Were there cliques when you went to high school?

In my high school there were levels of popularity, but not such easily defined groups like in this film.

The jocks/cheerleaders didn't all hang out together, the nerds, the "freaks", etc. Some people were all three of those at the same time.

Graduated in '02.

Yes, there were cliques, but they were not very rigid. At my highschool there were four doors (North, E, S, W), everyone hung out a door, your social circle basically determined what doors you stood at. At one you'd have the skaters/punks/metalheads/goths/stoners, at another you had the drama and art kids (we called them the "art fags" back then), another would have the stereotypical jocks/preps/cheerleaders/"thugs" (anyone who liked rap, basically) and the last would be whomever was left over, the especially nerdy primarily.

Now there wasn't much animosity between the cliques, mostly they were compartmentalized, but also because a lot of kids tended to move through several crowds, big house parties were always a mixed bag of people. Also the "cliques" could be then further broken down into smaller groups of close friends who hung out on a daily basis but merged together when someone who moved between several would plan something... Bush parties, house parties, etc. Otherwise the bigger cliques only existed at school.

I fell into the punk rocker crowd but my girlfriend through most of highschool was one of the artsy kids.

When I was in Comprehensive School from 95-00 here were cliques, but there was no distinct line between them. I was in the outsider group but I had friends in all the other groups too and it wasn't uncommon for lots of crossover to happen.

Class of '91 here.

I went to high school in Texas and yes, there were cliques, and I was on the outside looking in. Anyone who went to high school in Texas can tell you the two biggest cliques were the football players and the cheerleaders. It was like being part of a fraternity or sorority. Some of them were nice and accepting of others and some of them had egos the size of Texas. If you were a cheerleader, you could write your own ticket. You will get into a good college, a good sorority and a get a good job afterwards if you chose to go that route (Cheerleading along with good grades, and decent test scores look good on a college application since cheerleading sings "leader", "team player" and "community involvement"). Many of the cheerleaders I know from high school (and am friends with today) do an annual vacation together called a "girls trip" because many of them still live in the area. One of them organizes our class reunions because high school was good times for her. Our 25th is this year (and they plan on doing a Duck Dynasty theme, which a lot of us find offensive), but as with the 5, 10, 15 and 20 year reunions, I will be RSVPing in the resounding "no". I am 2000 miles and 25 years away from it, and even if it was financially possible, I still wouldn't go. For me, high school, along with the mostly crappy memories, are where they belong: in the past. Sometimes it is best not to fool with the memories.

MM

Yes
I saw kids get picked on but nothing like movies make it out too be

I had a small group of friends but most people in my class probably wouldn't really remember me.

Football wasn't big at my school and nobody really cared who was on the team and that had no impact on popularity. Kids with money, nice clothes and nice cars were usually the most popular

I graduated high school in 1992, and there were cliques in my high school. While my high school was private, it was often referred as the "un-private" private school since the school was anything but your typical WASPy private school.

The cliques in the my school were the jocks, which were primarily the football players and their friends (although there were a couple soccer players in this group); the black kids and their friends (yes there friends were the white kids who wanted to be black); the actors had a small clique; and of course the dorks. The girls cliques were harder to define but there were several cliques of friends.

We all for the most part got along, there was never any jocks beating up the actors incident. If two people did not get along it was usually kept between them and never escalated into anything more than that. As a football player/jock I can tell you there were numerous times when two members of our clique went at it.

I have a hard time believing cliques to not exist anymore. I just have a feeling that the jocks are no longer the most popular as it is no much cooler to be a computer geek. Also seems money plays a much bigger role in kids popularity, not that it did not when I was in school. However, when I was in high school there were several well of kids who were dorks and the jock cliques had kids whose parents were super wealthy and some who were on a full scholarship.

No, not really. Class of '01. My high school had over 5,000 students. There were just too many of us - we all mingled.

Now middle school, that's a different story. Definitely cliques in middle school. Headbangers, nerds, the popular bitchy girls, the wrestlers, etc.

The things in middle school that were so important to us weren't important anymore by high school.

The calls are coming from inside the house.

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