High School Cliches?

DamaNegra said:

Is all that REAL?

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Yes.

Cliches are derived from frequent usage, much as a stereotype is developed. Unfortunately, the jock vs geek scenario has played out millions of times in American high schools, running a close second to the pretty girl vs fat girl contest.

For those kids who are on the wrong end of that deal right now, I wish I could take you on a trip through time to your ten-year high school reunion. I guarantee you would feel much better.

I assume you mean cliques. If so, they have always been very important in high school pecking-order determination, just as they have in all other sub-human societies. I don't use smilies.

I was like Clark Kent in school. A jock by day, and a nerd by night. I was friends with everyone, and I got to see how different groups interact with each other. It was very interesting. The problem was when they got into conflicts, I didn't know whose side I should be on...

I know in high school, football players disliked the cheerleaders...go figure...

The jocks were nicer than most...even going as far as dating girls who did not get the best grades or the become prom queen.

The geeks/nerds/losers were nowhere to be found...they didn't exist...they were either smart and pretty/handsome or smart/average or smart/dog ugly...everyone was judged by their individual looks or smarts.

The best to my rememberence...the inner self judged far worse than the high school friends or enemies.

My school was very large, we had around five areas of the county all enlisted to one school...for the country that is big, city it may just look like one block. Well the only problem in that was there was no way of dating anyone from another school! I missed out on saying the rival school down in the other part of the county had cuter guys or preppy girls...we missed out and found that we were all thrown in the pot together...I do remember also that you had to be cool if you got a locker on the forth floor...lol. I'm engaged to a forth floor guy...as I recall he was a freshman and in band. I still call him a band geek.

I was not a geek, not smart enough, and no barbie girl...I was average and yet people knew me. I worked on the lit. magazine and was into the artsy scene. It depended on what you did in a week to get your name mentioned.

I_Shrugged said:

thought I was a snob and a slut,

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So, were you?

Yes, cliques do exist and they are toxic. I had a hellish high school life and can only hope my kids fare better than I did. What a wasted learning opportunity it all was. I lived in fear. I'm still intimidated by teenage girls (okay, they scare the hell out of me).

I was brainy, introverted, almost 6 feet tall and shockingly thin. All bad combos for trying to fit in. Plus my high school was cesspool of cliques. I was a fringe-dweller. We all survive, for better or worse.

To all you teens: don't let anyone tell you these are the best years of your life. They're not.

SC Harrison is right. If a teen could fast-forward to the ten-year reunion, they'd feel better.

(Actually, though, I did have a good high school experience.)

shucks I thought this thread was titled..."High School Cheerleaders!"
now there is a cliche for you...

TeddyG said:

shucks I thought this thread was titled..."High School Cheerleaders!"
now there is a cliche for you...

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Aren't you supposed to stay away from High Schools?

Only since the restraining order

aadams73 said:

Only since the restraining order

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Trust me here, darling..you are so gonna pay for that comment...
Just you wait

I'd expect nothing less!

I_Shrugged said:

If you decide to go to your 10 year reunion, save the money and take yourself out to dinner instead. It really wasn't worth it. I'll be skipping any future reunions. (Not they could find me to send me an invite anyway. I dropped off the radar.)

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I haven't gone to a reunion yet. A friend of mine filled me in on all of them right afterwards... and I can't forsee coughing up big bucks to go hang out with people I really don't want to see. I live in the same town I grew up in, so I run into these people occasionally for free. *shudder* No thanks to paying to see them. I'd rather spend my money on enemas or shoes.

Go rent "The Breakfast Club"

Great movie.

I would never, ever go to a reunion.
In high school I hated everyone. Seriously. I thought they were all complete losers who would never amount to anything. And to the degree that I kept up with them, I was right. Not one single person I went to high school with went to college, held a job. They all still live with their parents playing XBox or whatever, and probably jacking off a lot.
I started dating my wife in high school though (11 years ago, wow.)

ETA: oh, and Dama, they are very real.

It's the same at every school and in every society.

I went to a sorta reunion in 2004 and it was a lot of fun. We were much older now, but we acted just like when we were teenagers. It's just weird. I hadn't seen them for a long time, and they still remembered me, but I was so embarrassed because I didn't remember some of their names (I remembered their faces, though).

I went to my college reunion and that was pretty sad. All the hot girls were now married with children. Not only that, it made me feel old.

I was a geek, plain and simple in high school. I had already been writing for a number of years, I was getting good at it, that's mostly what I did.

I suppose there were probably cliques but I never noticed them. I had friends all across the board from all of the different cliques. None of my friends got along with each other (at first; as the years went by, they did)

High School's full of cliches because it's also full of more or less the same group of raging hormonal angst-ridden bunch of morons for four years at a time. Mostly, what it produces is bad poetry. *shudddddder*

PeeDee said:

Mostly, what it produces is bad poetry. *shudddddder*

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Ain't THAT the truth!!!!!! LOL!!

Carrie in PA said:

Ain't THAT the truth!!!!!! LOL!!

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Yes! LOL!

Have any of you seen or heard of Mortified?

http://www.getmortified.com/index.html

I heard a clip on NPR and couldn't stop laughing!

Carrie in PA said:

Ain't THAT the truth!!!!!! LOL!!

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I am SO sick of idiot teenagers (no offense meant to the intelligent teens we have around here) who send you some message like:

(hey wazzup i wrote poetry in skool here ya go!

sad so sad
i want to die
i eat cheesy whizz
for days

my dad dont know me
my mom is cool tho
and u are pretty 2 me)

**** like that. I wind up wanting to do serious bodily harm to someone, which I'm not allowed to do.

I first experimented with poetry, myself, in high school. Not because I was aware everyone did that, just because I flexed that particular muscle. I think the fact that every single angst-ridden idiot around me was writing bad poetry was the reason why I didn't pursue it, why I don't particularly write poetry today.

There should be a law...

MeowGirl said:

Yes! LOL!

Have any of you seen or heard of Mortified?

http://www.getmortified.com/index.html

I heard a clip on NPR and couldn't stop laughing!

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I really want to see it. I've heard about it.