This is the only one of the high school episodes that actually reminds me what it was like then (and one of my kids has just transferred into a mainstream Secondary which brings back memories too). American high schools or at least the ones on TV are so different from what I remember, too glossy, too not 50% portacabin. But this, the unthinking cruelty, the knife edge between cool kid and not cool. The dodgeball scene. That especially because although children can be cruel it was never just them them. there were always some adults that fed of it, some part of the system that supported it.