Are US schools really like this?

It's not really what country you live in, because the truth is that society presents teenagers with certain values, and they accept them. Being a teenager I know that it makes it so much easier to fit into to something, whether it be a style or a group of people. Magazines and television and movies give us these ideas, and when teenagers see stuff on movies, they want it to be that way. It has been, and will always be, in all of the schools that I've been in, that the people who are considered 'popular' don't try, they just have more friends. They dress the way that the other students want to, listen to the music that they play on the radio, or the music channels. They follow these ideas knowing that it's what other people like, and they might like them too. I know of a few people who try to work their way up this 'popularity' ladder, and they do exactly what Alvin did in this movie, tried to be exactly like them. And these people never really are as 'popular' as they want.

The type of High School you go to vary. I am a sophomore in High school and popularity isnt as important as it used to be. Everybody has their own set of friends and no one really cares about the others. Yes there are the so called "preps"(popular people), who will always be the homecoming queen, or the MVP's or what not. They get more attention, than any of the rest of the people. Now Middle School and Junior, popularity seemed like it was the most important thing in the world. I wasnt exactly popular, but i hung out with girls who were considered to be popular and so therefore i was labeled as a snob and a "prep" by people i didnt even know or talk to at all. I didnt dress like them or anything like that. I just always talked to them and hung out with them. Elementary School, popularity started being in. I was on both sides of the spectrum. For example the first elementary school i went to, everyone liked me and i was popular. My friends and i were a clique that was a branch off of the inner circle meaning the "in crowd." After a year an a half i switched schools. At my new school, no one liked me. I was one of the most unpopular kids at school. Now Preschool,prek/kindergarten was different, everyone was pratically friends. sure we had our own fights of not wanting to share toys or the all so famous "I'm not your friend no more" or even infectious disease called "cooties" that were spreading by just a mere touch was inact, but we all got over it and went back to being friends. it is like a cycle over and over again. One thing in life that we all have to agree on is.....that people change. I have had friends in Middle/Junior high that i kind of drifted away from once we got to High School. It is ok, it only gives me a chance to make more new friends. We all got to learn to except change, denying that change wont happen is like denying that you wont die. It is going to happen, whether we like it or not. enough said.