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My school was putting together a 10 year reunion, and it was cancelled because only 13 people out of 303 graduates replied. In other words, little more than the planning committee and their immediate social circle.
Location: Huntersville/Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC
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I made the comment that HS reunions are going the way of the dodo bird because I know many people who graduated high school between 2000-2009 whose classes did not have 10 or 15 year reunions.
I didn’t miss a major point, it just isn’t a point typically applicable to people under 40.
Yes, I have made up my mind that I’m not going if my class ever has a reunion, but I doubt my class ever will.
Agreed. Also with the times today, many are moving farther away from home due to work. The majority of my graduating class from my SE Virginia HS don’t live with two hours of the area currently. They have too many priorities and bills to be bothered with a reunion.
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Agreed. Also with the times today, many are moving farther away from home due to work. The majority of my graduating class from my SE Virginia HS don’t live with two hours of the area.
People fly home to be with family & friends....why can't they fly home for a reunion? A N D...IMO the majority stays living in the same area even if they are not in the same town.
Agreed. Also with the times today, many are moving farther away from home due to work. The majority of my graduating class from my SE Virginia HS don’t live with two hours of the area currently. They have too many priorities and bills to be bothered with a reunion.
Small town and rural America is dying. With the Millennial generation, the Millennials that grew up in areas of less than 100,000 typically moved away to more populous areas.
I have too many priorities to be bothered with a reunion.
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My school was putting together a 10 year reunion, and it was cancelled because only 13 people out of 303 graduates replied. In other words, little more than the planning committee and their immediate social circle.
I'm hearing those sorts of stories commonly from 2000-2009 high school graduates.
Location: Huntersville/Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC
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People fly home to be with family & friends....why can't they fly home for a reunion? A N D...IMO the majority stays living in the same area even if they are not in the same town.
People CAN do anything. WILL they is the question. And by and large all evidence is pointing to NO for my age group. Hell I live 15 minutes from my second HS and most from that school stayed close because this is a good job area and they couldn’t even get enough interested people from a class of 600+ to have a reunion.
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People CAN do anything. WILL they is the question. And by and large all evidence is pointing to NO for my age group. Hell I live 15 minutes from my second HS and most from that school stayed close because this is a good job area and they couldn’t even get enough interested people from a class of 600+ to have a reunion.
Lack of interest tho is not the same as just not bothering to have one........shrugs. They still get planned even if they don't have a good turnout. About half showed up at my 10 yr reunion but I am ita that the older people get.........the less likely they may care & more likely to have left the area. I dunno how I'll feel when my 20 yr. comes around.....BUT I'm still going to stay in touch with friends from high school & college either way..................
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Lack of interest tho is not the same as just not bothering to have one........shrugs. They still get planned even if they don't have a good turnout. About half showed up at my 10 yr reunion but I am ita that the older people get.........the less likely they may care & more likely to have left the area. I dunno how I'll feel when my 20 yr. comes around.....BUT I'm still going to stay in touch with friends from high school & college either way..................
My schools didn’t bother to have one BECAUSE of the lack of interest. A dealbreaker when you have to plan a reunion and start actually putting down deposits and pay for crap.
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My schools didn’t bother to have one BECAUSE of the lack of interest. A dealbreaker when you have to plan a reunion and start actually putting down deposits and pay for crap.
They had to have started to plan it in order to know there wasn't enough interest tho.......
I've never been to a class reunion and have no plans to go. That would necessitate returning to the small town I grew up in and it gives me a feeling of dread. All of my remaining family is there.
Something happened during my junior year that I've never been able to talk about. But there was gossip about it at school, I overheard it. Which meant it spread like poison ivy.
In small towns, nobody ever forgets.
During one of my husband's class reunions when he was about fifty he went back to his small hometown. An older man came up to him on the street and said, "Hey, aren't you the kid who raced down main street one night and ran into the sale barn?" (Caused a lot of damage.)
He came home shaking his head. "They'll never let me live that down."
There are really only 2 reasons to go to a high school reunion.
1. You were popular in high school and wish to re-live your glory days.
2. You were a pathetic loser in high school who became successful and/or better looking and you wish to shove it in everyone's face.
Yes, exactly. And I can't imagine anyone in category #2 actually wanting to come to a reunion, but if they do, more power to them. So high school reunions basically end up being a mutual admiration club for people in category #1. That is, for the aged popular kids to pat each other on the back, regardless of whether they now work as a CEO or an Uber driver.
I fit into neither category. I basically viewed high school as a prison sentence, for the crime of being young. So all I wanted to was serve my time, make a few friends with decent fellow inmates, avoid the shady ones, stay out of the correctional officers' watchful eye, and learn a thing or two along the way. The ridiculously tight security made the dark-humored analogy all too true.
Not to mention, all the popular kids at my high school kind of looked the same: Abercrombie & Fitch shirt, Eastpak backpack, and a Honda Accord. I can just look at those in the street, without spending time and money. (Well, except A&F; I'm glad that brand is a has-been.)
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A dealbreaker when you have to plan a reunion and start actually putting down deposits and pay for crap.
