<p>**how can you hate the sluts???? :P I certainly didn't ;)</p>
<p>Anyways, I hated the sticky reputations. It takes years
to build up a reputation and only a moment to wreck it.</p>
<p>Just my .02**</p>
<p>I didn't see "cliques" in my high school, but I just believe the word "cliques" is overused nowadays anyhow. Maybe I didn't notice them because I happened to be in a lot.</p>
<p>Drama isn't that hard to avoid, really. I don't see what the big deal is with people angsting over "high school drama", a phrase I've taken a very large dislike to.</p>
<p>My school (in the subrubs of Chicago) is very diverse and really has no cliques at all. Extracurriculars really make a difference. I kinda wish we had more sluts, though.</p>
<p>My school is really bad with cliques... about 10% of kids stick to their friends, and the other 90% divide into "goths", "jocks/cheerleader sluts", "gangsters/regular sluts" and "nerds" and label themselves as such. The cafeteria is literally divided into those 4 sections.</p>
<p>I just never understood the point of hanging out with people exactly like yourself and shunning anyone else.</p>
<p>my high school wasn't diverse at all..it was like 80% white, 15% asian, and 5% african-american or hispanic. it was 100% affluent (our parking lot was featured on jay leno for being the 2nd most expensive in the nation--after beverly hills high).
i value diversity, and while i made a lot of really good friends while i was there, i think a lot of people didn't learn anything about tolerance to prepare them for the real world, where daddy doesn't buy you a BMW on your 16th birthday and your mom doesn't drive her golf cart to bunco in the neighborhood every month..</p>
<p>I just never understood the point of hanging out with people exactly like yourself and shunning anyone else.
Its nice being around people that have common interests. It's not like people really shun other groups, it's just hard to hang out with a group that has completely different interests. I wouldn't mind hanging out with a few of them at a time (and I often did), but being surrounded by a different type of group can be awkward since you don't have a whole lot in common.</p>
<p>"Cliques" will exist for the rest of your life (but different types of them), so get over it.</p>
<p>where daddy doesn't buy you a BMW on your 16th birthday and your mom doesn't drive her golf cart to bunco in the neighborhood every month..</p>
<p>WHAT?!?! That doesn't happen in the real world? You must be kidding.</p>
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<p>I was speaking for my school, in which people won't speak to other people because of the way they dress. The entire concept is ridiculous.</p>
<p>Of course cliques will always exist but I disagree that they don't shun others. It isn't awkward because the people are necessarily that different in terms of how they are. Instead it seems most times it's only awkward from the fact that they're different only in the sense that they're new. People just become comfortable hanging out with the same groups of people and new people ruins their sense of familiarity. The problem is when they become exclusive and hostile to seeing new people without giving them a chance. Yes this is a natural tendency of human beings in general but it doesn't make it any better of a quality. If we recognize it doing some bad things and we're conscious of it, then we should work on trying to address it instead of mindlessly following our fearful instincts.</p>
<p>Hah...</p>
<p>I hated high school because it was just so STRESSFUL, and my high school was sooo competitive. I hated how everyone had such time-consuming extracurricular activities, and how a lot of my friends would be up at 1 a.m. just starting homework after getting home from SAT prep, driver's ed, babysitting job, etc and whatnot.</p>
<p>It's like this growing competition to see who can be the busiest person after school.</p>
<p>Oh, the things we do and sacrifice for college...</p>
<p>...and how social life on the weekends kinda centered around drinking games. hah.</p>
<p>Eh, I think I was kinda high-strung during high school. But yeah, cliques and drama... that was really distracting too.</p>
<p>"Well let's see.. high school consists of the following:
1. Waking up at 6 am
2. going out in the cold to catch a smelly bus full of loud annoying kids
3. arriving and taking classes which are usually unrelated to things you are interested in, full of repetitive busy work
4. dealing with ******bags and morons who are generally at the top of the social ladder. With afterschool sports, in particular.
5. Coming home and dealing with nagging parents and bothersome siblings.
6. Doing homework for those same boring classes.
7. Going to bed, dreading the pain of waking up in the morning.</p>
<p>That's why high school sucks. Of course, there are many good parts of high school, (weekend football/basketball games, extracurriculars, hanging out with friends, cool teachers (occasionally)). It's something we all have to do to get on with the rest of our lives."</p>
<p>almost in total agreement with this</p>
<p>I LOVED highschool.
