<p>^thats our school you just described</p>
<p>At my school we have “nerd day” during spirit week where everyone dresses like a stereotypical nerd, but in reality people actually all want to be smart, so being “nerdy” is no problem. Everyone freaks out about grades and everyone posts college acceptances to facebook (even people who aren’t considered super smart) because they’re proud of their academic accomplishments. Like others have said, it’s only a problem when you lack social skills.</p>
<p>Normal. No big deal.</p>
<p>My school is so massive that people rarely interact or come into contact with people they don’t like or aren’t familiar with - if someone is a “nerd” (and that term isn’t exactly thrown about a lot here), chances are, they’ll just hang around with 20 of their “nerd” friends. </p>
<p>I’ve been called a nerd, maybe once, in my entire high school career - and it was said to me in an almost endearing way by I guess, a “popular” girl, who thought it was “cute” that I was arguing with my friend about literary devices in an AP English prompt… She literally said “Awe, you guys are such nerds, it’s so adorable!” </p>
<p>Hm.</p>
<p>My school consists only of nerds - I mean, there are lots of horrendously smart and motivated people, but just a few “classic” nerds…We are all nerds:D</p>
<p>Nerds are esteemed here.</p>
<p>In my school everyone has a nerdy side. Some people expose it more than others. No one is bullied for nerdiness, though…we generally have respect for each other. Some people are mean to others, but not the majority.</p>
<p>llolololll my apush teacher makes fun of nerds…funniest thing ever…</p>
<p>One time he was like “I know you have an expensive phone, but you probably dont know your own ringtone”</p>
<p>The nerds are kind of separated from the rest of the school. None of the “normal” kids take honors or APs. When us nerds take regular classes we tend to get cheated off of. I’ve been asked by someone if they could see my test after I finished. </p>
<p>There’s not really a whole lot of bullying. I feel like the school is separated into smart kids or nerds who take honors and/or APs and dumb kids who like to smoke pot in the bathroom and have babies in middle school. There’s not much in between. The 2 groups don’t really interact. When there are normal kids (who don’t participate in illegal activities) who take regular classes, they fit in with the nerds.</p>
<p>The smart kids in our school are well loved, like our athletes and artists and anyone with talent. The only time anyone gets ostracized is if he/she causes it. That is, people only turn against you at my school if you really are arrogant/act like you deserve better than the “crap” around you. There is one relatively smart kid in the grade below me who treats everyone else like they are dumbasses, which is why noone likes him.</p>
<p>^Hah. I wish which people were liked and disliked at my school actually made sense. It’s such a popularity contest here. Some of the most popular people are total jerks.</p>
<p>My school was supposed to be one for smart kids, but the admin let a lot of idiots in when I was there (still do). Like, just because you went to the school you were deemed nerdy by the community. Taking three APs in a year? “Ermagerd I’m so nerday.” The actual nerds at the top of the class referred to these psudeo nerds as noobs. You needed at least five APs in a year to be on our level (not counting freshie and sophomore year because junior year was the time one really piles on the classes). Also, they needed to be rigorous. It didn’t count if two of the five APs were jokes like psych or art history.</p>
<p>^Your school sounds like what CC would be if it were a high school.</p>
<p>If by nerd you mean the people with good grades. Then the nerds at my school are the super alpha populars. The captains of the sports teams and what not. They pull tricks to cheat on tests and get homework from people. My AP Micro/Macro is 60% jocks. And they just get the homework and tests from people who already took the class. The top 100 people of my class is made of about 50% popular kids who cheat to get their grades. ):</p>
<p>The real nerds are usually cool because the popular people friend them to get answers from them.</p>
<p>Didn’t mean to post the same thing twice, sorry. I thought it didn’t post the first time.</p>
<p>Weird dynamics at your schools, I think it can also vary grade to grade. To judge how nerds are treated you have to define a nerd, if it’s just a smart person, then they can be from any social order. There are plenty of smart kids, and AP kids in our school some 35% are in at least 1 AP class. We only have 10 AP(minus art) classes and the easiest is Statistics, we also have IB. Most hardcore kids will take 1 AP (world) fresh-soph years, 4 or five junior year, then four or five senior year. We really only have about 10 kids who complete all minus art, by the end of senior year, last year our valedictorian had 6, our salutatorian had 8. Our first class of IB kids has skimmed off a few really smart kids, but mostly mediocre-smart kids.</p>
<p>@Rachel
Lol Only amongst the peeps at the top, though.</p>
<p>I live in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood and I don’t wanna be racist but usually in my AP classes 90% are Asian and I don’t feel awkward being there. However I have some regular classes where most are Mexicans and me and my friend are the only Asian. Feels kinda awkward to be the kid with the highest grade in the class but they never said anything about it or insult me. </p>
<p>Have a nice day</p>
<p>At my school we have the IB program and the AP so the nerds are separated from the other kids pretty much completely since we don’t have any classes together. Among the IB kids everyone is impressed with intelligence and people like sharing thoughts/ideas about school even during their free time.
There is some tension between IB and AP kids in terms of who has it harder (personally I take a mix of the two and would say that IB is a lot, lot harder not in terms of material but in terms of work expected) but intelligence is respected and admired in both groups.
The non AP or IB kids are few and don’t really interact with the others because we have no classes together, so they sort of form a group of ~20 kids who hang out and have all their classes together.
Actually, now that I think of it, I’d say that at my school it’s sort of the opposite of what you’d expect, as kids with tougher schedules/better grades tend to get more respect and admiration from their peers. Overall everyone’s nice to each other though.</p>