<p>At my school nerds are treated really well. Straight A students just blend into normal life. No one has ever been bullied for being smart. It's considered a really good thing to have good grades. The "bad students", drug users, gang members, and just regular F students are impressed by smart people.
The only time there was a problem was in fifth grade when this kid (we're friends and still talk today) kept calling me a nerd. In elementary school society that was an insult. He did it for about a month, then on Halloween I started a fight with him after school...never happened again.
So what's your school like?</p>
<p>My school is very similar to yours. People think guys that go to my school are arrogant because we tend to excel in every area. This results in an internal atmosphere where, for example,the athletes are proud of our debaters and robotics team and vice versa. Nobody constantly talks about grades, though there are clear distictions in who gets what grades.</p>
<p>Nerds are revered in better schools, at least for most of the time. The more academically competitive a school is, the more the nerds are admired/honored.</p>
<p>Our school is far from academically competitive. It’s relatively low performing and the entire city is low income.</p>
<p>There aren’t any “nerds”…</p>
<p>Yeah my school isn’t like the stereotypical high school you see on TV shows. I’ve never seen anyone being stuffed into a locker or even having their books thrown on the ground. I’ve seen a few fights but they were usually over boys, girls or other random crap.</p>
<p>We don’t really have “nerds”… I mean, we do, but nobody treats them terribly? It’s hard to explain. For instance, I have a lot of nerdy tendencies (after all, I’m on CC, in marching band, & taking AP Chem), but I have friends in every group except for the “hardcore” ghetto kids. The only kids who get made fun of/are unaccepted are the ones who really lack social skills or the ability to understand basic social cues.</p>
<p>This may, however, be my class and the class of '13 only; I’ve heard that '15 & '16 don’t treat their ‘‘nerds’’ this well.</p>
<p>“Nerds” are treated the best by counselors and teachers. Smart kids have it better pretty much. There really isnt bullying at my school at all and my school is not the best. They are sought after for hw help all the time though.</p>
<p>They are chained naked to a metal table, whipped, and beaten to death.</p>
<p>@ccuser95-hahaha, what school are YOU attending!</p>
<p>Normal. Like no one cares.</p>
<p>We’re in our own little worlds of advanced courses, study/hw schedules, and language (which is called “English”).</p>
<p>No one really messes with or significantly interacts with us. We are a clique.</p>
<p>My school treats nerds like crap. At my school, everyone is divided into cliques. The nerds are stoned to death by the “popular” kids. Intelligence < social status at my school.</p>
<p>Wow lots of smart people at our school are decently popular.</p>
<p>^I guess I have it lucky. My school’s pretty much like the majority of you guys’. Smart people are praised. But to be honest most people are smart so yeah. I think like 35% of kids take AP’s and this is a public school. Everyone nice</p>
<p>at my school most everyone is “nerdy” and it’s kind of an insult if you’re called normal. Those who are mean are “so middle school” so it’s pretty nice :D</p>
<p>Smart people are a minority in our school, but that’s why they’re so treasured I guess.</p>
<p>We’re deemed to lowly for most to interact with, but people generally aren’t mean to us, and I only know of a couple of people in our large group who’ve been bullied, but that’s mainly for very poor social skills and general weirdness, rather than nerdiness. I have two groups of friends; one the nerdy group and the other pretty average really. The less nerdy group do make fun of my nerdy friends when we’re alone, which is one reason I’m not better friends with them, but generally people just accept and ignore us.</p>
<p>Our smart people, like me, aren’t treated badly, but fairly separated based on level of smartness/nerdiness/Social status. Like if I talk about Vector Calculus to one group of smart/nerdy kids, they will be like “what the F, why do you know this”, they are kind of like the nerds that don’t think they’re nerdy. Whereas if I talk bout Vector Calculus to another group of smart people, they’re like “oh that’s cool, I didn’t know the Line integral had those applications”. Those are the people who are more comfortable with their nerdy side. It’s actually a very interesting dynamic, the nerds who don’t want to be nerdy, separate themselves from those who are comfortable with their nerdiness. Sometimes the nerds who don’t want to be nerdy will refer to the other nerds as thinking that they are smarter than them, and become upset, has anyone else experienced a similar phenomenon?</p>
<p>My school is like most of the others…“nerds” aren’t treated differently because they are athletes, musicians, whatever too. For example, the quarterback of our football team and the star goalie on the field hockey team are both AP students. Most of the people in my AP/Honors classes are what you would consider “popular” I guess. </p>
<p>So I suppose it has less to do with nerds being treated well and more to do with the fact that such a clique doesn’t exist in the typical sense. Instead of the “nerds,” we have the band kids, the athletes, the weirdoes, the ghetto people, and mixtures of all of them that can be considered “nerds.”</p>