Note Passing-Social Status?

I really disagreed with the reading on note passing being a standard of social status in America's High School. Despite Finders, findings (no pun intended) I personally dont feel that a girl writes in code to exclude other peers, but merely to exclude a teacher's understanding if the note is picked up. I did agree that the idea of note-passing is associated with the feeling of denoting power. Although ,most middle school children's denoting power is done unconciously. Also in my expirence note passing was to merely pass time. Therefore if I sent a note to someone, if they did not write back I would not keep writing because some of the time spent in class, is also used by reading notes that people have written back. In conclusion, I believe that note passing sometimes used to denote power, however is not a display of social status.