High School Cliques

High school is thought to be the best 4 years of certain people’s lives, while on the other hand people also consider it to be a drag or a painful time in their life. This all relates to the Social Structure of which is upheld within high school. The type of people who you associate yourself with in high school determines yours social ranking throughout high school most of the time. High school is split up into a variety of cliques and/or groups, including the nerds, preps (privileged kids), hippies, emo, stoners and many others.
The nerds were thought to be particularly gifted in terms of their intellectual intelligence in the subjects they are in. They were the kids that had the highest grades throughout high school. People would also sometimes use them to help them pass specific courses they were failing. Kids also attempt to sit beside the supposed “nerd” during test or exam in order to higher their chances of getting a better grade.
The preppies are the privileged kids that have it all. Well if you are able to go to school and have a roof over your house you are considered privileged, but these kids are the extremely rich kids that …show more content…
Being a part of a group or clique is the first thing, then if there is a fall out with the group, sometimes the people that was once considered to be your friend might now be your enemy. It is not that you might have got in an argument with the whole group, but sometimes a fight with one member of the group might cause a rift with the whole group. Once you are rejected by the group you would be looked on as an outsider or an outcast, putting a huge target on your back. When the target is painted on the back of a boy and a girl, the treatment is on two different aspects of the table. Boys will most likely become the target of physical abuse, while on the other hand girls will most likely be verbally abused, or just be completely