american school goers inform me plz!

lol ok so ive allways thought american "high schools" in general were like ...well like popularity battlegrounds,

not in a bad way its just when ever i see a tv program from america the teenagers are allways DEEPLY worried about their rep' or how popular they are. like that show "8 simple rules?" or like that cordilia girl in that old buffy the vampire slayer show?

just wondering if american schools are really like that, its wierd cos when i was younger in school i wished i could go to an american school because it looked so new and exciting in all those shows,

so yeah gimme your perspective on your school what are the halls like at lunch time? are there the social rumours? do the girls get that obsessed with popularity?:D :s4: :yippee:

The TV shows usually overplay and exaggerate the stereotypes but yes, there is alot of popularity contests and jocks and nerds and shit like that

Yes, it's really like that, but not everywhere. That's your "typical" high school but like some private schools and small town schools are a little different. My high school was like that, but people aren't as outright bitchy as they are in movies. I think "Mean Girls" was the most like my high school... like, there was drama, but none of it was really important or overblown, it's all behind your back and shit.

eh not really. at least i dont talk to any of the people who get caught up with that shit, so to me its non-existant.

ha lol, i bet the american highschool is just like yours.

here in los angeles it is like that
not many kids care about learning

if you dress good,act right,and kick it with other cool heads
then your days will be filled with fun [parties,girls ,drugs]

if not

good luck studying on friday night by yourself

fuck schools here in la for kids
theres more a chance your kids will learn more bad than good

my school is definately not like any tv shows. but we do have a few little groups but they pretty much even on popularity.

yea my school is not like that at all. It's weird cause all the "cliques" crisscross, and everyone hangs out with each other. And all those movies are really overplayed, usually with the actors being in their 20s or something haha.

That show is called Angel. Eh It's really not that bad, I chill with everyone.

yeah my school was kind of like that for the more popular groups. for the less popular groups there was more intermixing. I offended the kids in the popular group and ended up hanging out with the pot heads and theatre kids for all 4 years.

yes its exactly like that but to a lesser extent, but at my school, its not just one huge group controlling the school, at my school, all the "cliques" mind their own business, but its not like the rules are set in stone. I just drift on and on.... until I find a conversation I like and ill get into it

yes

Man, only suburban white bread schools are like that.

When I was in high school, I was point guard, a pitcher, academics, (only person to get all AP credits in my whole HS), graduated honors....yet i was always skipping school....barely graduated. If there was any teasing going on, I was never on the receiving end. I actually have apologized to a few people who i ragged on pretty bad in the past during my youth.

I can't help it if my father taught me to be confident in whatever I was doing. Whether it be strikin' a batter out with a full count or teasing some fatass genius during an AP exam.

While I might sound like an asshole, if someone like myself talked shit to me back in high school, he woulda gotten an asswhoopin...its all relative. Stand your ground.

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Originally Posted by hobbitsmoke

its true but to a lesser degree

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yup

My high school was the most cliche school around. Yeah, it was all popularity. Which is really weird, because 100% of them smoked. Like the only two people(in my class of 200) that didn't smoke were allergic.

Note: those were the two people that I hadn't smoked with. Who knows, maybe they found out the hard way.

it was like that in public school. in private, not so much