High School

Dear Shrewsbury, New Jersey Board of Education

I’m sorry for vandalizing your schoolhouse.

This happened in 1985, when I was a freshman at Red Bank Regional High School. Red Bank Regional as you know, draws from the towns of Shrewsbury, Red Bank, Union Beach and Little…

How Much Of Life Can You Still Blame On High School?

“Today, we also live in an age when our reputation is at the mercy of people we barely know, just as it was back in high school, for the simple reason that we lead much more public, interconnected lives. The prospect of sudden humiliation…

The Scariest High School Elective Ever

Criminology was taught by one Buddy Longo, a figure of legend around the halls of SHHS. I…

Reaction To Odd Future Mixed, Young Journalist Reports

I Can’t Believe You Narc’ed Us Out, Dork

I can’t believe you did that, Bobby. I thought you were cool. But you know what? You’re not cool. Not at all. You know what you are? You’re a narc. And a social reject. You think you’re all big now? Because you wrote a paper in the The American Sociological…

Little Silver, “Where We Met”

Wildly Segregated High School to Try Something Radical

Since at least the 1980s, Evanston Township High School — the only (and extremely large) high school serving the suburb directly north of Chicago — has been both incredibly diverse and incredibly two-tracked. There was a lunch…

America’s High Schools Still Top Producers of Violent YouTube Content

Jersey Mayhem: When You Read in the Paper about Someone You Remember from High School

Fall of 1985, my freshman year at Red Bank Regional high school, there was a kid whose locker was down the hall from mine who came to school dressed in ill-fitting clothes that had…