High School Stereotypes Essay

One aspect of High School I will never be able to explain or understand are stereotypes. While I do understand how people come to believe these stereotypes, I do not think any of them should ever be applied to the way students and parents actually look at the world my generation lives in. I am aware that stereotypes are nothing new to society but, you would think after the decades they have been contradicted, stereotypes would no longer be prevalent. One particular stereotype my entire life and experiences has shown me to be false, is the idea that compares private and public schooling systems. I have been shown first hand, that many stereotypes believed to be true about both public and private schools, are very wrong. From my experiences at …show more content…
I remember not being excited to leave my friends but I was still young enough that I was looking forward to meeting new people, so the change did not have much affect on my life, or so I had thought. My brother on the other hand, was going to be in high school and he had to leave all his best friends, start at a new school with people who were not very welcoming to a student joining their friend group. This is where the first stereotype comes in, although this one is true for my story, I would have never thought finances played such a big role. Going to a school that was 20,000 dollars a year for me individually just to be in middle school immediately puts an image in your head of the types of people who attend a pristine school such as this. Long story short, the stereotypes you are thinking of in your head all too true. I was not welcome into their small community of 68 kids, and was severely bullied the four years I attended. The bullying was not prevalent in my brothers grade, he was much similar to them than I was with the kids in my grade, therefore, he thrived at our new school while I regretted every day of