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What is your school like?
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Flora
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Yes.
Well, there is a self-titled "popular group," but not any real cliques per se.
I seriouly hope not. It's a private Catholic all-girls high school. (well then again one of the freshmen was caught selling acid or something and got expelled, leaving one of my friends Bio-partner-less.)
Other than the self-described ones, no.
Honestly, I LOVE my school.
Flora
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Actually my friend can kinda be considered popular cause she can make friends with pretty much anybody.
Jolty
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Do I like it: half of the time, yes. The times I don't like it are when I'm left alone or in graphics class.
Groups/cliques: year 10s and year 11s are shit, they have cliques. Us sixth formers, we all talk to mostly everyone else. But I guess there are the Big Common Room people and Small Common Room people. I am the latter :D
Druggies/alcoholics: the druggies are very very discreet, everyone EVER except like five people get pissed every night. Oh and the girls who get knocked up drop out of school, or at least I think they do because we never see them. But they are there I mean jesus this is /Doncaster/
Popular kids: again, year 10s and 11s are shit. Sure in our year some people are better known than others but nobody really gives a shit about that anymore.
I'm kinda meh about school... sixth form is fun and less stressful than year 10/11, but I'm lazy as /hell/ so not everything goes down well with me :(
edit: oh and in case you can't tell, we hate year 10 and 11. But mostly year 10. We even bitch about them with the teachers, it's awesome
How you Americans have classes with people from all grades is beyond me, if that happened here people would actually get murdered
Groups/cliques: year 10s and year 11s are shit, they have cliques. Us sixth formers, we all talk to mostly everyone else. But I guess there are the Big Common Room people and Small Common Room people. I am the latter :D
Druggies/alcoholics: the druggies are very very discreet, everyone EVER except like five people get pissed every night. Oh and the girls who get knocked up drop out of school, or at least I think they do because we never see them. But they are there I mean jesus this is /Doncaster/
Popular kids: again, year 10s and 11s are shit. Sure in our year some people are better known than others but nobody really gives a shit about that anymore.
I'm kinda meh about school... sixth form is fun and less stressful than year 10/11, but I'm lazy as /hell/ so not everything goes down well with me :(
edit: oh and in case you can't tell, we hate year 10 and 11. But mostly year 10. We even bitch about them with the teachers, it's awesome
How you Americans have classes with people from all grades is beyond me, if that happened here people would actually get murdered
Storm Earth and Fire
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Yes. It is absolutely lazy compared to my last school. The rules are slowly growing more and more oppressive, but only because folks don't know how to break the rules/law.
Loose ones include jocks, stoners, ravers/traceurs (parkour kids, the groups seem interminably related), and Mexicans (They really do form their own social group). A hell of a lot of mixing, though, so the groups are only rough designations. Grade doesn't seem to make a difference.Claydol Girl said:
Yes. It's everywhere. Unavoidable, really, though folks here are careful about it, only real idiots drink and/or do drugs at school.Claydol Girl said:
Claydol Girl said:
Yes. My best friend there knows way too many people. Mostly, you can identify two, maybe networks of people who know each other.
Mirry
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I think it's superior to other schools (although I've never attended any other schools, I confess). It's a nice building though, remodeled about ten years ago. Nothing is falling apart, at least. XD And my classmates... well... there's a mix of good and bad, and they tend to be a bit close-minded, but they're not bad people on the whole.
I think cliques are more prevalent among the younger kids moreso than my grade (12th). My class... well, we have clear-cut groups of friends, but people from one group can talk to people in the other group and get along just fine. We aren't "exclusive".
Some people are into it, some aren't. I'd say there's more drinking than drugs. I wouldn't apply a label to my entire school, though... it depends on who you're hanging around. There are a lot of the self-righteous Christian type who would probably have a stroke if they saw somebody smoking a joint, but then there are complete stoners too.
There are some people who seem to get along with everybody... suppose you could call them "popular". This one girl in my English class, Tasha, is probably the sweetest person ever. Really, she's nice to EVERYBODY. xD
Jason-Kun
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Sorta. The teachers are nice and it offers good classes. Not so sure about the students though.
It's the PA (Performing Arts) students who stick together and then everyone else doesn't really care who their friends are. So the only group/clique is the PA group.
I've heard rumors, but I'm not sure if they are true.
There are some popular people yes, but for the most part everyone is equal.
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I guess I do. The workload is probably a lot more than at public schools, but the kidz and some of the teachers are pretty cool.
