school heirachy

[Steve]

ok now as we see so often in american shows that the social heirachy in schools are
jocks > non jocks > art/geeks

so is this true according to your school?

[Zach1992]

My school really doesn't have a heirachy. Everyone is friends with everyone.

I don't know if it was as narrow as that, but your in the right ballpark.

As much as some people would say and like to think their schools arent like the ones on tv and movies, there will always be that inherent hierarchy and groups of freinds that reign over others. And maybe in class, if they happen to be sitting next to eahcother they might be able to talk to eachother and laugh some, but once outside of the classroom they cut all ties ya know? At least thats how it was at my school.

[ArcaneVerse]

who cares? Nerds are going to rule the world in the end and only Geeks and Dorks are safe. luckily I'm a total dork =].

watch out meat heads!

[Owen]

My school was exactly like that; can you say "mandatory pep rallies"? Sports was valued above all else, even if no one would admit it (perhaps it was because that was all the school was good at?), and anyone who didn't get caught up in the sports scene was seen as an oddball, at best. Meanwhile, the intellectual student organizations, like math club, chess club, and science club were brushed aside as unimportant, to the level that they were merged into one club when the budget was cut. Thank God I'm out of that place.

[Connor22]

my school is an odd ball, nearly everyone is a jock at something, and at the same time everyone is a geek... It's cool and basically means I'm friends with everybody. It works and as far as I've seen there's no bullying or anything, because everyone is interested in the same thing... that or the biggest nerds in the place are 7ft tall giants who could break you and eat you either way works for me

[jazzrawr]

My school doesn't really have a hierarchy. Everyone just exists. There's no group that everyone thinks is better. At least not in my opinion.

[Zume]

Originally Posted by Gamer am I

can you say "mandatory pep rallies"?

Yes..exactly the same for my school when I was in school..may still be like that I was one of the band geeks/nerds/outcasts.. i was definitely at the bottom of the food chain..lol Our chess clubs and such were set as a class during our "interim" semester.. (a middle semester which offered people who failed during the first semester a chance to make it up) or those of us who passed a chance to take fun or extra classes..for me it was chess ^_^

[Rikudo]

I don't think our school is like that unless a person purposely outcasted themselves. However we seem to have these bands of overly annoying people that seem to come from both circles.

[NickT]

The jocks certainly ACT like they're on top...

[xCrazyInsanity]

football/girls field hockey > all other sports both sexes(with exceptions, if you fall in a lower class that isn't choir/band) > Choir > Band/"normal people" > computer nerds > gamer/anime geek > normal nerd level > LGB(exception if you're male and have a few popular faghags) > stoners (unless falling under one of above categories, which does happen)

Can ya tell my school doesn't take too well to their gay people?

[Swamp56]

Originally Posted by Gamer am I

My school was exactly like that; can you say "mandatory pep rallies"? Sports was valued above all else, even if no one would admit it (perhaps it was because that was all the school was good at?), and anyone who didn't get caught up in the sports scene was seen as an oddball, at best. Meanwhile, the intellectual student organizations, like math club, chess club, and science club were brushed aside as unimportant, to the level that they were merged into one club when the budget was cut. Thank God I'm out of that place.

You could say that again >.> (we went to the same school).

[Z3ni]

Here everyone talks to everyone.

I think american schools are like that coz they have so many years.

[RaeofLite]

My highschool didn't have hierachy's per say... but there were the students that were "more popular" than the others. I was in my own group of nerds/artsy/video gamer types and no one bothered us. We were cool in our own way.

my school was weird. yeah we had some sort of hierarchy but it wasn't a normal kind. our top was the smart jocks, cheerleaders and choir because most of the athletes and ASB people also did choir. the dumb jocks fit in somewhere up there too but they didn't rule anything. and the smart kids were not the geeks/nerds, it was weird cause most of the geeks and nerds werent in advanced classes and their grades weren't as good.

[Martin]

My school had "jocks" mostly because it was a specialist sports college, but it never had the whole stereotypical bullying/hierarchy shizzle you hear about. There were people more popular than others, but that's just the way of life and doesn't really indicate anything. Just because one person interacts with x amount of people and another interacts with y amount doesn't make you or them more/less superior, and that was pretty much known in our school.

However, there was definetly the sports superiority vibe in PE. The guys had that whole masculinity bullshit going on which made them think that exceeding in sport made them the alpha-male of the school, whereas I just said that it's only fair that they get atleast one GCSE when leaving because they'll fail everything else. You'd be surprised how correct I was there. My school had a few cunts in it, but they were never the bullying type. They just had a really annoying social group who liked trying to be the class rebel and pissing off the teacher.

It's interesting to study in Sociology though. There are quite a few traits that have been studied and published that I have recognised from my school, such as sports being 'cool' and academic subjects being 'swotty'. Labelling was very common, but it had virtually no influence on people from the age of 15+. It was mostly the years below that used that.

[musicgirl112233]

That how it is at my school.

[Johnnieguy]

Originally Posted by SexualTeen

My school really doesn't have a heirachy. Everyone is friends with everyone.

I don't know about that. I thought the same about my school too, then post-HS the gloves come off and the truth comes out. You would be surprised as to how much backstabbing goes on, even among "the best of friends".

[Roralo]

International Baccalaureate kids are at the top, and the SGA battles with them ferociously. Most SGA kids are AP kids. Most of the jocks, artists, club leaders, and etc are part of those two programs, moreso on the IB kids who usually do more than one activity. The SGA kids have influence because they have used their money and ties to the school to gain a foothold.

The 'bottom' are the 'normal' kids that don't take honor courses or aren't a viable part of any the clubs. Lower than them are just the 'weird' kids. Sports, Drama, Chorus are all equal playing fields at my school, some members are in both or all three. There is no 'uncool' club (traditionally speaking that the drama and chorus kids always seem to get tons of shit in stereotypical movies) aside from the scifi club.

[Nodnarb]

My high school was generally like that, but our sports teams were terrible while our fine arts programs were among the best in the state, which helped us keep from having a hierarchy quite as strict as some other schools. I think my class did a great job at trying to overcome the normal hierarchy. We were VERY excited when we elected a guy who was more in the art/fine arts group (and was pretty much the antithesis of "jock") as our homecoming king (prior to us, the quarterback of the football team had been the Homecoming king for as long as anybody can remember).