EDITED for Nate: Yeah I watch the Sopranos, but I am also a fan of a more realistic soap opera called "High School". IT starts again on August 25th, from 7:25-2:18 daily. You should check it out.
Been there, my man; done that. I was a candy-ass Dub lame-a-zoid geek. Didn't "asociate" with ANYbody. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
When I went, kids usually didn't have access to MAC-9s (they weren't invented yet). I was on the cusp of the "greaser delinquents" with DA hairdos and the occasional switchblade and the damn hippie generation.
At my Junior HS, there was a "tough guy" in my gym class. He got into a dispute with the ex-Marine DI gym teacher, who took him into an isolated stairwell for a conversation. Oddly enough, the poor lad fell down a few flights of stairs.