SomervilleHigh 1983

these videos always make me cry as someone who's growing up now (i'm 15 lol). idk why but it hits me hard for some reason, knowing that everyone who were teens in the 80s are around 50 now, and soon enough these videos will be made about my generation. i'm not very popular at my highschool, i only have one real friend there, but i know when i'm older i'm going to look back on my teen years with nostalgia. it's scary to think about that. but when i watch these videos of people who were once just like me - insecure, feeling misunderstood afraid to grow up - it makes me think everything's going to be okay.

I was 17 in 83 . I was one of them. Lucky to have graduated. I attended a community college for 4 years after high school. It was very beneficial. It was like learning everything that I missed.

These people are 58 years old now... Time is unreal for the human mind to comprehend. "If we all knew what we all know in our last days, we would live our life and love people so much better"

The 80's just started warming up then.

I'm the class of 1983 and I agree our parents got a better education than we did in school. The hygiene was better and manners were better and classrooms were in control. Nowadays, kids have it easier than we did doing assignments on their laptops but schools are out of control with all the social media going on today.

it's crazy how much a school can change in 40 years.

I wanna jump into this video and tell them about the future

16 in 83. New drivers license , bought my 1st Harley. And Dad was paying all the bills. 4 kids and retired now. Peace to my 80's brothers and sisters....

80’s music and movies are still legendary

Watching this makes me realize what an amazing thing it was that I was able to get through a childhood in an environment full of dysfunction, child abuse, violence and other craziness. Ultimately I started running away from home at 13. Growing up in Los Angeles during the 70s was very tough with the gangs and other things that corrupted lives. I lived in foster homes, boys homes and other facilities for troubled youth. I think what saved me was that I never had a desire for drugs or alcohol. Somehow through all those crazy years, I graduated high school on time in 1981 and went to the Navy. Things were shaky at times but eventually I straightened my life out without getting into too much trouble, at least not enough to completely ruin my life. Sometimes I think if I had an issue with substances, I would have been completely ruined. I’ll be 60 in a few months and most people would never guess

I was in the class of '83, but I didn't graduate. Already had a job or two, an apartment, car, and my girlfriend & her baby lived with me. I felt like I was going to miss life if I stayed in school.

I graduated in 1983. Time goes by like a blink of an eye. They had a good principle. There is no good in flunking out a kid who has family problems, and was only going to achieve what they were capable of at that time. Regardless of how hard you pushed them. I was raised by a single mom. Its not easy learning things the hard way, but sometimes it's the only way for some of us. Letting them graduate at least gave them some hope.

34 years later, and the same problems are being asked today.

High school days were so easy. Literally just do homework and that's all your obligations. You don't realize how good you have it until it's gone. Boy if I could go back.

It's very cool to see this. I am 20 now, but my father graduated from high school in 1983. It's interesting to see a little bit of how the world was for him back then.

i was 13 this is so freaky. This video is like a time machine.

What u have to remember, people ham it up for the camera.Not everyday of school was as fun as it may look in this vid.And remember in 25 yrs people may look back at class of 2021 & say the same.Put a smile on & make it the best u can.

I was a freshman in 83, this wasn't my H.S., but may as well have been. I knew it would end, just didn't know how much I'd want it back. Imagine if those adults were suddenly confronted with today's statistic during their talk here. They'd have stroked out. I had one or two real genius teachers, and many that genuinely cared about me. Makes me a little emotional, and I feel the weight of being a little dismissive, or nonchalant with them. I mean I'm not a failure, but I didn't see or care to see the astronaut my 4th grade teacher saw, or pro artist or math teacher my 11 grade teachers saw. This generation has everything we thought would be awesome to have, and they're miserable. Nothing worse than being in your 50s, looking back with regrets.

It seems like the kids in high school acted a lot older back then than the kids of high school of today.

I would rather live in a teen high school 80's movie scene than that hellhole.