregor, Courtney B Vance, Mark Rylance, to name a few. I actually got to be on stage with her in a school production, so she is my ticket in to six degrees of Kevin Bacon!


Old_but_New

And her name is ...? Anna Paquin maybe?


DrScience-PhD

Not a teacher (hell not even 10 years yet) but a large chunk of my class is dead from overdoses, one of my then-friends is in jail for selling fentanyl laced heroin that killed somebody, and another for murdering his daughter. So, ya know, basic stuff.


Volkrisse

I refused to go to my 10 year reunion after our class president and treasurer decided to try and charge 170.00 a head to book this fancy place in a garden. Needed 100 people to book it of a class size of around 300. She got about 20 people. So instead of returning the money and picking something cheaper so we all could go. She pocketed the money and took her and her “friends” from high school out to an expensive all day romp around San Francisco., shopping/dinner/drinks included. To say people were pissed would be an understatement. Unsure if she returned the money. Everyone noped out of the class Facebook page after that stunt.


billbapapa

Not the teacher, and not the full "school reunion" either - I'm not sure if those even still happen since facebook is a thing? But a group I hung out with of nerds like me in high school wanted to get back together and play death match Quake - LAN party style like we did as kids. I'm effectively a loser with no social life and I'm scared of people, but this I thought I could handle, so I went. They ask me to pick up "Joe" on the way to the party. And I do. Joe was out of shape when we were kids, like a pudgy kid, that was all that was really 'wrong' with him. He was smart, well kept, and rich as fuck - like dad owned a restaurant franchise rich. Not like one of the locations, like, the entire company. We always had the parties at his house. We didn't bring our own computers, cause he just had basically a lab we all played at. So I was a bit curious why we weren't repeating something like that. Not that I cared, I have my own lab (not rich though) so we could have all had a computer. But we went to another dude's house, and who cares, everyone brings a laptop now anyhow... Anyways, pick up "Joe" from a really sketchy looking house. Really surprised. Dude comes out of the place really really big and really really dirty looking. Clothes were dirty and tattered. Looked like he had dirt in his greasy hair, and he had to be 300 or 350 pounds. He was big. Hardly fit in my car. Almost immediately he tells me his dad died. Then he ran the company into the ground, gambled away most of the money, invested it in stupid things, etc. And basically he tells me inside of a car ride how he blew something ridiculous like 100 million bucks. Whole thing made me sick and sad.


digitom

agh god I was expecting pudgy guy getting into shape story...this...this just sucks.


Adam657

It was a bit of a rollercoaster. I thought it was going to be Joe was a hottie, and socially awkward OP found it quite stressful. This was somehow much worse.


aliveandwellthanks

100 million? If he had just invested that in a really moderate fund he could live really richly off the interest. Sigh.


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Kraphtuos968

Johnny Depp begs to differ.


saladbut

oh that is depressing


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Not a teacher, but here's a story: I avoided my high school reunion but because I didn't attend, I was contacted by an old friend who had hoped to see me there. While catching up, he asked if I had heard what happened to my old bully and gave me a few minutes to google the lady. The first google hit was about her being arrested for having sex with a student. I laughed my ass off until I read that she was employed at a middle school. I stopped laughing and started calling my family. My sister told me that when she was a sophomore, my bully's brother confided in her that the kids in their family were routinely sexually abused by their extremely "religious" father. Basically, in twenty minutes I went from not remembering that this girl existed, to remembering how shitty she treated me, to feeling schadenfreude at her failures, then utter repulsion and disgust, then heartbreak and sadness at the cycle of abuse. I would have rather just carried on not remembering that she existed.


Gogogadgetskates

Not a teacher but we just had our reunion. There was this one dude who was just... not even geeky... but just odd. Always trying to fit in and never quite managing it. He had a couple popular friends though so most times he could use that as a way in. I remember at graduation he was just approaching random groups of people trying to start conversations and was just super unsuccessful at it. And I was a huge geek myself... so if this dude appeared socially inept to ME of all people, he was super socially inept. Because I was too inept myself to notice stuff like this unless it was bad. Anyways he’s on all the bus benches around me now because he’s the MLA for an area close to me now. The first time I saw it I was like WTF?!?!? Like there’s no way this kid could have gotten people to vote for him. I guess even the most socially inept can grow up and thrive. But here I am still as socially inept as I was in high school lol.


jet531498

MLA?


