I would really love to hear about this from you guys.. how was High School for you guys? from the various US series/movies that i watched, Cheerleaders/Sports Jocks = top of the social table it seems like those jocks can do whatever they want and get away with it. But seriously, don't people (in this case, the geeks/nerds etc) fight back? I for one, ain't the tallest or the biggest or the meanest guy in school, but i don't let anyone ride over my head. After a few punches, knocking my knee into faces and erm flinging some chairs XD, well people generally treats you with a little more respect.. what was your High School life like? were you bullied?
At my first highschool, I beat the shit out of everyone who gave me a weird look. I then went to a "continuation school" which is basically school for screw-offs. At that school, I noticed a vulnerability in the online login system to view your grades so I did a little SQL injection on the login form which allowed me to alter my grades from the login form, similar to the one on neopets around 2003. I could have given myself a 4.0, instead I changed all my grades to "Z" just to see who it would piss off. Inevitably, it pissed off the whole faculty resulting in me getting kicked out of that hell hole. I was then forced to go to a private highschool--uniforms and all--costing my parents a shit ton of money for the year, but I was a good boy for my last year of HS and graduated
Meh, I was on the varsity swim and dive team for my 4 years of high school. Did pretty well in my classes graduated with a 3.996 >___>. I had my own group of friends from class and another from the swim team. I really don't believe all that TV high school drama bs happens very often. Most of the students got along although there were obvious social class differences. I was never bullied or anything. I don't remember many kids from high school anymore since i traveled out of state for college.
I attended an urban high school in a... not so great part of the city. Surprisingly, there wasn't much of a social hierarchy at all (i.e. football/basketball players and cheerleaders weren't particularly popular). People tended to self-segregate by race. And security was really strict. You couldn't enter/leave the school building except during a very narrow timeframe.
We didn't have any of that here in California. You had different groups of people but no one was better then anyone else. If there was a problem then there was a fight. After that problem fixed you dont mess with them again or they dont mess with you. It was more like every man or woman for him/her self.
School being divided up by "Jocks/cheerleeders/nerds/punks" is total bull. Thats something you only see on TV. People here are more divided along racial lines. People make their own groups of friend and no one bothers each other.
That kind of thing has never happened in mine. I go to a competitive public in a wealthy town (hate the school... so many freaking asians and indians) but everyone is all chill. Everybody hangs out with everyone else and there isn't much of a clique.
My high school was exactly like that. I think all of the groups of friends were pretty diverse and people kept to themselves for the most part. No huge fights or anything like on TV. Cheerleaders and jocks didn't really matter in my school either because it was focused so much on academics that no one cared about sports. (And our teams sucked anyway.) Then again... I didn't really have any friends and tried my hardest not to socialize in high school, instead focusing on online gaming and roleplaying, so I could have been missing out on what was really going on.
this is good lol. Aemira pointed out something. maybe because the sports/cheerleading teams ain't that good in your respective HS, no offence here, thats why people don't treat them differently? overall, i would say that i am surprise but happy to hear all this . is it still this case now? i know a little about the racial diversity and the problems they caused but i thought that was back in the 1990s?
even now school's are nothing like in the movies. Schools that are on tv and in the movies are pure hollywood. For most schools it's either seperated by race, everybody on their own, etc. with sports playing a very minor role in the hierarchy (or lack there of) of highschool. The big thing that seperates kids, in my school at least, is all the people who tend to be somewhat different. And when i say different i mean the kids who dress up like anime characters at school, the guys who where heels/ makeup to school, that kind of stuff. Now i don't mean we treat them worse its just they tend to be with their own groups and don't really mingle like a lot of the kids do.
Exactly my observation. I am surprised to see someone actually confirm that the Hollywood high school scene is true.
