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I never got to appreciate the concept of wearing  comfortable clothes to class until I got to college.<\/p>\n<p>I thankfully had a very important  window into life at public schools, however. For better or for worse, everything  I ever learned about public education came from John Hughes movies.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes died on Thursday, leaving a  legacy of pop culture which extends far beyond teaching private school kids like  me that sometimes you were graded in gym for very important dances and the true  meaning of the Laffer Curve and voodoo economics.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Generally, the death of a celebrity  doesn\u2019t faze me much. I can\u2019t grieve for someone I didn\u2019t know. The news of  Hughes\u2019 death, however, did make me look back on how his work really impacted  people of my generation.<\/p>\n<p>Beneath the many, many quotes that  my contemporaries and I can throw out in almost any conversation, I think we  developed a better understanding of one another because of movies like \u201cSixteen  Candles\u201d and \u201cThe Breakfast Club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the awkward girl might not  always get the cute guy, and the rich girl might not give the stoner her diamond  earring, but Hughes gave us a chance to see that everyone does have something to  offer, even those interested in the custodial arts or with names that sound like  major appliances.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know how that affected life  in public high schools, but I know it made me even more excited about going away  to college than I could imagine. I wanted to have those kinds of relationships,  an impossible standard to meet. I did get to meet a pretty funny Japanese  exchange student, but he never drove a car into a lake as far as I know.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t think I have nothing but  good memories about Hughes\u2019 movies. He also caused me some serious harm from his  depiction of a high school wrestler in \u201cThe Breakfast Club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I have had to hear countless  comments about \u201ctights\u201d and \u201cthe required uniform.\u201d Only recently have I  discovered the ability to laugh at the joke. And what was Hughes thinking having  a wrestler eat a huge lunch in the middle of the season? You can only suspend  disbelief for so long.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m kidding, of course. Kind of.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the power Hughes\u2019 movies had,  though. You could find yourself somehow in a single character and the whole  group of them at the same time. We all wanted our birthdays to be epic, everyone  wanted to skip school nine times, the thought of creating the girl of our dreams  with a computer sounded so promising.<\/p>\n<p>That last one probably doesn\u2019t apply  to everyone, but continues to demonstrate just how many movies Hughes made. I  shook my head in disbelief when I read the list online after he died. Hit after  hit after hit.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this summer, the world  stopped to remember the King of Pop after he died. Well, I\u2019m stopping now to  remember the King of Pop Culture. Because I can remember lots of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most of my friends growing up, I went to private school all the way through high school. I never got to appreciate the concept of wearing comfortable clothes to class until I got to college. 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