Of all the people you knew in high school, whom you know now, what % would you say have changed?

[patrice]

Of all of the people you personally knew in high school, whom you know now, or have met since . . .

what percentage of them you would say have CHANGED, in personality, MORE THAN THEY HAVE REMAINED THE SAME?

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	25% have changed significantly since high school;
	0 (0%)
	50% have changed significantly since high school;
	1 (50%)
	75% have changed significantly since high school;
	0 (0%)
	100% have changed significantly since high school.
	1 (50%)
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[elleng]

1. Ask me in October, after 50th H.S. reunion!

[patrice]

2. Have fun! And bring back some stories!

[elleng]

3. Bet on it!

[ellisonz]

4. Where is the 0% have changed option?

[patrice]

5. Sorry, I remembered that after I posted and didn't see how to edit it, without disturbing the votes

that were already there.

But, you're right that really should be in the choices!

I hope people think about degrees of change in a person and also significance of change, when they try to answer this poll. You can have a few profound things change or lots of insignificant change, so it's kind of a bogus question, but good at least to try to think about this subject.

[tabbycat31]

6. I refuse to speak to anyone from my high school (in my class)

They were downright nasty to me and made my life a living hell. Someone from my HS class told my mom (on a train) about the 10 year reunion and my mom had to find a polite way to tell her that I could not be paid to go to it.

[cherokeeprogressive]

7. Almost 35 years later, my clique is still an intact and growing family. 0% change.

I consider my life to have been blessed for that fact.

Counting friends, their kids and their grandkids, we've had camping trips with nearly 60 people. In order to get spots in CA state parks, we have to plan waaaay ahead because we need 6-8 spots near each other.

One year we rented 5 houseboats for a week on Lake Mead outside of Las Vegas. It was epic. The sight of 5 houseboats surrounded by seadoos, jetskis, and boats was awesome. Given the ethnic makeup of my group we could have been described as a modern day Spanish Armada.

[pinboy3niner]

8. After more than four decades, little, if any, change in classmates I know

The "hippie" couple is still the same. In HS, Bruce spent a summer vacation working with Ceasar Chavez in the fields. When we reconnected, they were running a small independent, progressive newspaper, and still politically active.

Another of my closest HS friends also was political. He carried a briefcase to school, and during the debate over abortion rights, he got called in to the principal's office for having a bright orange 'LEGALIZE ABORTION' sticker on his briefcase. When I recently reconnected with him, I learned that he's teaching philosophy in college (not a surprise, for him). What's funny is that his dad was an accountant for the mob at La Costa Country Club in La Jolla, CA, and when we went down there a couple of times in HS, we got anything we wanted for free.

One classmate, Steve, turned out to be pretty RW, but I didn't know about his politics in HS. We reconnected only a couple of years ago, and as he's an exec in a company near me, we've gotten together a couple of times--and when he sends me those viral wingnut emails, I always reply with a debunking from snopes or another fact check site.

Steve is a VN Era vet, and he's very supportive of the vet projects I'm involved in, as well as our local food bank. We're both friends of the director there, and we get along fine in spite of our political differences.

John is the one that I assumed would be very RW because his dad was a top accountant (and I think a VP) at Price Waterhouse. I remember the huge new house he moved to in HS (and dinner there may have been the first time I tasted real butter). I do remember John visiting me and bringing me books at an Army hospital in SF after I was wounded in VN--something i'll never forget.

But when John and I reconnected, I learned that he was very anti-GWB and anti-Iraq War. And John also was a VN Era vet, having served as a Navy Officer. He always was extremely bright, was on our HS Knowledge Bowl team and won a National Merit Scholarship to Harvard. But John didn't change. It was my assumptions that were off.

These are a few examples of friends who didn't change--either in outlook or personality. The most dramatic change in a classmate was physical--someone who went through a terrible car accident and survived, though it took 2-3 years for her to walk again. She ended up marrying her neurosurgeon, and is among the happiest people I know. If anything, she's an even more loving person than she was before.

I'm sure that some classmates have changed since HS, but the overwhelming majority of those I know have not changed at all.

And I think it's clear that RMoney hasn't changed his stripes, either.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. I'm not really in touch with any high school acquaintances

except my husband and his sister. He hasn't changed; she has. I did a lot of school-changing as a kid, 11 schools in 12 years, so I don't have bonds with people from that far back. Plus, it's been 48 years since I graduated, and I have no interest in going back to Texas to see anyone.