School B.Day Celebrations

[kandrathe]

Just another day at school.

That's the way it worked at my school too. If anyone did know somebodies birthday, nobody cared except for the person's friends. My birthday is in January though, so always fell during the summer holidays.

Same for me. Birthday's were not publicized, and you usually didn't advertise them except to your close friends.

Although the getting beat up thing was also just a normal daily function. In 5th grade (my first year at the new school) I remember out of 200 days, successfully avoiding the gang of bullies and making the run for the bus at the end of school about 1/2 the time. Of the remaining 100 days, I avoided a scuffle about 2/3rds of the time and was merely verbally humiliated. the other 30 days I got a beating by a group of thugs.