The whole school was pretty completely segregated between the gifted classes and regular, so I guess his intention was to have something to bring us all together for once or something? It definitely wound up playing right into the smart vs athletic thing which rightfully pissed off the kids who hadn't gotten into the gifted stuff because in addition to tests there was a lottery/chance component to the selections, as well as the kids who had gotten into the gifted classes and didn't want to be typecast as unathletic nerds. iirc the basketball game itself was close as hell too and there was some shoddy refereeing that pissed people off too lol.
also the principal was an ex-marine who constantly brought that up and would give these long impassioned speeches about dumbass school slogans like "Failure is not an option"... (which is hilarious at a school where failure is very much an option lol)
I was thinking about that on my last comment.... I'm having a really hard time remembering, I think it was either the regular kids won and that was when everything popped off, or everything popped off after the regular kids took the lead right before the end of the game. But I do remember that it wasn't because the gifted kids won.
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The whole school was pretty completely segregated between the gifted classes and regular, so I guess his intention was to have something to bring us all together for once or something? It definitely wound up playing right into the smart vs athletic thing which rightfully pissed off the kids who hadn't gotten into the gifted stuff because in addition to tests there was a lottery/chance component to the selections, as well as the kids who had gotten into the gifted classes and didn't want to be typecast as unathletic nerds. iirc the basketball game itself was close as hell too and there was some shoddy refereeing that pissed people off too lol.
also the principal was an ex-marine who constantly brought that up and would give these long impassioned speeches about dumbass school slogans like "Failure is not an option"... (which is hilarious at a school where failure is very much an option lol)
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I was thinking about that on my last comment.... I'm having a really hard time remembering, I think it was either the regular kids won and that was when everything popped off, or everything popped off after the regular kids took the lead right before the end of the game. But I do remember that it wasn't because the gifted kids won.
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