'Reunion' reunites classmates after 20 years; 'Confidential' puts current female students under the microscope.

By Jon Caramanica, Special to The Times
March 16, 2008

OF course the scars persist -- how could they not? High school is four years of molding, reflection and, occasionally, brutality. Even those left mostly untraumatized by the experience are still shaped by it. Years on, it remains fertile turf for emotional excavation.