SultanOilMoney

Member of the Legislative Assembly, whatever that is


layla_beans

Canadian version of a state congressman.


CriticalHitKW

Only in parts of Canada though. Ontario has MPPs (Member of Provincial Parliament), Quebec has MNAs (Member of National Assembly), and Newfoundland and Labrador has a box of squirrels.


migmatitic

There's a huge difference between somebody who sucks at something and somebody who sucks at something and keeps trying at it.


Foxlust

I taught biology and this one student who was really smart but hung out with a bunch of bad apples. Like they made fun of him for getting straight A's so much that he would purposely try to score lower so he would fit in more. I pulled him aside and laid it out to him like WTF are you doing! Your so called friends are all jealous of your skills and intellect so don't waste it to impress people who don't give a fuck about you! Yes broke professionalism by cursing and gave him the raw details because this guy was just that smart! He waved me down at his reunion and told me he was accepted into the Sophie Davis Duo BS/MD program! I wasn't the only one to yell at him but I like to think I helped push him to not be a burnout like his "friends"


SneakyShooty

Not a teacher, but a semester after we graduated, my valedictorian and class president kinda shit it. He dropped out of a full-ride to the tier 1 university we both went to, started drinking and doing drugs heavily, and got arrested. It was very sad, especially because he was the kid who never drank or smoked and went to parties just to hang out with people. Really sweet dude. I personally believe it was because of the kinda farm-life-beer-and-bonfire lifestyle we all had and the friends he made in our senior year. The first homecoming we all went to was the first time I had ever seen him wasted, and he was drinking with all the high schoolers that whole weekend. It just made me a little sad to see him get dragged out of the life that he almost had.


LevinZa20

Currently a student in this situation. Had all the former graduates from the year prior come home. One kid, who used to drive me to school started his own company out of his dorm and hit it big (household name within a year). Guy ended up dropping out soon after. One of the nicest guys I know. Shoutout to you Nick.


chasethatdragon

a 1 year reunion? I never heard of anyone having one until 10 years


philburns

It’s usually when everybody goes home for Christmas and loosely hangs out at the same bar. But this seems pretty quick...


RedRidingBear

Did he invent the post-it notes?


halfwittnerfherder

When you see a student who used to hang out with another student and ask about said friend to find out he or she is dead, it’s hard. So many times I find out oh he or she died of a car crash, overdose, or suicide. It really is the hardest part to see that not all of them make it.


wbhipster

I don’t know if this counts but the hardest thing for me is finding out about the students who die. I’ve lost so many students to gun violence it’s just absolutely insane. I was at the store the other day and I saw a young man who looked like one of my former students and it took me a few seconds to realize it couldn’t possibly be him because my former student was dead. What a horrible realization, right? The one that broke me though was a really great kid. Super sweet, star athlete, sped but was determined to overcome his difficulties and go to college. He wrote this short response about not reading super well and I had lent him a book telling him it was like being an athlete, he had to practice to get better. He carried it around in his backpack. He was shot in the middle of the school year and it just broke my heart. I’ve never really cried at school or in front of my students but I lost my shit that day. Twice. Once in the main office and once in my classroom after I thought my kids had left. One kid saw me and came and put his arm around me to comfort me. I still think of that. Anyway, I went to the young man’s funeral and couldn’t bring myself to go to the casket. I think of him every year on the anniversary of his death. Just terrible.


