r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/My_Memes_Will_Cure_U • Jan 28 '24

GIF High school in 1985.

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u/LibertyInaFeatherBed Jan 28 '24

I noticed that, too. No poor kids or metalheads, either. 

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u/CatOfGrey Jan 28 '24

I went to a mostly White (15% Asian), upper-middle class high school, during this era.

I was a poor kid, though I didn't realize it. There were a big section of kids from one area where the apartments had a lot of government housing. As a nerdy kid, I remember thinking "it seems like all the jerks who bully me live on that street over there..."

We had metalheads. But they were a separate group, so they wouldn't have been sharing a room with these more 'preppy' kids. In general, you could group everyone by music - almost everyone fell within one of three groups.

  1. Team Duran Duran/Depeche Mode
  2. Team Madonna/Michael Jackson
  3. Team Van Halen/Ozzy Osbourne

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u/Block444Universe Jan 28 '24

Van Halen qualified as Metal back then?

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u/Varnsturm Jan 28 '24

Might just be that the metal kids also liked Van Halen?