The class question

These two guys next to me in the hallway were talking, and this third guy comes over and asks 'what are you guys talking about?'. The first two turn to him and one of them says, 'what gives you the right to butt into our conversation?' to which he replies stiffly 'I'm in you class, aren't I?"

Cuz y'know, if he weren't in their class, then it would be a totally justified question, right? I mean, it's a stupid question and it's a stupid answer. 'Because I'm a person,' maybe, not just 'cuz I'm in your class'.

Another time a friend of mine was reading a book, and a classmate comes over and starts bugging him. First guy tells him to get lost, he keeps it up, and so the guy puts down his book and puts the guy in a headlock. The guy immiedietly starts yelling for him to get off. So he releases the headlock, and the guy starts shouting, "What the heck is your problem!? I'm IN YOUR CLASS! You dont put people IN YOUR CLASS in a headlock!!"

So here's my question: What's with this whole class thing? Last year (7th grade) people didn't care what class you were in, if you bothered someone, classmate or not, you knew you were gonna get it, and if you were asked what gave you the right to talk to a guy you wouldn't choose 'I'm in your class' over 'I'm a human being'.

People seem to come to Yeshiva with this preconception. I dont see it with the Sophomores or Juniors or whatever. Just with my Freshmen class. They seem to assume their is this special bond between us: we are classmates. And therefore everyone can do whatever they want to everybody else and we understand because were classmates, right?

Where does this come from? How do people get this idea?

Well, I've got news for anybody who happens to be reading this:

I THINK I MIGHT HAVE AN ANSWER!!!

I skipped eighth grade, so I dont know what it's like, but everybody else goes through eighth grade first. It's supposed to be a really awesome year. You and the freinds you've known for ten years working together to raise money so you can go on a special class trip. And in eighth grade you know after this year your friends are going split up possibly forever. So everybody knows everybody very well, and everybody gets along and I guess maybe they have the 'classmate' bond.

And then after that you are thrust head first into Freshmen year. Dump a bunch of teenagers form all over the country into a building and hope they get along. I guess people have gotten to used to having that class bond, and maybe dont really realize that their new class is made up of complete strangers and that if you tick somebody off, you're not going to have anything to protect you.

so here's the real question: if I had a question AND an answer, why did I bother posting??

Yup. I did it so Fudge wouldnt nag me.

so here you go.