Whats it like at an american highschool?

Question

i'm from england was wondering like is there the really popular 'mean girls' and cheerleaders and the the dorks and so on.I just want to see what its like compared to the schools in england

Answer 1

well yea there are def. some mean people but i have found that there are much more nice people than mean..welcome to america!

Answer 2

Ours schools are a little different. I have a bunch of people in my school who dress up like gangsters, even if they're white. I heard they even were some gangs in my school, and I live in a town in New Hampshire. I couldn't imagine a city high school. Most of the cheerleaders are mean, rude and annoying, but there are some nice ones who are good people, but there is a sterotype that they are all mean, and everyone thinks they are mean. Nowadays, some people are actually considering dorks cool now, as long as they have a sense of humor. There is a smart kid who looks like a geek in my classes, butr he is really funny, so everyone laughs at him if he makes a joke or something. I've seen a lot of popular people talk to him. So I think they're similar, but not the same.

Answer 3

Most of the time it's a lot like the movies that have been made about it. Only of course, they exaggerate, and the kids in the movies dance way better!!!

So, if you look at Wayne's World, Napoleon Dynamite, and some of those other films, and then take out the exaggeration, that's pretty much what it's like!!!

In the US there is a strong movement to try to get every single kid to go to high school and graduate. So all the kids who are brilliant are mostly mixed in with kids who are average and other kids who are less than average. Plus, in some American cities there are a lot of immigrants -- in one city near me when they asked the kids what language their family speaks at home, they got 90 different languages.... So, in some places the schools are really diverse, but some places in the suburbs the whole school is mostly white kids who are descendants of immigrants from 200 years ago, so those schools are not diverse at all.

THere are some private schools in the USA -- many are "parochial" - that is, private day schools run by the Roman Catholic church. And then there are private (what the English call "public") schools for the children of rich families, like President Bush and his father and President Kennedy and several other presidents went to.

Answer 4

I'm from a small town. So, I might only have an Upstate New York view, but in our school, the mean girls are all the rich ones, and the cheerleaders are a variety of girls that have some reason they want to do it, and we rip at each other all the time, because we just clash. The "preppy" boys are cruel and heartless. Then we have the "little kids" who look like you're going to kill them. The majority of the people are just cool people to hang out with, with the Rich girls and guys as the exception.

Answer 5

Well there are cliques, but it's NOTHING like the movies. The movies exaggerate it. The cliques were not so stereotypical at my hs. At my school (ironically, my hs is actually named American High School) there were the cheerleaders (and u kno wat? MOST OF THEM WERE FAT! ha ha! Gorgeous, but fat), jocks ( not all of them looked atheltic), pretty popular crowd (a couple were fat and ugly), nerds (lots of good looking ones! They weren't antisocial either. Most were involved in lots of school events), goths, etc. But no one was so mean to each other. It's like every clique just hung out with themselves and would sometimes talk to other cliques, but there wasn't really any fighting or any drama. A lot of the jocks were actually smart too. Of course there's the occassional fight or girl getting pregnant, but all in all, everyone's pretty nice. The school is very diverse and there are so many activities that it's hard not to interact with other cliques. Oh yea, everyone thought of themselves as a dork. Everyone called each other a dork.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Yes. Everything you could imagine about an American Highschool is true. There are "mean girls", whores, jocks, goths. Everyone uses everyone else. It's all a big orgy, and it's really horrible. I am happy I'm out. The best in America is college.

Answer 8

its nothing like how you see it in the movies
fyi i live in nyc

my school is 84% girls because it was once an all girl school. the cheerleaders, baseball, dance, football team are normal people. no clique. my school has almost 3,000 people, so we cant really have the popular kids. the people that stand out are the players. theres people in my grade that ive never seen in my life, thats how many of us there are. i like that though, always meting new people, theres no "it" group. were all just cool

Answer 9

yeah. there are little groups of people. some are popular, some are dorks. i really wouldn't think it would be much different in england. there might be differences in what is considered popular or what is considered to be unpopular but...i don't know.

Answer 10

in my school, yeah there are the different cliques, but its not like they don't get along with each other, and some of the "cool" kids do talk to whoever, "cool" or "uncool"...fat ppl talk to skinny ppl...cool talk to the nerds...and yes...there are going to be stupid ppl that think the world revolves around them...but what schools are protrayed as in the movies are NOT what schools really are in America...or atleast South Florida's public schools...

Answer 11

It's tough as hell for a lot of us... Same cliques, same judgement, probably is the same all over the world. I mean, we're all the same humans so it makes sense.

People are the same the world over - we affiliate with others based on commonalities, often to the exclusion of others who are different.