I hated high school. It was a blur. I was truly depressed throughout high school.
Folks snorted cocaine and crystal-meth, my school had a smoking section, on Fridays, everybody could go off campus and eat lunch--some had liquid lunches...
My school got busted by a Narc for drugs in 1984.
We were called Patrick Henry Patriots. The statue of Patrick Henry was either painted in polka-dots or all out stolen and replaced with the "Bob", from "Bob's Big Boy".
Everyone smoked weed...
Both my junior and senior years, I had ragers at my parents house... Sold tixs to one of them... Had the "Essai's" as bouncers at one of them and 2 D.J.'s...
The administrators and parents told us that students could not enter prom if drunk... But folks just said, "Well, I'll be high..."
So to say if there was a popularity scheme to all of this???
I would have to go back to a reunion 20-30 years later and see who is still living and who died...
But with the folks I have kept up with over the years, we made it through...