Ordinary Banana

the ones that do drugs and smoke cigarettes and skip class maybe?

those who really made a habit of it were trashy. visited milieuXfriend's apt complex, her 7yo brother is smoking in front of the mom. most students were richer. differentiator is attendance. normal kids do drugs and skip class sometimes. rich kids doing blow &c aren't "bad"

like, the skateboarders who kinda dropped in attendance and then OD'd on (probs fentanyl-)heroin, I don't think anyone thought of them as bad kids? they were on a continuum with and shared friends with the good kids with good grades etc.

my high school experience was very different from the standard I see on Twitter which describes school as literal torture prison etc, but maybe they're thinking of elementary and middle school more, idk

yeah I don’t think it’s a standard thing, except that some version of it seems really common

the naughtiest 5% is going to vary substantially between ecosystems

I was wondering how common the nerd-bad kid alliance/crossover was

with few exceptions I saw no friendships between nerds and bad kids. totally different zones of experience. basically just me, I talked to whoever. oh and Chels, who lived five houses down.