Note Passing

This story is about how Margaret J. Finders believes that passing notes is a way for kids to gain social status. Finders also refers to note passing as a form of rebellion against teachers. She says that the kids use rebellion to build up their social status. If a student can pass a note right in front of the teacher without the teacher realizing; this builds up social status because it is more rebellious than passing a note behind the teachers back. The more rebellious someone is while passing a note, the higher your social status goes up. Many different social groups make up their own code to keeps others out. Another technique the students use is folding the notes a certain way to make them easier to pass. Also whoever has the best technique for folding their note was the "coolest". I remember passing notes in high school, but I did not pass them to gain a higher social status. I passed notes to entertain myself because I was bored. As far as the techniques for folding notes, I think they are cool and all, but I don't remember anyone getting popular because they were good at origami.