Frank Kogan

A certain amount of misbehaviour = TOP OF SOCIAL TREE in my school; chatback to teachers, affecting disinterest in work, drinking and so on. Not so much as to be a total burnout though - there weren't many of these, in fact I can't remember any. I guess there were a couple who affected to be more fucked up than they were.

The existence of boarders meant that school activities were neither here nor there when it came to coolness.

From Y7 to Y9 all the cool kids did sport. GCSE years were a strange transition into the 6th form, where only a minority did, and where it was irrelevant to your cool status. (6th form is when all the rich local farmers' kids left b/c they were thick, and when loads of musicians on scholarships joined, so the musicians stopped being one weird class out of four who didn't do the same lessons as anyone else, and started being over half the year.)