How was your school divided?

[NedimNapoleon]

No racial or ethnic division (100% Bosniak) well there are a few categories

1. Sport jocks
2. Saobračajci [The "cool" & "badass" but doomed kids] - They're called like that because it means truck driver, their trade
3. PC Gaming Smart Kids - Me, a few others
4. The Masses - Simple pop culture and average in every view
5. A few metalheads - I hang out with them

On the political spectrum
1. Non political 98%
2. Wahhabi 1.9%
3. Leftist - Me

 

[Mr. Dictator]

Not really much to my old alma mater. Everyone got along pretty well, but did their own thing.

Really, the only people who got crap were 3 or 4 people who deserved it, honestly.

 

[Kennigit]

I don't know; never payed attention. That and I'm a very unobservant person when it comes to social groups. I could have walked through a hallway clearly divided by social groups/ethnic groups/whatever and never know because I look at the ground when I walk.

rough guess of things I noticed-
1) drama/theatre nerds (involved in other stuff, but if you were part of that group you were noticeably focused for that group)
2) maybe football/sport divisions. Primarily american football, since other teams seemed to mix people who also played other sports together; many american footballers only played american football
3) some soccer (football) kids. Noticeably hispanic kids that only played soccer/spoke spanish to each other.

that's about all I noticed. I'm sure there was some measure of popularity or whatever outside of school, but since I never went to parties/even heard about them I wouldn't know anything about that scene.

 

[downtown]

I don't remember too much in the way of sterotypical cliche groupings. I was the president of our school marching band, and I hung out often with members of the football and basketball teams, as did a few of my bandie brethern. There were splits based on income (the rich kids had their own group), but most groupings were based on interests and who you got along with.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

The only obvious thing was that the smarter students were in the "Academic" courses as opposed to the "Applied" ones.

 

[Civ'ed]

groups were are the girls and the boys (no really.)
and then within the boys you have the people who never do their homework so have to ask the girls for the answers and the gamers. Oh yes, and the Baptist dude. Always need the Baptist dude.
I fall into the gamers.
(no offence to anyone)

 

[Boundless]

Oh man, my school was evidently rubbish!

 

[The_J]

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.

Same here.

While there've been several subgroups, there was no "topical" split in there.
Most groups were formed due to the areas/elemenatry schools/other former schools, and nothing really after that.
Due to the totally mixed up courses you also had contact with pretty much everyone, so there was no real chance for a definite split somewhere.

 

[cybrxkhan]

I went to school in America, and while we did have the subdivisions, they weren't really clear cut. It wasn't that hard to be good friends with or date people from other groups, sort of.

At my school it was more like... there were several groups that you were friendly with, but one that you tended to hang out the most with. However, you could still easily flow back and forth between a number of groups. It wasn't really that rare to see a supposedly stereotypically football jock hanging out with some weedy looking Asian nerd or something. Everyone had a decent amount of respect for each other, or at least they were formal and polite.

I'lla dmit though that you could group all of these groups into really three broad categories, somewhat divided by ethnicity - the mainly Jewish kids who, in the abscence of a large white population at my school, were the "cool" kids; the cool Asians; and the Asians and mostly everyone else (there were lots of Asians at my school). Even so, many people were easily part of two or even all of these three groups, so I don't think it really mattered.

 

[skeptikalz!]

Miami Senior High School, class of 09'. Very huge school in a big city.

80 percent of the school was some sort of Hispanic, 10 percent Black, 5 and 5 White and Asian.

1) Football Players, Preppy kids, Popular chicks

2) Party Kids, Stoners, to some extent the Skaters

3) Nerdy kids, math clubs, anime, etc.

I moved around all the groups, but spent less time around the nerdy kids, as they seemed way more exclusive to who they wanted to talk to, and well, just socially awkward and rude, really.

The football players were boring as .. the whole deal was just knowing them and getting some perks at a party or something.

The stoners and skaters were my favorite.. never skated, but a lot of smoking and hackey sack!