High School

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High school is an interesting place. Not just an interesting place but a place full of rowdy hordes of boys filled to the mouth with testosterone and dishonest complicated girls who will twirl their opposite sex schoolmates around their finger to their will. A place where athletes are made into all-stars or are broken. A place where Hollywood stars and talented voices of soon to be radio singers dominate the stage of their auditorium. It’s a place where tears are shed in school bathroom, where the real world starts to open its gates for the soon to be adults and where seniors prank on not only the freshmen but the staff too. All of the moments experienced in high school generally happen with friends; people with corresponding interests and activities. The pretty girls strut with other pretty girls, athletes chill with other athletes and the math geeks spend their time with other math geeks. The concept is simple; people who are alike hang with each other. The term clique, has arose as the dominant term used to called a group of particular individuals. Cliques, to some students, can be intimidating and in some cases, can completely separate a high school. So, two questions conflicting ideas arise: is having a school where everybody knows everyone a good thing? Or are cliques beneficially and just preparation for the real world? To get a better understanding of cliques, I will shed some light on what exactly a cliques is. Every high school student can be found in one of three clique categories: troublemakers, nerds and popular kids. Nerds have the biggest category, by far, while popular kids have the smallest group and the troublemaker group is right in the middle when it comes to size. So, even though the nerds hav... ... middle of paper ... ...for a kid to go through high school scared of another classmate. It’s not fair for a kid to be made fun of because he loves to play video games. It’s not fair for a kid to be made fun because he wasn’t born with an athletic bone in his body. High school is meant for kids to have fun one last time before life becomes serious. There’s a foggy haze around the word “cliques” when being referenced to high school. Some people have the best times of their life in high school. Others suffer everyday from torment and loneliness. No matter what the verdict is on cliques, high school can be improved and kids can learn to get along. I’m not saying the jocks and preps need to become best friends with nerds, but they don’t have to victimize them. For decades high schools have constructed these cliques to separate. Hopefully someday cliques can be abolished or revamped.

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