You see the cliques in those cheesy highschool movies and I think we all like to think that our high school isn't like that. I will say that those movies do grossly overexaggeratte the cliquies at my highschool but I won't deny that they do exist.
It's not as easy as just classifying my peers into groups like "preps", "jocks", and "geeks". It's more than that.
Let's start with the cheerleaders and the athletes. They don't hold as much distinction here as they do in the stupid movies, but trust me they don't go unnoticed. Of course the football players are the most pretigious where bowlers and golfers often go underappreciated. A handful of the cheerleaders I've met have an attitude problem, but most of them are friendly though they won't go out of their way to talk to me. They stay out of my way and I'm perfectly fine with that. There is also the dance team, but I don't hear too much about them.
There are the actors. This category includes the improv. team. They aren't looked at as nerds. It seems like many kids look up to the hilarious improvers. I'm sure the improvers are nice, but I've never really talked to any of them.
There are the members of the show choir groups. At the assemblies where they perform, they appear to go underappreciated. But in truth, many people enjoy watching them perform and respect them. You often notice them because they wear bright yellow jackets with buttons on them. Most of them are nice, though I've met a few snooty ones.
There are the smart kids who take all of the college level courses and get A's in all of them. They aren't really looked down upon in this school, to my knowledge. I envy them, I look up to them. I wish I had their dedication. I've met a few pretentious smart kids, but overall I have a few friends in this category and they are awesome.
I don't want to call this last category the "average" kids because I don't like to use words like "average" or "normal". But these kids are the ones who may be involved in a couple of extracurricular activites, get "average" grades but they don't do anything outstanding. They have friends, they're extremely friendly but they don't neccessarily stand out in a crowd. But that's definetely not a bad thing.
There's the trouble makers, though I don't know much about them. They hang out on the school campus skateboarding and get into fights with the supervisers when they try to kick them out. They argue with teachers and get sent to the hall. I saw a lot more kids like this in middle school, but I don't see as many here.
Then there's me. I don't know where I stand here. I guess I'm just here. I'm not an athlete or a cheerleader and I don't get average grades (my grades are probably considered a little less than average and I'm definetely not proud of that fact). I'm the president of my schools gay-straight alliance. There are a lot of people who know me at this school but I wouldn't neccesarily say I'm popular. I perform in talent shows but I'm not a part of the show choir or the dance team. I guess I'm just a part of this highschool. I'm just another piece to the puzzle. Another kid trying to be themselves when we're in a place where the easiest thing to do is to place everyone into groups - to classify them like they are soups cans on the shelf at a grocery store. Many of us run from it, but as far as we run or as much as we try to deny it, it's here. Here we all are just cans of soup at Walmart.
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