The goody-two-shoes girls mostly ignored the cool boys and described them as “low” and deviant, despite their cool status. By contrast, the cool girls frequently hung out near or with the cool boys at lunch and recess, and many considered each other friends. Interactions between the cool girls and the cool boys often centered on, but certainly could not be reduced to, “drama” related to the prospect of courtship between the highest status members of the respective cliques. As I will discuss shortly, this comparatively early engagement in courtship rituals was a major thorn of contention for privileged parents, especially when the prospective courtship crossed racialized class lines.