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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]People smoked in bathrooms when I was in HS in the 90s.[/b]  This is not new.  I have not heard of bathroom hookups, but stuff definitely happened back then, so I assume it would now. It's not an APS thing.  It's a HS thing.[/quote]

I think there was a mid-90s sitcom called My So Called Life (or maybe it was Parker Lewis?) that looked at the dark underbelly of the typical American public high school of that era between Gen X and Millennial. It might be amusing to watch today for social anthropology reasons, like smoking in the bathroom, etc. That era (of most of us parents) was not so innocent. Our expectation of a drug and alcohol free high school experience for the current generation is probably a bit unrealistic. [/quote]
Sometimes I wonder if the people who frequent this forum I have really bad memories were completely clueless, dorks or just grew up in a highly sheltered environment. [/quote]

I was definitely a dork but I used the bathrooms without worrying about running into a drug user. They did that nonsense under the bleachers. [/quote]

APS high school bathrooms in the 90s had a Dangerous Minds the movie aesthetic. Very run down and the plumbing often didn’t work. Only the girls bathrooms had actual stalls for privacy. They often reeked of stink bombs. Not weed or smoking, but stink bombs. Friends at Montgomery Blair, Wilson, and BCC often complained of similarly run down conditions, and stink bombs.

And drug and alcohol use was very widespread. The 90s were the first generation of kids with the higher drinking age (from 18 to 21) and the drinking culture was still alive and well in all the public and private schools.

If anything the problems with alcohol are probably reduced today. But weed use is definitely up. And it is much more potent (and thus potentially dangerous) today. [/quote]

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