[GH85Carrera]

I was an Air Force brat and changed schools all the time so I did not have any friends I had known for more than months. My parents had friends from birth to death, that part is alien to me.

8th grade was the worst. I was 50% of the Haole (Caucasian) population at the Wiapau, school in Hawaii. I had several mokes that loved to torment me. Not even Chuck Norris as an 8th grader can whip and entire school of kids and some of them were the BIG Samoan boys. Every Friday was "kill Haole" day and since there was only one other Haole in the school I had to run a lot. There was only one teacher on campus that would stop the abuse. That teacher had to beat up one Samoan kid when he saved me from a pounding. The principal just wanted to ignore the problem and she would not do anything.

I was thrilled that we got to move on base to Hickam AFB and we went to Radford High school the next year and the population was 50-50 with white kids so the local boys could not torment the white kids.

Then we moved to Montgomery, AL and the school I went to was 75% black. I became the photographer for the newspaper and the yearbook and every kid in school wanted me to take their picture and get them in the yearbook or the newspaper.

Of course once again I was the Glen the new kid as a Junior. That is the only school I got to go to for two years in a row since the first grade.

So to answer the original question, I hated Freshman class, Sophomore class was OK and as a Junior and Senior it was OK.