It used to be that we had a pretty obvious social ladder with a sort of "it clique" at the top which you were either in, or you were out, and then there were some likable people in the middle, and then there were nerdz. Now, there's still an "it clique", but they don't really go around bossing other people anymore like they own the school, and for the most part they're all pretty friendly (I mean I hang out with them like all the time). In fact, right now, the most popular kids, in the literal sense of the term, are a) this metalhead kid with a full beard (!) and a thick indian accent who talks in public about how much he jacks off and b) this self-proclaimed communist Asian kid who is a prodigy at both math and the piano. For srs.
We also don't have cliques divided up by fashion sense or music taste or subculture or anything. Everyone is basically either a preppy kid who shops at Abercrombie and Hollister or a kid who just wears whatever.
None at all, and, in fact, there's only one kid who has (allegedly) lost his virginity, and - get this - he gets made fun of for it. (I'm 14 btw, dunno if this is the norm but I'm pretty sure it isn't)
Dannichu
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My sixth form (two optional years of education when you're 16-18 where you get qualifications that get you into uni) was epic. There were about 70 of us and there weren't any distinct cliques; people had friendship groups, but everyone knew everyone else and if you went to the common room and the people you normally hung out with weren't there, you could just talk to anyone who was. You could sit next to anyone in class and talk to them and nobody'd care. I can't think of a single person I didn't like, and nobody looked down on anyone else.
You could wear whatever you wanted and nobody'd judge; I spent two years wearing the most random crap ever, and nobody in my year gave a damn (the kids in the lower years are another story, however).
Also, all the students were close with the teachers; our form tutor would bring in a cake whenever it was someone's birthday, the teacher and student band used to perform together, as a year group, we'd plan parties and the teacher's'd come and I have a bunch of my teachers friended on facebook. We were supposed to call our teachers by titles, but everyone just called them by their surnames, occasionally their first names.
And my biology and philosophy and ethics teachers used to spend lessons at a time complaining about the new headteacher with us XD
Lots and lots and lots of drinking happened (we had massive meetups at the local Cider Bar on people's birthdays), but few people were into drugs. A couple of my friends did weed (I chatted with some of the teachers about our year group and drugs when we all went camping for a weekend and it turns out they all thought I did weed, too), but that's about it.
I miss my year ;;
Not that uni isn't awesome. It's just so damn massive and I miss the closeness everyone had.
You could wear whatever you wanted and nobody'd judge; I spent two years wearing the most random crap ever, and nobody in my year gave a damn (the kids in the lower years are another story, however).
Also, all the students were close with the teachers; our form tutor would bring in a cake whenever it was someone's birthday, the teacher and student band used to perform together, as a year group, we'd plan parties and the teacher's'd come and I have a bunch of my teachers friended on facebook. We were supposed to call our teachers by titles, but everyone just called them by their surnames, occasionally their first names.
And my biology and philosophy and ethics teachers used to spend lessons at a time complaining about the new headteacher with us XD
Lots and lots and lots of drinking happened (we had massive meetups at the local Cider Bar on people's birthdays), but few people were into drugs. A couple of my friends did weed (I chatted with some of the teachers about our year group and drugs when we all went camping for a weekend and it turns out they all thought I did weed, too), but that's about it.
I miss my year ;;
Not that uni isn't awesome. It's just so damn massive and I miss the closeness everyone had.
I guess so.
Jocks, gangsters, emos, nerds, band kids.
in and around my circle, yes. a bunch.
obviously... they suck though
Vladimir Putin's LJ
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Sure. The school itself was built in the 70s but it looks very nice still.
Well it's a school with people of all nationalities of Europe, so we tend to gather in clumps of people from one language section. But inside said language sections you'd got all the stereotypes that are often true, sadly.
The Portuguese are the trouble-makers with the worst grades in the school, just like in real life., the Germans are the super-organized ones with the best grades, the Brits are drunks, the French are dicks and the Fins and Swedes are/were nearly all skaters or goths at some point.
Yeah, but it's just like drinking to fit in rather than for pleasure so I don't really get the point. I'm fine with people drinking because really, what do I care, but people who do it just to fit in are probably retards.
Lots of cigarette smoking just outside the walls ever since smoking under the outisde stairs was banned two years ago.
Drugs, yeah, I think there's a little weed-selling going on, and one time the police came to school and busted open a guy's locker and found some hard drugs (the guy was Portuguese, haha). But whenever a drugs counselor shows up he never says 'DON'T DO DRUGS KIDS FFF' he just goes 'HERE'S WHAT TO DO SO YOU DON'T FUCK YOURSELF OVER WHILE HIGH ON WHATEVER.'
Yeah, always.
