I’m a junior, and my class is very small. (35 people.) We have a group of 5 to 10 “popular kids.” They are all female, pretty, social, and most of them are pets of our bitchy French and Spanish teacher, Mrs. Francis. I started calling them the “Master Race” last year, since that’s how they seemed to think of themselves. This year, I’ve been calling them the “Blond Squad”, but I have to stop, because they threatened to take me up for harrassment. One of the best moments in Spanish last year was when my friend stood up, gave a “sieg heil” salute, and said, “I’m not a Jew, Mrs. Francis!” She was rather pissed.
For this year’s class elections, we founded a group called “The Resistance”. Our motto is: The iron fist to break the plastic smile. We try to keep the Blond Squad from controlling our class. The same girl has been our class president for every year that we’ve been in highschool, but this year we got a Resistance member elected Vice President. One of the popular girls won at first, but I checked the election results, and she hadn’t won the 50% majority needed. After a lot of bitching, a runoff was held, and the Resistance girl won by one vote. It’s a proud day to be part of the organized opposition.
The stereotype is incredibly accurate. In my high school, the “populars” ran the show. They got all the attention, never got in trouble, and were favored by the guidance counselor when it came time to apply for scholarships. I was the valedictorian of my class, but unfortunately I wasn’t in the “popular” group—and for that reason, among others, the guidance counselor hated and ignored me. Needless to say, I didn’t get any scholarships.
Kinda dumb: For the popular kids in my school, this accounts for 95% of the guys and about 45% of the girls. The rest are average or above-average, none what I would call exceptional or geniuses.
Into sports/cheerleading: That and majoretting. The ones who aren’t are those that feed off the ones who are.
Unbelievably cruel: About 85% of them are assholes/bitches. 10% are nice when they feel like it, the other 5% percent are genuinely kind people.
I’m tired of the same people getting homecoming maids, class officers.
I was so thrilled this year when I was elected to leadership positions in almost every organization I’m a part of in my high school. Of course, only the popular people get class oficers, but they seem to forget that student government offices look better on college applications.
I just graduated from a high school of 2500 in the Chicago suburbs. Not to sound bitter, but the popular kids at my school were as true to the stereotype as you can imagine. There were, of course, a few exceptions, but for the most part they all looked down on the rest of the student body. You had to be attractive, athletic, and somewhere in the average intelligence range to be a member of the popular group. They didn’t cause a whole lot of problems for everyone else, but I wouldn’t call them “nice” by any stretch of the imagination. They were on top, they knew it, and they acted like it.