An example of this would be where the less good looking guys and guys with more brain than brawn can't talk to girls. Also, there is the old smart girls aren't good-looking. Any thoughts or opinions?
Errr... you didn't really give a statement to comment on... but... It would take a lot of looking to find a high school that doesn't follow the high school stereotype. Of course stereotypes aren't always true. That's what stereotypes are.
Stereotypes like that exist for a reason. You see them all the damn time. I follow almost all the quota for several different stereotypes (you can probably tell which ones). There are plenty of people who don't meet such stereotypes but they're hard to find. I wouldn't say they're as much "stereotypes" as "profiles based on observation".
High schools aren't like Degrassi...I thought we'd been through this in some thread but I'm not sure. Of course I've seen jocks, bimbos, nerds and class clowns like you'd see them in any high school movie but they were in fact a minority. Most people I came across walked the middle course, or had traits from several archetypes. Few things are ever black or white.
There's always a stereotype, and some people like this do exist. The geek, the football player, and such. But some people are willing to break through the stereotype and go out with others "not in their league." That's not even going into the whole popular kids clique ;D
Stereotypes have a small degree of truth, that's why they exist. But like Styx said, it's not all black and white. For instance, my group of friends each have aspects of many different cliques. Some have one dominating clique, but we all dabble around. Through High School, I've been called a prep, pothead, geek, player, normal, Christian, partier, etc. They contradict each other. The majority of people are like that.
oh god high school stuff carries on even into university? The stereotypes tend to be the immature ones or the ones that are very vain and reckon that they are the best looking person in the world V_V People are always like that, one thing that really bugs me... The thing about smart guys not being better looking didn't seem to matter at my school as everyone seemed to get girlfriends anyhow -shrugs-
I really hate stereotypes-Apparently im Emo and I slit my wrists cuz im "Depressed" but im actually just Quiet and I like dark music-Oh and I can talk to girls without wanting to have sex with them so that means im as bent as a French horn when really im straight. I think High School stereotypes are sorta down to Where you live and Who you live around-and in my case-I live around pure scumbags X_X
to be honest the song "teenagers" by my chemical romance sums up the people who attend the high schools round here...most of them...and well...the buildings...since the schools are so low on money opnly the newer buildings look any good the rest are quiote literally falling apart
There will always be those common stereotypes; but from my experience with high school so far is that most people just are a compilation of a ton of different stereotypes. They go to the beat of their own drum. I mean, I've been called numerous things already. The truth is that the stereotypical high school setting you're talking about is really just exaggerated in movies and tv. At least in my case it is.
Hmmm, I wonder if this applies more to American high-schools. Because my high-school doesn't seem to fit really any stereotype. Of course, our high-schools are really different (majority of the student body is a couple years older, high-school itself is optional, so most of the students really wanna be there to study, etc.) The 'cooler' kids never made fun of the 'losers', I don't think we even categorized anyone as a loser. The 'computer nerd', 'smart guy', the 'class clown' and the 'jock' all had an equal chance of being respected by their peers. Most of my year new my name, despite barely having talked to me during the three years we'd shared a school, yet no-one made fun of me, no one tried to bully me. Good looks had nothing to do with academic achievements. I personally don't fit any stereotype properly either. The closest for me would be the 'loner', yet I was never treated as one. I had a bunch of friends, I had an even bigger bunch of people I could talk to during the more boring classes. I just sometimes preferred to be alone, and they respected my wish of privacy, and I wasn't shunned because of that. I could always go hang out with them, when I chose to, and no-one would give me a weird look or anything.
whoa, just out of curiosity where do you live? i never heard of high school being optional before. as for the high schools i went to, one of them was one of those poor neighborhood schools where there is gang activity and the like. nothing like the high schools on TV, in fact it felt kinda like going to prison because we went through a thorough metal detector check going in AND out of school. and a couple of times we got frisked if you spent way too much time in the bathroom (because the kids had a tendency to do drugs in there), the cops really took "If you have nothing to hide, then you shouldn't mind us searching you" to a HUGE extreme. sad part is that they actually had good reason to frisk people who spent too much time in bathrooms, because i remember hearing about the security finding guns a few times. so there were pretty much 2 groups of people there: regular people who just go to school or thugs. then i transferred to another school which was a super nerdy school which was just like the stereotypical high school. there were jocks, bimbos, super nerds (lots of them by the way). but they weren't stupid like the people on that old show "The OC". the different types of people just hang out together (like the jocks hang out with other jocks). and i did see some girls being mean to some random people for no apparent reason. so that was the closest thing i've seen to a stereotypical high school like the ones on TV. so i guess they really do exist but i agree with what someone in this thread posted. i think that most people aren't clear cut stereotypes but most people are somewhere in the middle. though i seriously doubt ANY high schools are so stereotypical like they are shown on TV.
Probably somewhere in Europe. It may not be common in the states but optional high schools are pretty common elsewhere in the world. Though most people in my country still go because the governments wants us to. Back on subject. I don't really know what to say about my school because while it doesn't exactly fall into most of the American stereotypes, we do have the bully that mess around with people and the nerd and other things. I guess they're just not that common over here.
Yup, Finland to be specific. The law says that students have to complete 9 years of elementary and middle school, and after that you're free to choose whatever you wanna do. The majority go to high-school, but more and more people are starting to go to polytechnics. A few just go straight to work life. High-school usually starts here when the student is 16, in case you're wondering...
Most of my high school had these stereotypes, but that was mostly freshmen and sophomores. It seems the older we get, the more we discover ourselves and our own niches. Not to say that it was ALL of the freshmen/sophomores (9th and 10th graders, first and second year of high school for those who don't know our system). Most of the stereotypes did exist all through high school though, but it seemed to be more of a dominant thing. Like a guy would obviously be a jock, but he could still be smart or a gamer or a pothead or whatever, but the jockness was the most prevalent trait.