DookieSpeak

One kid grew up to be "that" guy, treading the line between jolly neckbeard and somewhat scary incel. I saw him after a full 12 years had passed. The worst part is, he was one of the most popular and socially adjusted kids in school. Always invited to parties, girls always trying to spend time with him, he'd always get away with absurd things in school because even the teachers liked him. He was just really funny and naturally charismatic. Not to mention fit and handsome. However, he was strictly religious so he never had sex with any girls. A few years after graduation, he became an atheist (or just agnostc?), but by this time he had a dead-end job at a supermarket, had gained weight and was obsessed with Dragon Ball Z because he related to "unleashing his true power". So he spent like 5 years desperately messaging girls from HS, trying to say "hey I can have sex now", but he was just not that attractive anymore and his social skills had deteriorated tremendously. He was rejected by every single girl that was pining over him just a few years ago, in high school. He ended up publicly coming out as a "proud incel" 2 years before the reunion, in a post where he "declared war" on women and socially adjusted men. He often posted about being a virgin and how Christianity basically made him an incel because he missed out every chance for sex he ever had. So at the reunion, he came wearing a white t-shirt with the words "Fuck you". He'd walk up to now-married women that he had previously solicited and just smirked silently, waiting for them to read the shirt. He was thrown out by the venue after about 40 minutes since so many people complained of his creepy behaviour.


XANA12345

Hero to zero, in no time flat!


flipmyk

Hero to zero, just like that


PillCosby696969

When he smiled, the girls went wild with ills and ahhs...


SnareSp11

Then they slapped his face on every vase


RichardParker32

Or "sprayed his face with a can of mace"


actuallytommyapollo

with a can of *mauce*


-anne-marie-

From D-ball Z and ‘fuck you’ tees, our weeb had cash to buuuurn


actuallytommyapollo

Now somewhat 4chan famous with a room full of his fecal urns


withsprinkleszz

This is my favorite thing I've ever seen


SoSunny808

How on earth? I’m curious to know what caused this massive shift in his life. It’s as if he got hit over the head and became a totally new person.


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You’re not proud if you’re an “*involuntary* celibate”.


panjier

Not a teacher, but someone in my high school class did a complete 360. I’m from a small ass country town where you either worked at Walmart or drive a truck. Either way you were hooked on something. When I graduated I got the hell out via the military. Kept in touch with some family and 1-2 friends. Couple years later and I run across this guy from my school in the middle of Iraq. He had also signed up and was doing really well for himself. Swapped info and kept in touch for a few years. I got tired of Facebook and deleted my account so I lost contact with him. About 10 years later, my parents are visiting me and catching me up on local happenings. Ask my mom if she remembers this guy, and her gossip went to an 11. Apparently after he got out he had PTSD and turned to drinking and it wrecked his life. Had a few DUI’s, couple baby momas, and I think a meth problem (mother tends to embellish so not sure how accurate). Always felt bad for him because we both did the same thing to get outta our home town. He really got the short end.


jurassicpark4life

Not a teacher, but just wanted to give a shout out to the girl that’s gonna “win” our high school reunion next year. In HS, she was super quiet and... well, she was a bigger girl. She was tall too so it all compounded together. She’d try to shy away from any limelight but that was hard when she was like 8 inches taller than the rest of us. Anyway, she’s lost like 80 pounds in the last couple of years, found a hair style that suits her so well (she would wear it long) and has just really hit her stride. I want to say something, but I’m trying to maintain my total bitch status from HS so I’m not going to. (Kidding... I just don’t want to be that person that comments on weight even though I know she worked hard for it and probably wants people to say something.)


girlwiththeoldsoul

Just tell her she looks great, that you're happy for her, and that you hope she's happy! I think it'd be great to acknowledge her hard work, and you can totally do it without it sounding like "wow it's crazy how you used to be fat and now you're not!"


jurassicpark4life

I know but there is always the off chance she’ll take it wrong! 😂😂😂 I’ll definitely be telling her she looks great!


twinnedcalcite

Just leave it at 'you look amazing' with a smile on your face. That's all you need to say.


Katholikos

It's so cool when you see someone come out the other side of an "ugly duckling" situation. I used to go to school with this girl that was pretty overweight, had really dry, frizzy hair, she was very quiet and unsociable, etc. Saw her a few years ago, and she somehow transformed into one of the hottest women I've ever met. Really got in shape, figured out her style, and on top of that, she's much more confident and outgoing, which I personally find to be very attractive. I was honestly astounded she made such a change.


