For teens: Describe the peer groups at your school?

Question

How old are you?

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

i'm 17 years old yo

i don't belong to just one group, but the main group i hang with is a random assortment of diff types of people...i'm bored of my highschool life...can't wait to get to college, but it's alright i guess...

i don't get "pressures" except to hang out with people more...but i'm not into socializing that mux anymore...kinda into my studies and being pretty...mmm...people always wanna hang out...i'm busy a lot anyways:( sorry...

my group...i have noooo clue...mmm...smart, fashion, geeky, musicians///my main group i hang with...i dunno...i have friends under every "stereotype"...
i go to school in California so...my school is def NOT very biased and stuff...very open nice people:D
ok
xaooo:D
ps: i was an exchange student in Chile so...i'm kinda an oddball anyways yo
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Answer 2

14

we're the not so popular people that don't get along with the losers or preps, but we get along with the losers much better.

The pressures I've have had are not being popular and not belonging with some of the students in my grade and not being on the same brainwave as they are. My group has many other people that we talk to other than eachother, mostly any other group than the preps.
I've handled them by not letting them getting to me, I'm the shy kid that can be in the back of the room watching or with the rest of the group in an activity, it just depends on the situation.

We are probably considered...misfits, some of us are band geeks, one of us is gay (he's the only guy in our group) almost all of us have all A's or have an A-B average, so we're not stupid, we're just a bunch of friends that have a mix of different people that get along together, if you get what I mean. A coupld of us are loud and roudy and some of us are quiet and keep to yourselves. But our group does laugh a lot.
The great thing about how we deal with the pressure is that we rarely feel any. we all have eachothers backs and we stick up for each other and I rarely feel the peer pressure!

Hope I didn't confuse you!

Answer 3

Okay, well, I'm 15 and I go to a diverse high school in a diverse, working/middle class neighbourhood. I'm not really in a distinct peer group but it seems like the people in school know who my closest friends are since I'm usually with them - we're usually a group of 4. We have been called rockers, but that's not really right, considering not everyone of us likes rock. Uh...most challenging pressure? Probably the pressure to stay skinny because I was one of the small-skinny people. And probably the pressure to be liked by everyone, because, well, who doesn't want friends? I felt like the least popular out of all my friends, who seemed to be constantly mobbed by others at school. And last question, like I said, people have called us rockers, and it doesn't really affect us. We just sort of brush it off and laugh. There are so many groups at my school...yes, I suppose we all know that it's wrong to stereotype, but it just makes things so much easier to stick a label on a bunch of kids. At my school, we have the Rich White Kids/Skaters, the Ghetto Gangstas, Stoners, the South Asians, the AZNs, Emos/Punks, Loners, Hackey-Sackers, Niners, Athletes...there are so many, and they all mingle with each other (except for the rich white skater kids) it's kind of hard to label them all....oh, and of course there are the normal kids.

Answer 4

I belong to an artsy type of "clique". Band and choir babies, etc, i wager. There are elementary cliques at my college (goth, punk, skater, prep, jock, nerd) as there are at any, besides the undeniable fact that the team I fall in with do not artwork like that. we are all diverse, yet maximum individuals only love artwork and music. they don't stress one yet another, and there are not any stereotypes, except for being a touch "hyper" each now and then, and that is something we've exhibited, so as it truly is how that grew to develop right into a "stereotype". i have lengthy gone to diverse severe colleges, and an identical is genuine for both. Cliques do not count number number any more suitable. they could structure the way you act and gown, and same could practice peer stress, yet human beings more suitable usually drift between, no longer worrying if their 2 perfect friends are a prep and a punk.

Answer 5

15

The peer groups are weird.

I belong to the "emo/scene" but Labeling is tarded

There are the higher class preppy cheerleader/jocks

Then the rest of the atheletic people

Then rich people

Then band nerds/chorus

Then the "scene/emo" people.

Then the freaky weird people...

Peer groups often fight and make jokes about other peer groups.

It seems like everyone I hang out with hates everybody who is not in our "group"

Answer 6

im 14

the groups are..drugee's and smokers, the preps, jocks, athletes, nerds, emo's, a few goths.., punks, the music kids...and the o so famous losers, o ya and then theres the "floaters" like me that dont really have a group, were kinda a mix. and then on top of that there are the cool pple and the neutral pple and the losers (non-cool pple), im neutral.. so ya.

as for pressurs.. just having to look good... lol and i handle them by (trying to) look good...

well persenally, i have a mowhawk, i dress like a european lol (considered gay looking by sum)....with a bit of "skater" look.. so usually when pple that dont know me c me they typically give me bad looks...which kinda sucks.. but o well

Answer 7

im 14.

i live in england so this may be different to everyone elses.

we have the.... drugies & 'ard' people.. retards.. chavettes.. bitches.. geeks.. slags.. the anyones.. rest of em

im kinda 'the anyones' because i get on with all of the groups of people, some are more annoying than others but oh well. the majority of my school are slags tbh..

Answer 8

13

i belong to a group in the middle-not poular, not not poular either. i view it as...well...my friends

i haven't been pressured

some people in my group are bossy, I however try not to be, so I don't really know the answer to that question.

Answer 9

im in 7th grade and im apart of the "emo"group, but thats just wut ppl call us cuz we wear black, but all the ppl in my group are happy and have cut-free wists=D
at my scool there r the preps, athletes, nerds, ppl u dont notice and us(me and my friends) i see my group as the awesomest ppl on the planet. haha