For the record, I'm in a very prestigious private school and I can guarantee that kids in high-profile, posh schools get up to as much shit as kids in 'low-standard' schools.
Zeph
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Oh, yes.
Not really very many large ones, but most people do belong to a group of some size.
Unfortunately, there is quite a bit, yes.
The school is quite big. There's around 3000 students, and at first it's easy to get lost, but once you're used to it it isn't as scary as if first seems. Erm... it's apparently one of the best in Britain... Here, have a website.
@lex
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Do you like it?
I looooove it :D They claim my Programme (Performing Arts) is one of the best of its sort in Sweden, but I don't have much to compare with.
What kinds of groups/cliques do you notice?
There's the ever popular "bidansarna" (meaning the girls with dance as their second individual choice), although that's just being funny. In my class, it's two girl groups and the guy group, although we are all (well, most) good friends and can mix the groups a bit :3
Is there are lot of drug activity/drinking?
Drinking is insaneously high, although it drops a bit when people reach legal age (mostly because school becomes too demanding). As for drugs... a few months ago, there was some outrage about GHB in town, and apparently many had tried it, but I don't think it's too much drug use in my class...
Are there popular kids?
Well, no. A fewun- less popular, though :P
I looooove it :D They claim my Programme (Performing Arts) is one of the best of its sort in Sweden, but I don't have much to compare with.
What kinds of groups/cliques do you notice?
There's the ever popular "bidansarna" (meaning the girls with dance as their second individual choice), although that's just being funny. In my class, it's two girl groups and the guy group, although we are all (well, most) good friends and can mix the groups a bit :3
Is there are lot of drug activity/drinking?
Drinking is insaneously high, although it drops a bit when people reach legal age (mostly because school becomes too demanding). As for drugs... a few months ago, there was some outrage about GHB in town, and apparently many had tried it, but I don't think it's too much drug use in my class...
Are there popular kids?
Well, no. A few
College is bound to be a little different but I'll answer anyway.
Do I like it? No, but I have to go anyway.
Do I notice any cliques or groups? Not really, I don't pay that much attention to other people there. The only ones I've noticed are the trade/sport chavs that still act like highschoolers and pick on people and generally irritate everyone else who is actually there to work and learn.
Is there a lot of drug activity/drinking? Probably not. The only drug actually allowed on the premises is nicotine, and you have to be behind the 'yellow line' to smoke (people break that rule all the time). Though people constantly talk about their drinking adventures and there are a suprising amount of people who smoke pot but you would never have guessed until they mentioned it in a related conversation.
Are there populars? Not that I know of. Everyone is pretty much on the same level.
Do I like it? No, but I have to go anyway.
Do I notice any cliques or groups? Not really, I don't pay that much attention to other people there. The only ones I've noticed are the trade/sport chavs that still act like highschoolers and pick on people and generally irritate everyone else who is actually there to work and learn.
Is there a lot of drug activity/drinking? Probably not. The only drug actually allowed on the premises is nicotine, and you have to be behind the 'yellow line' to smoke (people break that rule all the time). Though people constantly talk about their drinking adventures and there are a suprising amount of people who smoke pot but you would never have guessed until they mentioned it in a related conversation.
Are there populars? Not that I know of. Everyone is pretty much on the same level.
Rotomize
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Do you like it?
Hell no! I'm only in grade nine and i feel like shooting myself! All the grade niners are either decent(my friends), fake(that 'friend' i posted about in the CC), jerks or self-obssessed lying populars who only care about themselves.
What kinds of groups/cliques do you notice?
Typical school groups. The Populars and the nonpopulars. One guess which group im in :P.
Is there are lot of drug activity/drinking?
Unless the old version of Bindis, the ones which had LSD count as drugs(lol i still have a couple of things i made with them), no drugs and/or alcohol. There is a guy at my bus stop that smokes. He sells cigarettes for money.
Are there popular kids?
Hell yes. The guys spike their hair up so much that I wouldn't be able to use a Zapdos as an analogy for it! And the girls noticably dye their hair. on school nights. And dying your hair is against the rules.
Hell no! I'm only in grade nine and i feel like shooting myself! All the grade niners are either decent(my friends), fake(that 'friend' i posted about in the CC), jerks or self-obssessed lying populars who only care about themselves.
What kinds of groups/cliques do you notice?
Typical school groups. The Populars and the nonpopulars. One guess which group im in :P.
Is there are lot of drug activity/drinking?
Unless the old version of Bindis, the ones which had LSD count as drugs(lol i still have a couple of things i made with them), no drugs and/or alcohol. There is a guy at my bus stop that smokes. He sells cigarettes for money.
Are there popular kids?
