School Labels

I don’t know if I saw this done here before… sorry if it has been! *Bows apologetically *
It’s pretty standard in schools for people to gather into ‘groups’. Another way of putting that is to say that each student it ‘labeled’. So what about you?
Which label did you have when at school/while you’re at school now.

For me... I was pretty much a Drifter. If people had a problem they’d come to me… I was generally accepted into all groups but not as a ‘permanent member’, I never believed in being set into one group. However I went through a ‘Loner’ label phase too.. to I progressed to Drifter xD.
I remember in one of my schools the ‘Cool’ groups had tiers of Coolness… now THAT was scary. (Very few fit into Tier one ;))

So where did you fit in? <3 And... what did you think of all the groupage? D;

To tell you the truth I have never noticed groups in my school maybe because there weren't any. In my school there were no cool groups, or bully groups or anything like that, we didn't label any person. You were only known as you nothing more. In teen movies you see how popular and cool kids don't hang out with the geeks but there wasn't anything like that in my school. You stick with those you were good and it's simple as that.

I was good with everyone I known, even with those that I didn't know and there were the same with me. I truly didn't notice that I had enemies or someone that didn't like me. As for labels, well I don't really know. I was known from the beginning as a person who gladly helps and also an artist, so I don't know how or was I at all labeled.

Our schooL aLso don't have LabeLs or Like that.. I have friends that are geek, emo, etc.. we eat at the same tabLe, we Laugh, and everything but we don't treat each other differentLy and we accept each others personaLity.. and often they're the ones I'm with..

In my school, I can remember that people were diveded into groups you had the popular b*tchy girls, the football boys, the guys who hung round the the popular b*itchy girls, the well behaved hard workers and the unluckyies who would bullied for no reason what so ever, you also have your inbetweeners aswell.
I think I fell into the inbetweener catagory, there was no way I was in the hard worker group as I spent much of my lesson time in isolation or referal classes writting lines (ah the good ole days lol) and I was definetly not oneof the popular girls then then I wasnt one of the unfortunate ones wh got bullied all the time. I had a few friends who were in the popular groups but I was never apart of it.

I'm pretty sure that there are groups in my school, but not as noticeable and apparent like the way the media shows it. The majority of the school is full of preps, (wannabe) gangsters, and the norms. The preps and gangsters are pretty self explanatory. The norms is made up of honors students, nerds,and etc.

I've been labeled as a 'cool geek' and an 'old man in a younger body.' I'm quiet most of the time in school. I'm a lot different outside of school, haha.

I didn't really pay attention when I was in highschool, because all I really cared about were my friends. I was aware of the jocks and preppy girls and such, but I just thought they were lame. I think I was probably a freak, though, because I was weird, and frequently loud. I'd make a spectacle of myself a lot of the time, and people would be like "what the hell?!" and/or laugh. I might've also been considered a choir/drama geek by the end.

Highschool politics are lame. Particularly when they are carried on beyond highschool. Anyhoo...

Wuv, Yer Mom

Ugh, my old school was severely separated. I was the emo/loner/dude in the background for three f*ckin years and I was glad when I left. They had the usual groupings, like the preps, populars, nerds, jock, "gangstas", although my school did have a relatively large anime/game lovers. My new school is nothing like the old one, everyone gets along really well, except for a minor popular "girlz" and "gangsta" group. We all have our specific friends, but we are relatively respectful and friendly to each other. My friends have now officially labeled me as "the friendly, lazy emo".

...I was one of the few white boys in school. I dont know why that counts as a group, but apparently its what I was known as. Anyways I was a drifter. Not a loner, but I had a large group of friends. Mainly because I was a big people person.

I've done alot of stuff, and been involved in alot of things... But I've always pulled away, and been able to go to other friends. I also wore a bomber jacket that got me labled "Colinbine" for some reason... People are really stupid. Classification is one thing, but IDENTIFY before you class someone as something...

There are:

The populer girl's
The populer Boy's (Jock's)
The football player's (All the populer boy's)
Then there was me, and my friend's.
Cassandra, Amanda, Megan, talayna, and eleen.
The only popular girl's that liked me were:
Ashley (Smart), Mickala (Smart), Lindsay (Smart) and Megan (Smart) there are other popular girl's that like me but i dont want to say them ^^
Yes Megan that hang's with me, and the popular one are diffrent.
They have diffrent lastname's ^^.
Oh and there's the boy raipest-_-' Im about to sew him for sexual harressment.