I live in Hawaii and we have one of the worst public school systems in America. I went to a rally expensive private school for my freshman year and hated it. In 10th I went to a public school in my district and it was ugly. Lots of drugs and fighting. I fought alot because I'm white and there happened to be a lot of racism that year. I stuck around for half of my junior year then got a GED and went to a community college for a year. That's where I'm at right now for another year. Then I'm off to the mainland for some real school :]
Well to me I didn't really notice it being a starter on my freshmen basketball team. But there probably was some time of hierarchy in my school. Nothing to noticeable to me though.
Well it depends on the school, if its in the suburbs or in a place like NY I wouldn't know. My HS was so ghetto lol. The jocks were meh meh some though they could do what they want but they didn't run the school. The people that did was student government lol. No but really it was a group of wrestlers and Tongans who thought they ran the school. Everybody was pretty chill, there was fights at least once a week if not more. Bathrooms were dirty. Cafeteria food was crappy. Seen a couple drug deals go on, but nothing big. They would pull the fire alarms as a prank lol. They did that a lot. We would literally wait in our class when there was a fire alarm going off because we didn't know if it was a prank or not. (9/10 it was). A lot of kids dropped out since my freshmen year. Not really anything like what you see on TV lol. Oops forgot about the race. Which does play a huge factor of who you hang out with. There are some groups of people who just hang out with mixed but most of time its everyone with there own race. And believe me there is hardly ever one black guy who always hangs out with a group of white people like there is on tv lol.
lol. the last line is funny..so can i say that we'll get to see white guys hanging out with black guys only in NBA ? XD hmm..wouldn't it be rather chaotic when it comes to hanging out at places OUTside of school? say the chinese group need to get something from a shop that is in the mexican's hangout, what do they do then? seriously, all this answers really opened up my thinking..the US shows that i watched are really misleading ..
I hate to be this guy, but singapore your starting to seem like we are more racist then its coming off as. What we are saying is that the only diversity there ever was is mostly on race. But even then it was never a problem and people still didnt really bother each other. Mexicans dont own a corner and chinese people dont shop in groups. America isnt a big racist country. Imagine a room full of People who dont know each other. They are taking a test to determine what their future is. No one taking the test effects the others score. During the test there are small breaks and some people talk and some people dont. thats what HS is. except that instead of a test its 4 years of easy work. No one really cares what another person does. During my HS years? Freshman: Just got into high school late bloomer no one bothered me had alot of friends from all grades and all races Sophomore: Lost some Middle school friends because i dont have any classes with them so i dont talk to them Junior: GOT SOME! Cheated on everything never got caught great grades easy life and i can drive Senior: Cheated, skipped got away with everything. Had all my friends and life is awesome First year of community college: Actually worked hated it haahha alot of friends NOW: Joined the airforce alot of friends even though i dont go to school i still maintain friends and hang out all day with them. i probally hang out with 100 different people over a coarse of a week.
i went to a private high school, although a lot of my friends were from public. the education was a lot more rigorous but in general people are still the same
well from what ive seen, high school in the u.s is alot different that in england, its either be tough, or get the piss knocked outta you, but i come from a rough part on london (in england) all that you have to wear a school uniform shiit no matter what school you go to my beggining high school days (secondary school as we call it over here) were pretty bad at first, i was a bit of a nerdy guy who kept to myself but one day in about grade 10/year 9 some older kids decided to have a pop at me and my best mate as we were walking home, and they said something about my family, i took the bigger guy by the hair and smashed his head of the sidewalk as many times as i could, and i kept doing it till the other kids that were with him stepped away, (i heard the kid has to go to hospital with a broken nose and fractured jaw) but after that, no one seemed to pick on me anymore, (im guessing the word spread around school about what i did) and kids that used to pick on me wanted to be my friend, the lesson that i learnt here is dont back down from anything that you believe in, otherwise you will fall for anything, just stand up for yourself guyz, screw what the adults say, i bet you any money they went through the same thing back in highschool
We were supposed to move to the states a few years ago, but it just wouldn't be the same after living your whole life somewhere else. I feel like I'd be the nerdy outsider and no one would want that. Still, the privileges and level of education are very enticing.