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Oh gosh, my high school was a catholic all-girls school and we only had 100 girls in my class, and, yes, it was cliquish. I liked the girls in my clique more than any of the other girls so I wasn't that bothered by it.
They were like that then, and 30 yrs later like that now on Facebook!
You've seen the crap on Facebook. A lot of these high school chicks posting comments on each other's current pictures in their FB albums like this:
(heart)(heart)(heart) You're so pretty (heart)(heart)(heart) (heart)(heart)(heart) So beautiful (heart)(heart)(heart) (heart)(heart)(heart) I love you (heart)(heart)(heart)
among others...
I suppose my high school might have been cliquish - but it was so big that it didn't really matter. If you found your niche - you were probably pretty happy. My niche - or clique - was the drama department. There were probably a around 100 or more kids in the drama department. I was close friends with maybe around 25-30 of them. Some of them were cheerleaders, football players, swimmers, etc. - so I'm sure some of them hung out with a few different groups.
Elementary school for me was much more cliquish. Most of the kids were super rich and I came from the "poor" side of town - meaning I didn't have an elevator or any original Monet's in my home. Middle school was better but high school was great!
I'd say there were 3 types, the "freaks" (pot smokers wearing the AC/DC or Van Halen concert shirts), the "jocks" (athletic, conformists, non-rebellious) and the "preppys" who kinda overlapped and could be considered the jock crowd (wearing Izod, collared shirts, with the little alligator on them).
Although cliquish, but not near to the extent kids are today, we were all like one big happy family and these were good size schools too. This was back in the pre-cable tv, internet days, late 70's early 80's before all this mass bombardment of advertising to create an image of what you should be came around.
I'd hate to grow up into today's kids world with all the social media and smacktalk about your peers and whatnot on myspace and fb. I'll occasionally pick up my 8th grader at school and the kids nowadays seem so sad and robot-like.
Of course they were cliquish - I went to a social worker workshop and one of the exercises was to flash back to middle school and relive your personal traumas. Everyone had plenty to choose from and they actually were affecting the person years later. It was an eye-opener.
I'd hate to grow up into today's kids world with all the social media and smacktalk about your peers and whatnot on myspace and fb. I'll occasionally pick up my 8th grader at school and the kids nowadays seem so sad and robot-like.
I have often thought the same thing. While we all ask "if we could do something over," I wouldn't want to be doing it today. I've heard that, in some not so challenging universities, students have that laptop open...but it's tuned into Facebook.
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