Do you feel that it was necessary in your development ( not educationally) I mean did you learn anything socially that helps now. do you find that the cliques that were popular in highschool seem shallow and unprepared for the real world or does this aid them in the real world?
2007-02-09 19:05:54 · 21 answers · asked by Natashya K 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
High school was a necessary evil.
I could go into a rant about educational lackings from high school but that is not what you seek.
High school did help me in one noticeable way: it helped me develop a thick skin and helped me learn to deal with interpersonal adversity. Some people have permanent damage from high school ribbing, some develop a thick hide and the ribbing actually helps solidify their own self-opinion.
I fell into the "solidify their own self-opinion" category.
I believe that those who are home-schooled or in a very tightly controlled private school are at a disadvantage because they are not as prepared to deal with interpersonal conflict in the adult world.
It also helped me learn to fight although I only rarely had to. It helped me learn what is worth fighting over and this is why I rarely faught.
I was not in any clique and did not "run" with any crowd. Cliques seemed as trivial and shallow to me back then as they do now. I perferred to just "do my own thing". I learned much about racism and I had my current beliefs in it further reinforced.
I would think that the "popular kids" would be at a disadvantage in adult life because adult life is not going to care about high school popularity.
2007-02-10 08:50:50 · answer #1 · answered by j 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I talk with very few of the friends that I had in highschool. When you go to college you really end up meeting so many more people then you ever will in highschool where you basically grew up with everyone. The cliques that you see now will break up because one will get married right out of high school, one will get pregnant, one will get fat, and so on. Does this better prepare them? NO really when your 18 or 19 you are no where close prepared for the real world. Socially you are going to change and find different people. I wouldn't vex about it just be a good person and you will be fine.
2007-02-09 19:12:52 · answer #2 · answered by JDUB 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am 48 years old. I graduated H.S. in 1976.
Looking back I wish I had been more assertive and stood up more for myself.
So socially it taught me as an adult that I don't want to be the way I was in H.S.
I think what some of the cliques talked about in H.S. may have prepared them more for the real world than I was prepared.
I was sort of on the outside, because I didn't believe in bad-mouthing people. I'm glad I was in that respect true to myself in not stabbing others in the back. But still wish I had been more open and opinionated, in a nice way.
It's hard to answer this question, because there are so many different kinds of cliques.
Hope something I wrote answered your question.
It is a good, thinking question ! Thanx !
2007-02-09 19:13:06 · answer #3 · answered by flyinghawk0727 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, high school was a sad, lonely time for me. I suppose I did learn a lot about myself and how to interact with people, but I don't believe it was neccessary socially. The way I was treated has an effect on me still, and I still have nightmares where I am in some sort of school setting. And for the record, I wasn't even invited to my 10 year reunion so it definately is not all in my head.
2007-02-09 19:30:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As I look back, highschool was a breeze. At the TIME though, I thought it was a nightmare.
Then I experienced REAL life.
High School is High School. You are young, with grownups telling you what to do and kids your age reacting to you.
Technically, Highschool is just an extention of your ...blah blah blah...
Pretend I said something profound.....my phone is ringing...
2007-02-09 19:11:27 · answer #5 · answered by Debi in LA 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
theyre both, there was a time i was bullied because im petite in 1st year highschool, i always went up busted , till 3rd year I gain some height from 4'11 to 6'1 so I was you know some SUPERSAIYAN and they respected me for that, I became the Fist of our section against gangs and frats and also I found my bandmates till now im 4th yr collge theyre still my best buddies, from all sorts of gimmicks and troubles, from the Girls we loved. Highschool is one of the best in my life.
grace to you
2007-02-09 19:11:15 · answer #6 · answered by Kyo_kusanagi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a bad experience because I don't make many friends and no one recognized me in school. I was a loser... Now I'm in college hoping for a better life...
2007-02-09 19:10:21 · answer #7 · answered by procrastinator 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hated high school.
I ran away from home on christmas day when I was 16 and became a go-go dancer, a stripper, a thief and then a nightclub act.
Who needs school. Bah!
2007-02-09 19:09:02 · answer #8 · answered by Dawn Davenport 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
wonderful, I learned how to roll joints, drink a six pack of Beer in 45 minutes (free period), and my sexual fantasy was filled, I never went to class, they put a beautiful park with a pond next to the H.S., I bombed out with "Incompetence" and "F's", how could you get a ZERO in Gym, I guess I should have shown up. I told my mother that I was going to night school in January with my other idiot friends, and she laughed and said "Enjoy summer school in 12th grade", I had to go to summer school AFTER 12th grade "BUMMER SUMMER", I went on to college, once I realized that "I" had to pay for this, I became an "HONOR STUDENT" in College............ THANKS MOM !
2007-02-09 19:17:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I learned that pulling a knife on the quarterback of the football team was a good way to keep him off my case. He's a crackhead these days. Phuckin' loser...
2007-02-09 19:10:07 · answer #10 · answered by RoninShonen 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