Re:Helpful? (Score 1)

no. you mean anyone who doesn't go into highschool willing to submit themselves to bullies has a hard time. you said it yourself: to avoid a beating, join a sports team and work on your car. act the way the bullies like and no one gets hurt.

That's Just silly. I graduated 12th in my class of over 350, played saxophone in the marching band and jazz band, never played sports, was overweight, and was never once beat up. It just takes some social skills. The majority of my friends were also "nerds" to some extent, but we traveled in a relatively wide social circle. I was on relatively good terms with everyone in my grade, mostly because I learned how to talk to people. Just because computers, or D&D, or anything else interests you, doesn't mean it will interest everyone. There are certain conversations you can have with just about anyone: music, homework, whatever common ground you can find. I find it hard to believe that the jocks at everyone's HS were so completely "alien" as to have absolutely nothing in common with any of you. Things like this really go to prove that social skills are simply nto stressed nearly enough in our everyday interaction. Things that can't be learned by reading a book or doing examples on a blackboard are often shoved out of the way in favor of some boring lesson to improve scores on one standardized test or another.