How was your school divided?

[Thoughtful Thug]

Meh... I grew up in the 90s.

Preppys

Jocks

Stoners

Sluts

Trailer Trash/White Trash

Black People

Nerds

Geeks

Loners

Kids that go to Juvey all the time, or occasionally

I was somewhere between Stoners and Loners, with having time served in Juvey...

 

[Luckymoose]

White preppy kids, Asians and one black girl.

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

We didn't have any Asians at all except one year that I went to High School. I did forget we had a few Guatemalans and some from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. But they usually go unnoticed except some crazy poor Christians giving them awkward stares. They were in our schools because they have parents that can't afford to put them in a private Christian Academy or whatever.

The number 1 reason, or should I say many reasons to this day that I will forever hate Christians is because I went to a public school with them.

 

[Grisu]

Huh, this must be an American thing. We didn't have any such clearly defined cliques

pretty the same here...I had my group of people I hanged out with, but from the outside that group wasn't really different in clothing, musical tastes, behaviour or wealth from all the other groups.

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

And what the group did you belong to? Did it have a name?

 

[Grisu]

that's the point, the groups didn't have names, and many flowed freely between different groups. They were just loose groups of people who got along well with each other...

 

[Tee Kay]

Sporty kids - top of the pack. Included almost all white guys.
Party animals - self-explanatory
Slutty girls - not too many I must say
Artistic girls - girls with artistic bent and/or career ambition, people who actually had dreams and believed in them.
Quiet girls - ...
Gang Asians - Asians who look like they're 25 and about to beat you up.
Non-Gang Asians - Plus one white guy and an Iranian. Had a variety of interests but always hang out together so they can be grouped. Can be split into people who play an instrument and those who don't.
The Gamers - non-sporty white guys who played computer games and liked sciencey stuff
The Representatives - non-sporty white guys who sought refuge in SRC, theater, choir, etc
Loser - taillesskangaru

These groups all overlap each other a bit of course. Well, except for the loser, who didn't seem to belong or be accepted anywhere.

 

[Mango Elephant]

At my school there's a line between the smart people and the dumb people, I suppose those two are the most obvious groups, so beyond that there's not as much grouping, I guess. There are those kids who dress in all black, there are those band kids, those ghetto kids, and I guess that's about it. There are nerds, too, but they don't act like what I would call nerds. They're just weird.

pretty the same here...I had my group of people I hanged out with, but from the outside that group wasn't really different in clothing, musical tastes, behaviour or wealth from all the other groups.

Well, I suppose America is just more diverse like that. Homogeneity is cool, too, though.

 

[nonconformist]

Uh, we were divided by school year, and then by what foreign language we took, either French or German, but this wasn't really important.

We didn't really split off into cliques or such, we just hung around with whoever, especially if we played football or whatnot at lunchtime. It was quite free-flowing. It had more to do with who you got on with than how you identified.

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

pretty the same here...I had my group of people I hanged out with, but from the outside that group wasn't really different in clothing, musical tastes, behaviour or wealth from all the other groups.

Maybe it is because you live in Switzerland or not. I don't know. But from where I live, no matter what group you hang around with, there will always be people outside of the group that will go about associating you, and the group that you belong to, by a particular name.

 

[jtb1127]

Maybe it is because you live in Switzerland or not. I don't know. But from where I live, no matter what group you hang around with, there will always be people outside of the group that go about associating you and the group by a particular name.

The exact opposite here. People just flow around and switch groups like 10 times a day.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I think the only real division there was at school was by year. I noticed that the smart kids tended to stay together, as I tended to stay near them when I could, and I think the ones who got in trouble a lot would be in their own group. Other then that I don't know.

 

[classical_hero]

The women Godwynn wanted to slept with, and the women whom did not want to sleep with Godwynn.

FTFY.

I think in my school it was separated by those who were more academic and the more sports minded.

 

[Godwynn]

FTFY.

I think in my school it was separated by those who were more academic and the more sports minded.

That would be the same group.

 

[Quackers]

noncon's school had a lot in common with mine.
I guess our school uniforms means it's easier to talk with everybody. I think in America if you wear hipster clothes and act like a hipster it's easier to identify them at school and form that group.

 

[Tahuti]

These were the most notable and organized social groups at my former high school.

Leftists
Metalheads
Religious people (mostly Muslims and Middle-Eastern Christians)
"Professional" hedonists
Jocks

Note that I excluded geeks, as practically all of these groups had people that exhibited some traits that could be described as geeky.

 

[GoodGame]

Two wings, two floors, those who worshiped American Football, and those who didn't.

 

[aronnax]

Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11 and Grade 12.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I grew up in a county school system that had well-off families as well as poorer ones, and a good even mix of black and white. Racial cleavage existed: there were many groups which were exclusively black or white. That wasn't the norm, though. The Valley Grande kids tended to run together (being wealthier than the rest of us) -- their parents were local business owners who owned comfortable country estates, but who chose not to send their kids to private school for whatever reason. The band kids were their own group, of course, as were the few soccer players. There are other general groups -- jocks, the Plantersville kids, the popular set --- but those had a lot of overlap with other groups. There were geeks and nerds, but they were in the band -- and there were popular people in the band. I wasn't a socially healthy person back in high school, so there I was pretty much a loner. I don't even remember most of my time there.

 

[warpus]

How was your school divided? By divided, I mean social groups, such as the cool kids, the emo/goths, and the nerds/geeks. At my school, we have the Cool Kids, the Nerds/Geeks, the couple of what I'd call Gothic Revival people, the Hipsters, the Kids Who go to Court and Smoke and etc., and people like me are like the Middle Class. We don't really belong to any specific groups but just hang with our friends. I've heard at some schools, these different groups almost function as rival gangs, but at my school, people of different groups commonly give each other compliments, and talk to each other.

What was it, or what is it, like at you're High School?

High school?

1. Polish Mafia - My highschool was named after JPII, who is Polish. The Polish hangout was right by the big picture of John Paul II that hung right by the entrance. I was a member of this group only in a very small way. Knew a bunch of people in it but didn't identify with what they were about (for some reason they ALL loved Depeche Mode, which at the time I thought was "ok")

2. Jocks - The tall dudes who were popular, either because they were tall, were good at sports, or were members of the school council. They all dressed exactly the same (preppy, etc.). I had some friends in this group, but wasn't a part of it.

3. Alternatives - I went to highschool in the early 90s, when grunge exploded onto the scene. A large segment of the school population wore lumberjack shirts, if you know what I'm talking about. I was a member of this group.

4. Geeks - I was a member of this group for sure. We'd hang out after hours in the computer lab and played Apogee video games. This was right before the internet started becoming big, so it was all about the local network. We hacked the school's systems a couple times and got in trouble for it bigtime.. But you don't need to know the details..

5. The druggies - The smokepit right by the busstop closest to the school is where people went to smoke joints before class.. Or you could go and toke in the bushes behind the school. Nobody really knows who was a member of this group, as actual members can't remember a thing.

There were no goths, or emos, or scenekids.. Our groups weren't exclusive either. For example, one of my best friends was the most popular kid in school. He mainly hung out with the jocks/popular kids, but was a member of the computer club.. and played doom 2 co-op with me every night in grade 11 via modem. He also wore a lumberjack shirt from time to time and identified with the alternatives. Got high all the time too.