Really? You don’t know anyone with fond memories of high school? I know lots of people with pleasant memories of their teen years. I know a tiny unfortunate few for whom those years were the best years of their lives, for one reason or another. Perhaps that is what you meant.
We didn’t have a 10 year reunion, tho we had a 9 1/2 year reunion that I attended and pretty much hated. Who rents an armory and hires a rock band to play? It was a night of an epic headache!
We didn’t have a 20th, 30th, or 40th reunion either, and we piggybacked on the next year’s 40th, so I guess we kinda had a 41st, which I did attend. It was in a smaller, but equally loud venue. The food was good but apart from 2 friends who I’d kept in touch with, there was no one there I recognized. I won’t go to any more. Frankly, I didn’t like those folks all that much while I was there! 
Out of a graduating glass of 849, there aren’t more than a dozen I’m curious about.
Because they were all at least 500 miles away, and a couple of times on different continents. I did go to my 25th, it was terrible. One classmate tried to sell me insurance, and the drunk husband of another one talked my ears off.
My 60th is to be this year, but I’m not even sure there will be one, not enough survivors.
I wasn’t invited. I don’t think there were any after the 10th.
We had 2 grammar school reunions which were terrific amounts of fun.
Seized and shut down by U.S. Marshals, ATF agents, the IRS, and police in 2001. Posting on my phone, so I can’t post a link easily, but Google “Indianapolis Baptist Temple raid” to see more of what went on.
By my 10th, I had already moved about 1500 miles away and the travel costs were just not realistic. Possible, if I’d really cared, but I had a thousand better uses for that money.
But high school was unquestionably the least happy time of my life. There are four people I would want to catch up with, but I can always reach out through FaceBook or something and say hello. I suppose seeing everyone else wouldn’t be unpleasant, but I’m really not a party kind of guy. Parties of any sort feel like work to me and it’s not worth the effort.
I skipped a year in high school and graduated a year early so I constantly get invited to party with the people that are not my peers and I hardly even know. Also, high school sucked. I hate adults who tell kids it’s the “best time of their lives”. Must suck when you are being bullied and some well-meaning but assholish adult is telling you that.
The best time of my life is RIGHT FREAKIN NOW, whenever that is. So I really had no interest in going back to HS.
Due to the internet, I’m already in touch with everyone that I’m interested in, or mildly curious about.
Didn’t care. No sort of “High school was a living hell” feelings or anything, I just moved on from that place and those people and couldn’t be bothered to revisit them.
What’s worse than going to a reunion is going to your spouse’s reunion (assuming you didn’t go to the same place.) I did it for one each of my bride’s HS and College reunions and vow “never again.”
The people were all fine, but its boring as all get out listening to people trying to remember “who lived in the room down the hall from Jackie what-was-her-name?”
Other than that I do know people who do look back fondly on those days and for them a reunion can be a fun thing.
I went to my 10th high school reunion. It turns out I was going to be in town that weekend anyway for a family wedding, so I figured I’d go. I was 8 months pregnant at the time, which wasn’t fun, but I wasn’t alone. Plenty of preggers ladies in the crowd. And it was a crowd. I graduated in a class of over 400 and I’d say there were at least 250 people there. It was nice to catch up with a handful of the people that I’d lost touch with over the years. I thrilled at some of the successes of the nerds and other peripheral kids from back in the day and chuckled evilly at some of the cheerleader types who’d aged too quickly. I was, on balance, glad I’d attended, but saw no need to ever go to another one.
I never attended any of my college reunions, but have gotten together with my sorority sisters several times over the years.
I have Facebook, where I can unite with just about everybody I went to school with.
I was a drop-out though so I never get invites to official reunions.
If I want to visit with people from my past, I’ve maintained or re-established contact. I don’t see value in going to these events. While I had some very good friends during that time, if I don’t have contact with them now I’m not really desirous to visit with them. Its not that I didn’t like most or any of them, its just wasn’t and isn’t important enough for me to make an effort.
Complete and total apathy.
I was the painfully shy one in high school so I’ve never gone to a reunion because I’m pretty sure nobody would remember who I was. I didn’t really have any friends that I wanted to reconnect with. The ironic thing is that I’ve done some pretty cool things in my adult life with a terrific career, but it would be a waste to go to a reunion to brag about it because when I paused for accolades, the only reaction would be “… ok… so you’re who again…?”
(Think Ally Sheedy’s character in The Breakfast Club only shyer and not quite so weird.)
This. I haven’t gone to my 10th, 20th, 30th, 40th or 50th. I doubt I’ll go to my 60th, if I’m still alive in 2023.
The truth is I’m just not a “go back” kinda girl. I’m an “ever forward” type.
High school was a very difficult and traumatic time in my life. So, not much incentive as well. I was a pregnant teenager, much talked of, etc. I didn’t much care or notice as I had other traumas to deal with, but it pleases me to know I’m certain they must talk about me.
After the twentieth I got a call, ‘Why didn’t I go?’. I don’t live there any more. Both physically and metaphysically, as it were.
Then a guy came round from 38 yrs ago, of course he’d been attending all of them as he lives in the city still. Told me stuff about people I hadn’t thought of in decades. In fact, I didn’t really even ask him things cause I just honestly wasn’t the least bit curious. It was odd.
But, yeah, “Go Back?”…not really what I do…I only go forward.
My high school has never had any reunions (never had a senior prom either, which probably was a blessing*).
Either we are far too cool for h.s. reunions, or most of us are in prison or dead from ODs.
*Dee Dee Friedman tried to organize one, but there was a stunning lack of interest.
The one person I’d be willing to see I already see and keep in touch with.
Same reasoning for 10, 20 and this year’s 25th.
And here. I attended three different high schools and haven’t heard a peep about any of them having reunions for my class.