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re: Grown people in New Orleans obsessed over where they went to HS. What is this?
Posted on 9/9/25 at 4:04 am to _Hurricane_
Posted on 9/9/25 at 4:04 am to _Hurricane_
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Grown people in New Orleans obsessed over where they went to HS. What is this?
It’s not really an obsession, and you should not be ashamed of your GED.
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Posted on 9/9/25 at 5:29 am to _Hurricane_
It’s no different in New Jersey or Long Island…throughout 24 years of military service, any dude I met who was from there would ask another Jerseyite or LIslander where they went to school and that meant high school.
Definitely not just a Southern thing.
Definitely not just a Southern thing.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 5:53 am to _Hurricane_
New Orleans is and always will be the most class structured city in the nation. One of the reasons that it has remained this way is the lack to large groups of transplants moving to the city over the last 100 years, like other cities in the South/ Southeast who have grown. When I was a kid there were 3 types of schools that kids went to:
Public schools
Private schools
Catholic schools
Other cities just have public or private schools. If I have to explain the difference between Private schools and Catholic schools to you, then you are not from New Orleans.
Public schools
Private schools
Catholic schools
Other cities just have public or private schools. If I have to explain the difference between Private schools and Catholic schools to you, then you are not from New Orleans.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 6:23 am to kingbob
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Different societies use different markers to distinguish between different social classes. Some go off of profession, income, what church you attend, what your last name is, physical appearance, social media following, etc.
Because of the nature of New Orleans public and private schools, what school you attended is a pretty easy marker for social classes.
All of this.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 6:28 am to _Hurricane_
Don’t forget the second question “What your daddy do”?
Posted on 9/9/25 at 7:20 am to _Hurricane_
It helps people judge you before actually getting to know you
And if they went to Newman or country day, they don’t want to get to know you anyway
And if they went to Newman or country day, they don’t want to get to know you anyway
Posted on 9/9/25 at 7:36 am to _Hurricane_
It’s definitely a thing in Lafayette, especially if you went to certain schools, like St Thomas More.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 7:43 am to _Hurricane_
You sound like you would have went to riverdale.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 7:47 am to Gee Grenouille
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Bogalusa Lumberjack checking in
Mandeville Skipper checking in.
I aways get a chuckle out of our mascot.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 7:50 am to SlidellCajun
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It helps people judge you before actually getting to know you
this...100% this.
Many people down there dont care if you have grown and become really successful....if you went to a school like say...Grace king, East Jeff or Bonnabel....they are going to judge you and look down on you even if you go on to be a doctor.
the women seem to be the worst about that.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 7:52 am to _Hurricane_
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But locals act like they can’t believe you would dare move to their precious city
If I was gifted a free St Charles Avenue mansion, I wouldn't move to that shite hole.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 7:59 am to nealnan8
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New Orleans is and always will be the most class structured city in the nation. One of the reasons that it has remained this way is the lack to large groups of transplants moving to the city over the last 100 years, like other cities in the South/ Southeast who have grown. When I was a kid there were 3 types of schools that kids went to:
Public schools
Private schools
Catholic schools
Back in the early-mid 90s my sister worked at a law firm in the quarter. Through other family she had met and become friends with (still is) someone who grew up at the top end of income latter in New Orleans. One night we were all out (at the Columns, if my fading memory serves) and some of the folks asked where I went to high school. Not college (as we were all young adults only a few years out of college), high school. I asked my sister's friend about it and was given a bit more in-depth social hierarchy than what's quoted above. I can't remember it now except that by not being from the New Orleans area I fell outside the ranking system. I still find it bizarrely funny.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 8:07 am to tigerbait3488
Raider pride bra
Posted on 9/9/25 at 9:26 am to djangochained
The saddest and most-pathetic group of people in New Orleans are the ones who didn’t get into Jesuit.
They bear that heavy, jealous cross the rest of the entire entirety of their existence and it’s a heavy load.
They bear that heavy, jealous cross the rest of the entire entirety of their existence and it’s a heavy load.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 9:58 am to _Hurricane_
I think everyone does this to an extent and it’s overblown for Nola
I’m not from Nola but if I meet someone from my hometown I’ll ask where they went to highs school to then narrow down who we might know in common
Now, what is a Nola thing, or moreso a Jesuit thing, is to have your damn high school and high school GPA on your resume at 30
I’ve looked through many job applicants with that and it’s pretty exclusive to that area/school
I’m not from Nola but if I meet someone from my hometown I’ll ask where they went to highs school to then narrow down who we might know in common
Now, what is a Nola thing, or moreso a Jesuit thing, is to have your damn high school and high school GPA on your resume at 30
I’ve looked through many job applicants with that and it’s pretty exclusive to that area/school
Posted on 9/9/25 at 10:01 am to lsupride87
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a Jesuit thing, is to have your damn high school and high school GPA on your resume at 30
I didn’t realize Jesuit grads apply for jobs
Posted on 9/9/25 at 10:03 am to _Hurricane_
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I grew up in Mobile,
Where did you go to high school?
Posted on 9/9/25 at 10:19 am to SportsGuyNOLA
This was a thing 20-25 years ago but unless you are in some small patches Uptown of locals nobody cares.
When you see 10 people in NO just remember 8 or 9 of them are not from NO.
When you see 10 people in NO just remember 8 or 9 of them are not from NO.
Posted on 9/9/25 at 10:23 am to _Hurricane_
New Orleans natives love to sniff their own farts and the private school elitism is where it all begins for them.
They got women planning births around certain years so that their daughter is in "the right class" at Mt. Carmel. Lord forbid our daughter's a Rag Doll!!
Clown arse society also insists an inspection sticker is a "brake tag," they just live in another world
They got women planning births around certain years so that their daughter is in "the right class" at Mt. Carmel. Lord forbid our daughter's a Rag Doll!!
Clown arse society also insists an inspection sticker is a "brake tag," they just live in another world
Posted on 9/9/25 at 10:23 am to Lakeboy7
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This was a thing 20-25 years ago but unless you are in some small patches Uptown of locals nobody cares.
When you see 10 people in NO just remember 8 or 9 of them are not from NO.
It's sort of why this topic is really at this point little more than a quaint quirk rather than something anyone should ever get riled up about.
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