Perhaps many of you will think I am completely oblivious to the true atmosphere of our school when you read this, but I don't find that our school has a "plastic" like clique, or even one dominate clique. When I mentioned this to a friend of mine, she suggested that this was because there is too many egotistical people within the school for one to ever be able to take over the vast majority. We have abundent amounts of beautiful, wealthy and intelligent people in our school, how would we ever pick one?
I like to think that our school is filled with mature young adults who have had plenty of anti-bullying assemblys to thank for the lack of cliques, but I'll leave the decision up to you.
My cousin is going into the eigth grade this year and it's almsost documentary worthy how mean her friends are to each other. It seems like the sterotype of "mean girls" has gone down a few generations to the teeny boppers. But how does this attitude stop at the highschool level?Why?Or does it?
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I agree, I've never noticed our school having a super dominate crew. I think there was more of that in middle school. Maybe once your a little older you change friends so much and get to know so many different people on different levels there's really no need to hate one another and challenge crews, because your friends with people from all over the school.
Although there aren’t cliques like in the movie, there are still groups that have mean people as their leaders. There is one group in particular that basically hates me. I used to be best friends with almost everyone in the group. One day, my best friend turned on me and spread nasty rumors. What was comical about the whole thing was that the things she said about me weren’t true about me- they were true of her. Anyone who knows me knows that the rumors were exactly that- a rumor. My “friend,” however, did poison some people at Groves to think of me as a horrible person. I have had the pleasure of meeting some of these people; they have since changed their attitude about who I am and who she is. I have to work with this particular girl every week. The people we work with have taken note of how nice I am to her and how mean she is to me. I try to keep everyone else out of the conflict, but that’s a hard feat to accomplish when the girls want to understand why she is constantly cruel to me.
Of course, I like to think that this one girl doesn’t have enough power to make the entire group of people hate me. I do give some credit to my other ex-best friend. He turned on me when I began dating a different guy. My “friend” thought that it was his turn to be my boyfriend- even though I had spent the entire last year telling him that it would never happen. He hooked up with a girl to prove how worthy he was of me, but I couldn’t have cared less by that point who he did or didn’t do. I tried to patch up our friendship by being happy for him that he found a girlfriend, by throwing a birthday party in his honor, and other such activates. He took all of these as insults, so I gave up.
It is sad that some of the people in that group understand that I’m not any different than I was before. These are the people who are stuck in the middle. They are afraid that they might be next if they associated too closely with me. I don’t blame them.
Do I think there are plastics and such at Groves? No. Do I think that there are groups that have mean people in them that control other members of the group as in the “plastics?” Yes.
I hope that one day, the mean people will learn what Regina learned, being mean can only get you so far in life.
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