I was really involved in cheerleading, DECA, and so many other things. I'm a really outgoing person who finds in really easy to make friends and I feel comfortable in most sistuations. Like any school there was alot of "losers" but I just learned to deal. Sometimes I felt I was running a mile a minute.
And sure there was some Drama but I learned to avoid that by the end of highschool. </p>
<p>I also love university. There is more freedom to do whatever I want ( within reason). Sure I'm not doing as much outside of class and so much HARDER then I could have imagined but really I think that its about making the best of everything. Life way to short...</p>
<p>In retrospect, high school wasn't really that bad. The parts I really disliked though; waking up early. The people who stuck to their own friends exclusively. The inactivity of the student body (only about 50 people out of 400 in my grade actually participated in activities/sports/clubs). And most of all, the rules. I HATE RULES!!! I tend to follow them, because I would not like to be followed, but I despise rules with a great passion. Just after you get out of it, you realize how much better life is once it is over. Now, the summer after high school's been terrific; I only can imagine how much better college will be.</p>
<p>Because high school is full of a bunch of dumbasses, and you're stuck with them until college, where there are even MORE dumbasses, but they're a different KIND of dumbass, so they're SIGHTLY more tolerable, not to mention that you run into them a whole lot less. :)</p>
<p>I didn't hate high school so much as I thought it got boring because of all the classes I was forced to take by the state, but the teachers and the guys I knew were still pretty chill all the same</p>
<p>personally i love(d) high school -- i went to school with all of my best friends, and got to hang out with them pretty much everyday -- even though the work was hard, the days there were fun and im pretty sure well always remember these</p>
<p>That's another reason I hate high school: I NEVER had any classes with my friends</p>
<p>The classes:
I'm not a science guy, but I took 5 years of science, including two AP courses. Why? Because it was needed to have a shot at top 50 schools. And I certainly didn't care to take art or gym. But I did take two years of both. Why? Because they were graduation requirements. I realize that college has some of those too, but at least at my school, they're pretty reasonable.</p>
<p>The teachers:
While the protection of teacher's unions and the tenure system both shield the teachers from taking responsibility for their actions, and facing just consequences, the situation was much worse in high school. God forbid you question a teacher on anything. For me, that always resulted in trouble, even when they were acting well outside the scope of their authority. In college, the professors tend, at least in my experience, to be less concerned with feeding their own egos through the exercise of ungranted powers. Instead, they typically invite debate where relevant, and limit their involvement in the affairs of students to an appropriate level. And, since their expectations are usually spelled out clearly on the syllibi they furnish students with at the start of the semester, there is less opportunity for them to show petty bias when issuing grades.</p>
<p>The hours:
The days were longer, and they started too damn early. A 15 hour week, where I have more control over the times of my courses is a huge bonus. Now none of my classes start before 10am, and I have only one course on Fridays.</p>
<p>i loved high school. </p>
<p>yeah days were longer and busy work was a pain and the rules were dumb. but so little stress, endless hours of afterschool sports and activites, good food everynight. comfort of people around you that youve known for 10+ years.</p>
<p>it might be mean to actually say it.. but like someone else said it is true that those people who hated HS mostly did so becuase they were "losers" and just didnt find friends tehy could connect with. because i dont tihnk boring classes would cuase someone to HATE high school.</p>
<p>i would go back and do it again if it could. my friendships are going to last a lifetime and ill always have great memories. that all being said, college is awesome too =) and i hope i didnt peak in HS haha</p>
<p>I didn't really hate hs.I had A LOT of friends and had ec's like swimming,sga,sac,nhs and debate. I STRONGLY disliked hs because of the useless classes that the state makes u take to graduate.Most of my classes I would finish my work AND hw and STILL have a good 15/20 minutes to bs.colege is gonna be better because for the most part I can pick my field of study and class hours.</p>
<p>Oh and the hours sucked too.who wants to get up at 5:30am to catch an hour long bus ride with some loud, obnoxious and incrediably stupid kids?? Not me :D</p>