Even just including 9th and 10th grade (I didn't continue high school after that, which isn't to say I was no longer being educated), there are many changes.
I'll include A for grade 9, and B for grade 10
1. What kind of crowd did you hang with?
A. Thrashers (skateboarders), though I also had a few other friends (like one who shared my love of fantasy lit who lived near me and we rode the same bus, as just one example)
B. We didn't have a name as far as I know, but were probably considered the Juvies (delinquents), and there were some goth leaning aspects to us, generally speaking. We all were in a special class called ABC (Adaptive Behavior Class) for those with behavioral problems, most of us having been in trouble with the law at one point or another.
2. Were you studious or a slacker?
A, B the academic aspects of school were all too easy for me (and were for many in the special class I was put into the following year), and I was generally an A-B student without even trying. One thing I liked about In School Suspension was that I got the assignments for the week at the start of the week and finished them in one or 2 days and used the rest of the time to read and write for fun.
3. Join any clubs?
A, B No (it wouldn't have been allowed in ABC anyway)
4. Which teacher did you absolutely loathe with a passion?
A. I don't recall liking or hating any teachers of this year.
B. It's a tie between one especially Dolores Umbridge type teacher, and a male substitute (though I was actually more amused rather than intimidated the one time he threw a chair against the wall as he yelled how he hated all of us, and how terrible our futures would be).
5. Ever get detention?
A. I don't recall getting any that year, though I got plenty of such actions in previous years (In School Suspension and the like)
B. ABC was essentially In School Suspension in which we did not interact with the rest of the school (save coming and going) and our lunch period was in between the lunch periods (like those in In School Suspension), though once it was funny in that all but one of us who showed up to ABC one day were put in ISS the next, and ISS forbid kids from interacting with even other kids in ISS, let alone between ISS and ABC (to the point that they came down hard on those who even waved at each other).
6. Were you a frequent ditcher?
No
7. Your thoughts on cheerleaders?
Our cheerleaders and jocks were toxic, worse than those shown on Buffy (and just as spoiled by faculty, arguably more so since their stunts were worse which the faculty winked at), so I hated them at the time. I realize now that they're not so bad at other schools, generally speaking.
8. What was your wardrobe like?
A, B: I guess hodgepodge, though I passed it off as grunge (style), which the flannel shirts and tennis shoes seemed to fit with. There was a lot that Granny got me, supplemented by clothes from thrift stores, and even oversized shirts (which I loved) that a friend gave me from her own stuff. I'd learned to sew so I could alter or patch them as I desired, which kinda hid how used they were. I had a pair of cargo pants that I liked, but I don't recall wearing those to school, it was mostly bluejeans, or black jeans...I wrote all over some jeans with highlighter once that got me sent home to change, though it was nothing obscene. I was more likely to wear striped arm wraps (they protected my arms when I fell) in the first year and more black the second. I was big on wearing bandannas back then, but they weren't allowed in school.
9. Ever forge your parents' signature on a report card, principal's note, etc?
Yes, but usually just to skip bothering them (and myself). It's not like the school faculty cared.
10. Can you remember your locker combination?
No.
11. How many times did you avoid gym class?
Never (but there was no gym class for those in ABC)
12. Favourite meal in the cafeteria?
Ick, caf food. Even the pizza at the snack bar tasted like greasy cardboard. I was big with the PBJs from home back then.
13. Who was your big crush?
Didn't have one either year.