Hell yes. The guys spike their hair up so much that I wouldn't be able to use a Zapdos as an analogy for it! And the girls noticably dye their hair. on school nights. And dying your hair is against the rules.
Jetx
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Do you like it?
Not the lessons and the homework, but yeah, it's where my friends are.
What kinds of groups/cliques do you notice?
Well, there are groups within groups... the three main ones my friends and I would use are "chavs", "non-chavs" and "nerds". There's no emos, at least not in my year. Then again, you get the occasional year 8 chavette walk past where me and my friends hang out and say "oh yeah this is the emo place innit LOL"
Anyway, I normally hate stereotypes, but you really can lump chavs together, because, well, they really are identical. The "nerds" are just the weirdos, really... the people that form really tiny cliques and are generally quite unpleasant to be with (either because they haven't showered in a while, or because they're really snarly and rude). The "non-chavs" are just... everyone else. I hang out in an area with maybe 20-40 other year 10s (it really does vary a lot), and there are groups within that group, but most people get along. There's the scene kids, the somewhat geeky people, and your average joes; I fall into the somewhat geeky category, but nobody gives a crap because they're not dicks.
Is there are lot of drug activity/drinking?
Since we entered year 10, yeah... About a third of us think drugs and drinking is lame, a third do it, and a third say they want to try it. Most people who drink also do drugs. I honestly don't know what to think, and this has admittedly been a place of much inner conflict for me. I've found doing that shit at my age to be bad as far back as I can remember, but a lot of people I respect are doing it now, and I'm really torn on how to feel about them. Part of me doesn't care and is actually very curious, part of me considers the whole drugs-crowd just very dodgy. I don't plan to do that stuff myself.
Are there popular kids?
Eh, no, not really. Some of the aforementioned "nerd" crowd consider the group I hang out with to be 'popular', but they're just bitter, close-minded dicks. There are some people who really do well for themselves, you know, the super-extroverts and stuff, but the nice thing is they're on your level and won't treat you badly just because you're not as "well known" as they are. That said, there are a couple of stuck-up people who think they're better than everyone else.
whew. but yeah, the people at my school are all pretty cool, apart from the chavs.
Not the lessons and the homework, but yeah, it's where my friends are.
What kinds of groups/cliques do you notice?
Well, there are groups within groups... the three main ones my friends and I would use are "chavs", "non-chavs" and "nerds". There's no emos, at least not in my year. Then again, you get the occasional year 8 chavette walk past where me and my friends hang out and say "oh yeah this is the emo place innit LOL"
Anyway, I normally hate stereotypes, but you really can lump chavs together, because, well, they really are identical. The "nerds" are just the weirdos, really... the people that form really tiny cliques and are generally quite unpleasant to be with (either because they haven't showered in a while, or because they're really snarly and rude). The "non-chavs" are just... everyone else. I hang out in an area with maybe 20-40 other year 10s (it really does vary a lot), and there are groups within that group, but most people get along. There's the scene kids, the somewhat geeky people, and your average joes; I fall into the somewhat geeky category, but nobody gives a crap because they're not dicks.
Is there are lot of drug activity/drinking?
Since we entered year 10, yeah... About a third of us think drugs and drinking is lame, a third do it, and a third say they want to try it. Most people who drink also do drugs. I honestly don't know what to think, and this has admittedly been a place of much inner conflict for me. I've found doing that shit at my age to be bad as far back as I can remember, but a lot of people I respect are doing it now, and I'm really torn on how to feel about them. Part of me doesn't care and is actually very curious, part of me considers the whole drugs-crowd just very dodgy. I don't plan to do that stuff myself.
Are there popular kids?
Eh, no, not really. Some of the aforementioned "nerd" crowd consider the group I hang out with to be 'popular', but they're just bitter, close-minded dicks. There are some people who really do well for themselves, you know, the super-extroverts and stuff, but the nice thing is they're on your level and won't treat you badly just because you're not as "well known" as they are. That said, there are a couple of stuck-up people who think they're better than everyone else.
whew. but yeah, the people at my school are all pretty cool, apart from the chavs.
Noctowl
Everyone call me elf monster.
There's a lot of smoking, which is annoying.
Also, there are two buildings to walk to (one is up a hill, and one is down), so there is a lot of walking going on.
I don't see any cliques...everybody gets in thier own little gangs though...but all the people in the gang are all different. If that makes sense.
Also, there are two buildings to walk to (one is up a hill, and one is down), so there is a lot of walking going on.
I don't see any cliques...everybody gets in thier own little gangs though...but all the people in the gang are all different. If that makes sense.