#22, for your favorites?
Oooh! Okay! Let’s do Lenn, Harvey, Janice, Tabitha, Sheree, John and Luanda. I have a lot of favorites. Ooops.
What kind of student were they/would they be in high school?
(I got a bit rambly, so it’s under the cut here.)
Lenn would be a very good student - and he’d get around 100% on just about everything in every subject. However, he’d have a tendency to turn everything in late, which would lower his overall grade via deducted points because of it. He’d try to do things quicker, but he’d end up dissastisfied with the quality of it and his grade would end up lowering because of it anyway. Average grade: B- , has a tendency to forget content as soon as he doesn’t need it anymore. Socially, he’d be the nerd kid who everyone ends up bribing to do their homework for them, and end up becoming a tattle-tale to the teacher by informing them of who was trying to cheat.
Harvey would be mediocore - about a C - but would get straight A’s if he chose to apply himself. It would really depend on how much he cared and what was happening outside of school. If there was something more important - a cute boy, possibly a cute girl, a party, conflict at home - he’d devote his energy to that instead and use whatever’s leftover to work on school. It would take him a lot of energy to work past that and forget about whatever he would be preoccupied by. Interestingly, he would know the material well regardless of work he’d put into doing the work. As for socially - he’d be the Cool Popular Guy everyone wants to be friends with.
Janice.. good student. VERY good student. A+ everything, really nerdy, always in school, always prepared, reads textbooks for fun, always working on.. something, anything. Probably has one, maybe two after-school clubs or such she attends to religiously. Her social life would take a hit, though - but she wouldn’t mind that much.. her only friends would be the people she sits next to in class, and those she saw after school for whatever reason.
Tabitha.. yikes.. not that great.. she’d do terribly in her studies. And it’s not because she doesn’t care - she just has trouble focusing and applying herself and would get caught up in whatever is going on. With an adult around who would be willing to stand over her and guide her into better behaviors, she’d do fine, but without - probably a C - D student. She’d have trouble absorbing content in class because the person behind her is tapping their pen too much or this One Person She Dislikes is glaring at her in the middle of class and she wants to smash their face in. And then she’d regret acting like that and burn out trying too hard to fix it. Socially, prone to fights with people, but fiercely loyal to those in her in-group and willing to do just about anything to support them in whatever it is.
Sheree.. would be really normal? Normal grades, normal study habits, not bad but not particularly good either. Is part of a healthy friend group, has a high school sweetheart, goes to prom and homecoming unironically. Probably in a team sport of some kind, and does very well there, to the point where people accuse of her of being ‘too much like a boy’ because she’s just that good.
John. This one is fun. Class clown, but really shitty grades, and doesn’t do shit to change them even while the adults try to motivate him to do better. Doesn’t know most of the content and probably failed an entire grade. To him school is more about fooling around with his classmates than it is about learning. If he chose classmates as friends that were academically minded tho, and learning could be turned into a social occasion, he’d do fine (but wouldn’t be able to study in classes where that motivation didn’t exist - as in, where those friends were not present. Anywhere from F-B in terms of grades. Would get an A+ in art class and music class regardless of the above, and would probably be one of the art/band teacher’s favorite students.
Luanda.. hit or miss? She’d be normal, I guess, like Sheree - but less ‘idyllic’. She’d have normal grades, but she’d write about strange things or do things oddly. She’d study using ways the teacher doesn’t suggest because it’s easier that way for her (teacher says index flash cards? how about lined paper instead, yeah, that works). She’d have a good friend group, except for the fact that there’s in-fighting that people get over quickly. She’d have a high school sweetheart, but she’d get knocked up senior year and end up married young (everything would work out fine for them, however). Not engaged in sports, but spends time on creative endeavors instead (Art club?). In other words, she does things a bit sideways, but she always makes it work - despite what people might have to say about her methods. “Fuck them.”