KT67 wrote:
That was a really bad school all round.
Seemed like it was preparing kids for a life in the underclass rather than working class life or anything else.
You had to be in a gang. If you weren't in a gang, if you never carried a knife, you were a target of bullies.
And I enjoyed dancing at my old school. Country dancing. And I'd done line dancing before and ballet. So I signed up to do dance as my art module. I had to shift to drama cos all the girls (it was only girls) in the class apart from me were doing as provocative dances as possible. We were 15/16.
But I do get the idea of prepping kids in life in certain ways of living.
Though, that involves nationwide conspiracies than the individual's social hierarchy around here. The latter can always change.
I mean come on -- how else the majority of people here remain 'poor'?
Where
anyone can be victims, seem to be in equal footing except their luck and mindsets?
I have mixed feelings of gangs.
Both those who serve the community and those who wreck them, and the huge blur in between.
Tis not about if you're in them or not, but their idea of you -- or relations towards them.
Perhaps the huge difference in how a culture treats their loners?
Because people here can just appear alone... Only to find a huge army behind them.
And if a person hangs out alone and is truly alone... They tend to drag them in. Or worse, crowd around them.
It depends on the nature or purpose of the circumstances.
I missed dancing. Though, I'd rather practice in secret as well.
It's been very long since I ever did it seriously.
I'd still feel awkward if someone had to coax me though. It shows more of how I control my emotions and thought than my physical skills.