For teens: Describe the peer groups at your school?

Question

Which one do you belong to? How do you view it?

What kinds of pressures have you found most challenging to deal with and how did you handle them?

What stereotypes do you think are associated with your peer group. How have the stereotypes affected yours or your peer group's behaviors?

Answer 1

At my school there are very different and funny groups. There are the stoners who like to get high and drink and have fun.. you like to make trouble in school and make people laugh.. you want attention!! And they kinda are the popular people in my school but everyone looks up to the preps. The smart pretty/handsome intelligent preps.. i'm considered one of the preps even though I basically hang out with different people because I don't believe in just hanging out with one kind of people.. kinda weird realli!! And there's the jocks who are the total hero's at our school.. and your either a normal.. where your just there and people like you or not.. or your gothic.. and kinda dark and deepp.. and a total loser!!

Answer 2

I belong to an artsy sort of "clique". Band and choir kids, etc, I guess.

There are undeniable cliques at my school (goth, punk, skater, prep, jock, nerd) as there are at any, but the group I fall in with don't work like that. We're all different, but most of us just love art and music.

They don't pressure each other, and there are no stereotypes, except for being a little "hyper" sometimes, and that's something we have exhibited, so that's how that became a "stereotype".

I've gone to different high schools, and the same is true for both. Cliques don't matter any more. They may shape the way you act and dress, and same may apply peer pressure, but people more often float between, not caring if their two best friends are a prep and a punk.

Answer 3

I don't really belong to any peer group at my school because I try to mix and socialize with everyone and anyone who has a problem with that, well too bad for them.

I mix with everyone, prep, surfer dude, gangsta, wanksta (lol), gothic, emo, nerds, skateboarder dudes, "crazy-hair" people hehe...so I try not to subject myself to a certain group, instead I just try and make friends with everyone that seems decent.

About a couple of years ago actually...I belonged to the gangsta club, so it was kinda rowdy since some of the kids were bad influences, they did drugs a lot, some of them smoked, I never did that stuff though. A lot of people used to view the "gangsta" group as like the criminal group of my school. Usually, when I was in the gangsta group, they just ignored all the stereotypes and whenever anyone insulted them and heard some stereotype about them...they would just say, "F*** it" lol

Answer 4

I belong to the geeks, really, but I think of us as the high achievers. We're just like everyone else, just a bit more mature and interested in ensuring ourselves good lives. We also hang out with the dreamers, who sort of go through life as though they're high even though they don't take drugs. Hyper kids who spout nonsense... My group doesn't put many pressures on me, we just pressure ourselves to get good grades. One of the stereotypes associated w/ me and my peers is that we're mostly lesbian, which pisses me off. I have no problem with lesbians, but I hate homosexuality being used as an insult and associated with specific groups. I was insulted so much in early jr. high that I bacame paranoid and was automatically rude to anyone I didn't know who talked to me.

Answer 5

There are two groups; the annoying preps/jocks who copy off of others to get good grades and stay in their gay cheer leading and wrestling, make fun of others, talk about others behind their backs and to their faces, get into fights with each other, dress like hobos, wear WAY too much makeup, get ugly layered hair that looks like it's been ripped up and glued back together with gum, and spend 99% of their lives thinking of how to make others feel bad.
The other group is my group; the group where there is limited drama, no one cares how anyone looks or acts, doesn't have trouble talking to each other, accept each other, be crazy, and have tons of friends.
The "preps/jocks" are only friends with each other, while the rest of us have more friends than them because we are just all friends.
It's sad, really.

Answer 6

The get along with everyone group.

Their trying to stereotype us, but can't just put a label on us so they seem frustrated beyond explanation with the fact that we don't care about having to fit into anywhere.

They probably think we're sons and daughters of hippies that make love not war. Live and let them live.

I think we affect theirs', though... Cos we don't care what our peers think.

Answer 7

im pretty sure that the groups are basically the same as they have always been. Jocks, nerds, hicks, misfits, rich kids, white trash, all the sub-groups like punkers, emo's, goth, geeks, sluts, fatties, beautiful people, racists, druggies, etc etc. Usually the lines are blurred somewhat, I remember that i wasnt too interested in all that really, i had a group of friends from my small grade school, and hung out with them and their friends. Unless you are a sheep, the pressure isnt too much and after a couple years who cares about it all anyway.

Answer 8

In our school basicly theres the:

Jocks
Preps
Fat kids
Nerds
Popular
Good looking
World of Warcraft group (WOW)
Stoners
Class Clowns
and theres the ocassional loner in the corner


Personaly I think placing people in groups doesn't really classify who they really are as a person. I hang out with the Goodlooking group, Popular, Jocks. They're all my friends, but not everyone only hansg out with the same group.

Answer 9

i belong to the nothing. i am my own group and my group only.
i view it as good. im not the same as everyone else. at every school, there's supposed to be about 10 people out of place. not like that here. im the only one. i feel no pressure at all. my peers are ignorant and self-centered. as i said, i have no group. but if you have to say, im almost goth/emo. which i hate. im all motley crue. don't think twice about that. i think my friends are trying to fit in, which they aren't. and they never will.

Answer 10

my school is so diverse culture wise people from all over the city come to our school i guess you can call the group I'm in the popular group but we are different from the stereo type we are pretty much nice to everyone we have fun and sometimes we are kinda of loud i think the only problem is perhaps the standard you have to live up to because even though we might be "popular" we still are teased if we are above a certain weight, if we aren't physically attractive or even if we aren't intelligent and happy all the time. i think people in my school expects perfection from my friends and i ,and it puts a lot of pressure on us. personally i feel the need to be nice to everyone all the time even when you are
unhappy. there are no sick days in my school everyone has to play the role they are given or they are no longer "popular"