The thing about popularity at my school was this...It was all well and good for stuff like Homecoming Queen and Senior Class President, but I quickly learned that the teachers at my school really had the power, and the better you were in with the administration, the better off you were! I was in the "smart" group (AP classes, Honor Society stuff), but the teachers all liked me (I was a bit of a kiss ass!), so I got away with all sorts of stuff (Boys State, Outstanding Senior, Yearbook Editor-all the stuff that students had no control over). But I was also able to get elected to stuff like Student Council Vice-President (what a joke office-did ANYBODY'S Student Council ever do anything memorable???). So high school for me served only one purpose-to get me the college acceptances that I wanted! Basically, the smart crowd was pretty small at my school, and we were the elitist ones-our classes were smaller, and we all knew each other pretty well, so we just laughed at the jocks and the cheerleaders and all those who thought that they were in control. In our yearbook, it was OUR candid pictures that were all over the book, not the so called "rulers"!!!
Jeanne Garafalo in "Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion"-that's how we were about the "popular" crowd!
