Pros And Cons Of Cliques

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The first clique i’m going to talk about is the popular girls. Aka the plastics, the girls that manage to somehow hit puberty in the 7th grade and thus are the objects of every boy who also hit puberty in middle school attention. The Gothes

Ohh the rebels, those that love to stick their noses up at the blond haired, cardigan wearing girls who want to fit in. The irony is their decision to wear black eyeliner, keep their hair in front of their eyes and incorporate chains and studs into their wardrobe as much as possible makes them a clique of their own. Nothing like agreeing to not fit in so that you fit in to another different clique.

The Jocks or the Athletes
This crew may seem like it overlaps with the popular kids, but serious jocks are in a (literal)
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And kids who crush it in college end up inventing apps that they later sell for billions of dollars.
The Adicts
Sure your parents probably made you go to church or temple or wherever when you grew up. Some kids end up embracing Sunday school and make young life, church lock-ins and youth group their social life. They enjoy posting religious quotes as their Facebook statuses and are definitely much better people than your average high schooler.
Cliques in high school can be good or bad. Most kids use cliques to beat up on other students or cause trouble in the school. Personally the most violent clique in high schools today is a clique called versitile. They are known to shoot up party’s and make trouble in the school building. Versitile is a ruthless clique that does not care about other gangs and are know for killing people.
In conclusion cliques in high are what made our parents and who they are today so we should respect them and let them

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