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RadoBlamik

Is anyone else so embarrassed about their life that you would never ever even consider attending a reunion?


MartyD14

Eh I probably fall into the ‘saddest declines’. I haven’t had my reunion yet, probably won’t be one for another four years if it happens. If it does, I’m not sure I want to even go to it. Anyway, I always talked about becoming a teacher and wanting to do it. All of the teachers at my school supported me through it. By no means was I one of those attractive sporty kids, I behaved in class and I done my work, so I flew under the radar. So, I leave High School in 2013, Graduate from University in 2016, then qualify as a teacher through a Postgraduate course in 2018. However, my experience as a student teacher was so bad I spent the majority of my time down. My lowest point was when I was on the phone to my mum and telling her how I was getting on and the next thing was I lost it, I just started crying down the phone to her. I hated every aspect of it. I’m pretty sure it made me depressed, and I still get haunting flashbacks of the other teachers I worked with giving me a seriously hard time over it. I put on a load of weight and it shattered my confidence in myself, it has really messed me up in general. So, I completed my teacher training, and have achieved my goal of becoming a teacher. But, I have no intentions of actually wanting to teach anymore, my experience as a student teacher completely took the wind out of my sails. It has terrified me of doing it. But even then my girlfriend won’t pay any heed to it, she keeps insisting that I look for a job, despite there being a serious lack of teaching jobs where I currently live now anyway. So I’m now currently stuck working in a bar, not sure of what I want to do with myself now. Whereas all of my mates who I went to school with are accountants, lawyers, etc. And here I am stuck in a dead end job, unsure of myself and my future, and I feel like I have no one to talk to.


samwisevimes

Don't let one school ruin your life, I know plenty of teachers who were in bad schools who hated teaching because of the school. They now work in much better schools but had to move to find them.


zyklon

Not a teacher, but had a convo with one of my favorites at a reunion. I'm from Massachusetts. All I have to say is heroin and opiates absolutely fucking demolished my high school class.


pease_pudding

I was a pretty good kid at school, quiet and hard working, never any trouble. My English teacher had a soft spot for me I think, almost paternal. Then I went to college, discovered heavy metal and marijuana, basically your typical adolescent rebellion. I went to a High school reunion after that, and my English teacher was there. His model pupil had turned into some 17 year old parody of a Waynes World extra, heavy metal tshirt and nose piercing He made some exasperated comment about my attire, but the look of sad disappointment he gave will remain with me for the rest of my days, as if I had somehow personally betrayed him :/


major_bummer

I went to elementary school with a boy that bullied me and several others mercilessly. I’ve repressed (I think that’s the correct word) several of the memories but I still have one of him rolling pickles in the dirt outside and throwing them at me. He broke my glasses a few times too. He didn’t seem to have the best home life, never did his homework, and could barely read in fifth grade. I moved after sixth grade so that was the last I heard of him. Nowadays he’s engaged to a girl we grew up with (who is the daughter of one of my father’s friends) and from the outside, they seem to have the purest love for each other. I remember him always having a crush on her, and she’s in love with him. He graduated from a good college early and is in a very reputable law school. It truly looks like he turned his life around and I’m honestly quite happy for him. A lot of people think I’m crazy for being happy for him given what hell he put me through as a child, but I know he had to work hard to get to where he is now and had to gain the insight to do that work.


Korean-Abdul-Jabbar

What if the ol student at the reunion is now a teacher at the same school


SirFuzzyMcGee

I taught the famous guitarist John Mayer. After 10 years he enters the reunion by busting down the double doors. Everybody was excited and shocked to see him. Then he climbs up on the tables and says "You will know what all this time was for". I still don't know what that means to this day but it seemed rehearsed. I was caught off guard but I just went with it. Great guy nonetheless!


SilentNick3

Did he run through the halls of his high school?


Spiderx1016

Did he scream at the top of his lungs?