The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

There was immense fear of starting high school due to the way
every class before me had been terrorized by upper classmen and
the way that you were intimidated by them through the entire
summer leading to the new school year with talk of ritual beatings
and drownings you had to face during gym classes. Most of my
classmates were on the verge of nervous breakdowns when we were
delighted to hear that because of the ritual beatings the gym
classes had become segregated by grades.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; RIVER ROUGE