do you guys think portrayals of high school (or jr high) cliques in movies and tv are realistic?

i definitely do, but my school was very different: because our sports teams sucked, the jocks werent cool--it was actually the nerds that had the run of the school, which i think is very rare.

i was definitely a nerd, but, as class president, was fortunate enough to be popular (but not "cool").

To be popular, almost everyone needs to know you and like you, but to be "cool" (a step up from popular, whatever you want to call it), almost everyone needs to know you and like you AND want to hang out with you/be in your circle of friends

No. Everyone was an individual. Jocks, nerds, goths, cheerleaders, etc. hung out with each other all the time. I know nerds who have better girlfriends than most jocks.


A little bit, but there's not that many cliques that refuse to be with other cliques, as far as I know. I was somewhat popular because I used to write raps and then rap in front of people. I was also intelligent and I won a lot of awards in middle school and high school, including the honor roll. I'm not much of a socializer; I just mind my business and don't usually talk to other students unless they talk to me first. I guess I was a nerd/loner/rapper, if that's what you want to call me.

My high school was kind of stereotypical because the jocks hung with the jocks, the cheerleaders hung with the jocks and other cheerleaders, the nerds hung with the nerds, goths and goths, etc....I guess I was a drama geek, so I hung with the drama geeks.

I was a Jet, a Shark, a Greaser, and a Soc... all in the same semester, believe it or not.

I think I did though there were a few people who could clique jump if they belonged to more than one thing like a cheerleader who was in student government.

I was a Mallgoth, Outcast, Otaku, Gamer, Artsy, Nerd. Actually, I still kind of am...

Quite a combonation huh?

No, I was a loner for the most part. I hated high school.

I was the video camera guy who ran around the school documenting everything! lol. Still have the vids as well 8 years on.

I hung out with the school's all girl rock band (that I eventually joined and still play in the same band). We were all pretty goth and this was before there was such a thing as the mainstream goth.

We were knowingly uncool as far as conventional standards went, wore our own clothes and done our own thing, but no one messed with us, and people wanted to hang out with us all the time.

School for me was kewl...

I was the quiet girl who hung out with some of the reg. kids and burn outs. Even though being quiet and shy may have labeled me a target any other time, my social status was always normal because of the people i associated with, Thank God!

We did have jocks, preps, skater kids, Straightedges and drama geeks, as well as "BO-tards" (poorer kids who had to go to BOCES, a trade school, for half the day-- that's other kids' term, not mine). I don't think we had any goths or anything like that, although we definitely had a few kids that were pretty dramatic. I was pretty much a loner, though. I suspect whatever group other kids thought I was a part of depended on who they were.

Nothing is quite as noble or beautiful in their natural environment as the "Mallgoth". Anyone can be goth down in the dungeon... but it takes true talent to be goth in front of an Auntie Anne's Pretzel.

My high school was pretty stereotypical. I started out as an outcast, mostly hanging out with nerds, goths, and other outcasts, because I was quiet. Halfway through high school though I changed my attitude and became a loud rebel of sorts. I kind of got tired of being the "good kid" and started doing whatever I wanted. I skipped class all the time and scammed my way through school (kind of like a Zach Morris, you could say). The fact that I was able to get away with so much earned me a reputation as a "badass" and got me a lot of respect. Pretty soon pretty much everyone knew me and liked me. Word of some of the things I was doing even made its way to some of the teachers, but they could never pin anything on me. Heck, even some teachers respected me for it, and one of my favorite teachers admitted after I graduated that I "owned the school" during my senior year. I managed to work myself up from the bottom of the popularity chain to the top, but was never really in any cliques towards the end, because I never stopped hanging out with friends just because I made new ones in different cliques. By the end of it I was connected to pretty much every clique in the school.

Most of my friends were obnoxious and what most people thought of as jerks, the ones who were the loudest in the school, the pranksters/joksters if you will. If you can imagine, I was that quiet one in the group that everyone would say, "why do you hang with them?"

What clique was I in ? The "guys who hang out all by themselves, have no friends, and no one ever talks to them" clique. And what's Straightedges ?

A straight edge-a person who don't drink or do drugs.

I was the quiet guy in a loud group. I think I was the only one in the group who didn't get in trouble...well much trouble anyway.

I was in the same clique as Spotted Feather.

The special education classes I was in (It was technically BOCES, but my classes didn't involve trades) didn't really have cliques. We were in a school, but we were a hole-in-the-wall...Literally. Our entire section was converted storage space, and there was still a room that had supplies for other classes in it. Outside of assemblies, we didn't hang out with the main student body. Even at lunch, we had our own table and didn't talk to the others.

We did our own thing. Since we were united in various disabilities, there weren't that many cliques. There were two female students of indeterminate sexual orientation in my 12th grade year, but that was it in terms of variety.

Yeah, my high school was the typical kind where the two-watt jocks were worshipped. As far as cliques, I was an introverted 'straight-edge' (that's a new term for me) selectively social goth. And I wasn't the typical stereotypical goth, either - I was labeled as such because I shopped at Hot Topic. Well, I was 'goth' as a junior - as a sophomore, I did this weird sort of hippie-goth mix - I would wear leather spiked chokers, tie-dye and headbands. Ehh, what can I say? After a decade in a Catholic school that required uniforms, I took a long time to discover what exactly I liked to wear.

There weren't really any nerds, though. Now there's a "Flash Club" that got started when some very talented kids learned Flash and how to animate. People can laugh all they want - these kids were in junior high and they were wiping the floor with the other schools at animation competitions. I guess these guys could be considered nerds, but they're awesome and skilled. Unlike the dimwit basketball players and brain-dead cheerleaders who couldn't pour water out of a boot with the directions written on the heel, the nerdy Flash kids will most likely be going places in life.

I'm glad that, among the idiots in that place, I met some very cool people, and this includes the instructors.

My high school wasn't bad with cliques, thankfully. Everyone really hung out with each other.