The Clique Quandary

Cliques! The word it says at all! We  all have cliques in our schools. We have the needs, the jokes, the desi-blondes, the cool crowd, the winnable crowd, and the misfits! Everyone is aware of which clique they are in and the social chain at school continues. The atmosphere is predictable, the socially retarded nerds are poked at and made fun of daily by the jokes, all for what? The cool crowd does their thin; the weirdest do their thing, their very weird things, which get many snooty comments. But life goes on.

The nerds are identified by their properly buttoned shirts, their pants worn too high (the logic bieng: so they don’t fall off), thick rimmed glasses, a biology book in one hand and calculator in the other. But why they are classified? Why are they judged? Why are they looked down upon geeks? Because they are smart? We should applaud them for it, not smirk at them. So what if they rather look at frog intestines and amoebas rather than football game or a soap opera?

Then we have the jocks who have too much ego to admit their love for literature and art. And why? They are afraid of being laughed at! All the time they have been encouraged to play sports, they don’t believe they can do anything else any more.

Next comes Desi-Blondes. They are arrogant, they are mean, they are snobs! But maybe there is more to them than hair and makeup. And why do they have to make you feel so unbelievably low? Why do they treat the world around them like slaves who have nothing better to do than to worship them? The “Winnable Crowd” (the so called “cool crowd”) The phony accents, messed up hair-do, bragging about the conquest they only dream about, all in all, more than fifty percent of the student body.

The cool crowd. The rebels, they don’t care of what others think of them. These people are not ashamed of who they are and they are not out to impress anyone. They develop a passion for a certain thing, be it music,art, or sports.

The “Misfit” people are labelled misfits because they do not represent the cliched images of other high school cliques. They don’t it beneath them to be nice to others. They take an equal interest in everything, from academics, to sports, to family obligations, to music, to friends, to food!.

The question is, why judge people? They haven’t found themselves as yet, they don’t know thier ‘inner calling. These cliques confine them to a narrow train of thought, they mind wrap them in to believing that making it in high school is the most important thing in their life. Making it to the top of the social chain of school is not the only things that matters. The ‘popular’ and ‘cool’ people are actually so confused and insure, that they feel the need to insult others to feel better. Maybe they grew up in an environment where their interest weren’t encouraged,or may be they had a stable role model for themselves, so at an environment where their interest weren’t encouraged , or may be they never had a stable role model for themselves, so at school, they think they finally have a place to prove themselves (however they poorly achieve this task).

There is not a single high-school movie that won’t portray at least some of these cliques. Judging people and labelling them at such a vulnerable age when they are very impressionable ends up destroying these characters rather than moulding them.