High School Students

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High school is filled with many diverse students, however they can all somewhere fit into one of these three categories; The “Perfect” Students, The Lucky Ones, and The More Complicated Individuals. There are about 2,000 students in the average public high school. All of them work and act differently, but there are certain characteristics each of them have that represent one of these groups. The majority of them fall somewhere in the middle category, “The Lucky Ones”. Some kids work harder than others, some don’t even try and get good grades, and some of them, well, are more complicated.
The “Perfect” Students. It’s in quotations because there is no perfect student. Front row, these kids have grown up doing good in school all their life and their teachers love them, but that does not mean that they are perfect. These students seem to be the ideal picture that everyone expects all the kids to be. They take honors and AP classes, they turn in everything on time with little to no errors, they have always had the goal to get at least a 4.0 and get into a good college. They are unsatisfied even when they receive a B. Their life seems pretty set in stone. They are just one of those that do really good, almost flawless. They want to see their picture blown out in the high school cafeteria with their name
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These type of students still have goals and strive to do good but usually do not try as hard. They can achieve a good grade in a class without even having to study for exams. They usually have mostly As and Bs and the occasional C. They are usually the class clown or the teacher really likes them because they are very social. These students still will get into a good college even though they mostly got by in high school from copying the nerdy kid’s homework that sits beside them in Precalculus. The majority of the students in high school are The Lucky Ones. They get what they need to get done so that they can

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