High school cliques

[propita]

Ah, the advantage of being a depressed loner. No peers; no peer pressure. No cliques to worry about. I did try to fit in, by being on the drill team and later tall flag squad, and yearbook. Yet I managed to stay be myself a lot.

I didn’t notice a huge amount of cliques--people stuck with groups, but it was fairly flexible and no violence from that. Any problems were more one-on-one personal things. I believe things have changed since the late 1970s.

 

[Itisnotlogical]

^

Actually, no they haven't. Unless you live in a gang-infested dumpland like Texas or San Francisco, chances are relatively small of being harmed by classmates due to "cliques" or whatever the new term is.

 

[thestrangequark]

^True. Then again, there were two gang shootings and a murder in which the victim was lit on fire and stuffed under the bleachers of our football field in the three years I attended my high school.

 

[ares93]

^True. Then again, there were two gang shootings and a murder in which the victim was lit on fire and stuffed under the bleachers of our football field in the three years I attended my high school.

damn, thats gotta be a record... we've had crap too, but not on this level.

 

[Pingfah]

My school was a bit cliquey but not too bad. There were kids who were noticeably more awkward than others, they tended to band together a bit, but they didn't get any real trouble from anyone else.

Everyone was smart though, so the good sports kids were all chess club/maths club/whatever club members along with the less socially adept kids.

 

[Naira]

We had no cliques. Sure, there were kids that were more popular than others and circles of friends but that is normal, you can't be friends with all the students.

 

[SPCTRE]

We didn't have what I would refer to as cliques, but there was a lot of bullying going on, especially of people who weren't wearing expensive clothes all the time (my school was very close to one of the richest districts in Munich).

On the upside, there was literally no violence to speak of.

 

[SeerSGB]

^True. Then again, there were two gang shootings and a murder in which the victim was lit on fire and stuffed under the bleachers of our football field in the three years I attended my high school.

damn, thats gotta be a record... we've had crap too, but not on this level.

Yeah, I think the worse that I saw-- from classmates in highschool-- was when I came out of Business 4: Marketing one day and one of my classmates got jumped and beat with a baseball bat cause he had talked to the attacker's girlfriend in homeroom that morning. They beat the living hell out of that kid, but he lived.

The worse that that, in my opinion was what a teacher did to one of the kids. One of the seniors got got some bad weed (guess it was laced with something, least that's what the "official" story was) and had a major freak out. He went tearing down the hall screaming and clawing at his face and ran head first into the corner of a cider-block wall and split his head open and tore his face all to hell and back. 1 teacher was screaming don't touch him cause he might sue the school, 1 was trying to give him first aid, and another kept stepping around the blood on the floor and hollering about not getting it on her new shoes. When they did the depositions (his parents sued the county for medical bills and something or another that had to do with the fact that no school officials stopped a screaming 17 year old that was clawing his face open and running down the hall) the teacher admitted that she refused to render aide because she was afraid he's get blood on her new shoes-- bitch.

 

[nevermore]

My graduating class was composed of 20 people. So, no, there was no room for cliques.

 

[Jetfire]

We didn't have what I would refer to as cliques, but there was a lot of bullying going on, especially of people who weren't wearing expensive clothes all the time (my school was very close to one of the richest districts in Munich).

On the upside, there was literally no violence to speak of.

I never understood why kids cared about clothes other kids wore...so stupid.

I wore combat boots, Levi Jeans, t-shirt & flannel shirts in HS. No one said anything to me...of course I was bigger and looked mean alot.

[edit] My freshman year I walked into my English class first day and there were older kids there and one said...look at that dudes arms! Another guy said I don't care I will still kick his ass. By the way I was fast friends with both these guys.

 

[Amaris]

Yeah, several cliques. There were the football players, who all stuck together with the Cheerleaders, then there were the wealthier kids who had all the money and toys. Various smaller cliques existed, and then there was my clique, the clique where everyone was welcome.

 

[An Officer]

I can't say cliquishness was a problem at my high school. We had an excellent mix of people, and there were no definable cliques that I could see, just sets of personalities who got along well. There were no sports peeps, no cheerleaders, no emos. There was a good amount of mingling between races, classes, and creeds. It wasn't too bad on that level.

 

[SeerSGB]

I wonder (note: I graduated in '95) if the ideal of Cliques the ridgid self segeration (to use a word) among Highschool kids was more a product of the media-culture that sort of played of these divisions "larger than life" in movies and tv shows? Sort of a "Oh, this is way it's suppose to be, so this is the way we're supposed to act" mentality. Not saying TV and movies caused cliques, but I'm saying it took a... minor thing and made it more than it was when it started out.

 

[thestrangequark]

I was mistaken for a high school girl today!

Not exactly on topic, but awesome.

 

[Jetfire]

^
Was it by a creepy old dude or a highschooler?

 

[Amaris]

I was mistaken for a high school girl today!

Not exactly on topic, but awesome.

If only there were lovelier ladies like yourself when I was in high school!

 

[thestrangequark]

^Nah, I was a chubby hippie in high school!

^
Was it by a creepy old dude or a highschooler?

Actually, it was a middle aged lady. A group of Texans here for some kind of education convention -- they were on the train this morning and were enjoying the novelty of it. One woman in particular was curious about whether kids rode it to school, how young, alone, etc. There was a teenage girl next to me and she asked her if she was going to school (yes), what grade she was in (11th), how long was her commute, and so on. The girl got off at the next stop and the woman asked me, "Are you on your way to high school too?" Not for ten years, but thanks!

 

[Jetfire]

^Nah, I was a chubby hippie in high school!

^
Was it by a creepy old dude or a highschooler?

Actually, it was a middle aged lady. A group of Texans here for some kind of education convention -- they were on the train this morning and were enjoying the novelty of it. One woman in particular was curious about whether kids rode it to school, how young, alone, etc. There was a teenage girl next to me and she asked her if she was going to school (yes), what grade she was in (11th), how long was her commute, and so on. The girl got off at the next stop and the woman asked me, "Are you on your way to high school too?" Not for ten years, but thanks!

 

[firecrackerrrr]

There were tons at my high school here in Canada. That was my first (and only) year in a North American high school and it was soooo different than what I was used to. There were the populars, the nerds, the "Persians" with the BMW's, the drug addicts, the unofficial drug dealers, the bullies...so many. I kind of got along with everyone though. I didn't really like being in some stupid groups. It was a terrible school too.

 

[Robert DeSoto]

^True. Then again, there were two gang shootings and a murder in which the victim was lit on fire and stuffed under the bleachers of our football field in the three years I attended my high school.

Lit on fire? damn. What city are you from?