please stop writing Tim as the nerd. Tim would probably sleep through his classes and doodle in his textbooks. Compared to loser Jason who would trip over his own feet and call the teacher mom Tim is super cool
They are different types of Nerd. Jason is the Lit teacher’s pet with straight A’s who gets in trouble for fighting with the school bullies and slipping into foul language without thinking. The faculty have to punish him, but wish they didn’t.
Tim is the asshole who dozes in class, turns in homework half the time, but then goes up to the board and corrects the error made by the physics/chem teacher and sits down and goes back to a half-sleeping state, effecting total civility. The faculty want to punish him, but technically can’t.