I hate the boy's, the raipest (Of course), not to be rasict but i hate the mexican not for being mexican just for being a jerk, and i hated the jock's. The popular girl's are alright. And the girl's I hang with are alright.
But i hate all the gangstar's in the whole world -_-' There are a few...Oh and the kid C.J. he's just a big fat jerk -_-' And he's friend's with the raipest so... Yea...

That's my labels ^^

When i went to school i hung out with my friends from primary school so there weren't any groups established yet but of course as the years went on the groups started to form as well as the members. I never actually was fully part of a group but like you Kilala i drifted from one group to another. I think i started out with the cool blokes who thought they could get every girl they wanted yuo know the pretty boys who acted rebelious as nice as they were i didn't fit ther so i moved on to the cool people and the skegs and skaters,bikers etc and spent a bit of time there but all they ever did was sit and talk quite boring if you ask me so by the 9th grade i had realised how dull they were and then i went to the smart group, now i wouldn't call them nerds because they weren't they were the sort of people who were very bright and excelled in their subjects but also enjoyed playing sports and occosianlly playing cricket in between the buildings, this gruop was my favorite not only because i fitted here the most but because a lot of them i went to primary school with as well. By 11th grade i slipped into the nerd and geek group which branched of from the previous group i mentioned we all hung out but our small group would frequent the computer labs a lot but that eventually got boring trying to outsmart the teachers while playing games and stuff on the computers yes many a detention and punishment resulted from that gruop, at one stage one of my mates wrote a program that would randomly restart computers around the school i never saw him implement it though and of course he went on to become a com programmer. By grade 12 i had migrated through all the groups either by friends,girlfriends or through friends that i was well known around the school not popular just well known everyone in my grade knew me and a lot from other grades as well.

I think they were times i also hung out with the girls a lot and the sporty people as well but in the end i had formed a lot of connections that still hold true to this day, but i wouldn't go so far to say that i keep in touch with all of them but i am still known if i bump into them etc. My older brother was two years ahead of me in school to so i meet and became acquainted with a lot of older students as well, i was very easy to get along with i think that is why i was excepted into a lot of the groups.

I'm not sure about my whole school. My grade which was only about 100 people was fairly divided. There were the gashes (Probably not a technical term), jocks, gangstas, potheads, metal heads, retards (Not literal), Smart kids, and jokesters.

I was good friends with a few of the potheads, metal heads, and jokesters. Though I didn't fit into any 3 of the category. Not many emo's though.

We had a brother and sister who the girl was real short and fat and wore goth makeup. The boy was tall and rugged looking with blond hair, and dressed like a cowboy, from boots, hat and belt buckle. Kinda funny.

My sister goes to the same school that I use too and from what she tells me the school is divided into deffiernt groups from when I was there.
As i previously posted my school was seperated in popular people, hard workers and the bullied, but according to my sis the school is now diveded up into - Chavs and their girlfrinds, emos, punks and the normal hard workers and bullied people, it's strange how these things change over the years, I NEVER saw a chave or emo at school when I was there.
Oh and also the school is full of sl*ts aswell. According to my sis right now there about 8 girls aged between 13-15 are preganant, no one ever got pregnant at that age when I was there, now all I hear about is how many girls are getting pregnant over there. To me a 13-15 year old sleeping around is a sl*t, thats mu opinon and I'm sorry if I have offended any one on here by saying it, just getting my point out x

When I first started at my secondry school, you had pretty much everyone: the "normal" people, chavs, goths, punks, rock-chicks, loners, drifters, nerds, snobs/preps, and divas. By the time it came for my year to leave, all there were was chavs/divas (they both evolved and became one, o.o), rock/punk-chicks, snobs and loners/drifters. Yes, a lot of evolving going on.

I was always classed as a rock-chick/punk from when I started, but I was also quite the loner. After my primary school experience, I just prefered to be left alone by other people, and I often sat in the library and read or did my homework on my own. A few weeks in, my friend came back from holiday and started, and I spent a lot of time hanging with her and her sister, whose friends didn't approve of me one single bit. Which was pretty weird considering the group was a small mix of every group at the school. I thought me and the goth girl would get along, but... hey, it didn't work out.

Eventually, I made a few friends in my own class, the main ones being Nikki and Chikara, who didn't get on. I really don't understand what brought me and Nikki together - we had almost nothing in common. She was a chav, and I don't think we understood eachother very well.

It got to Year 9, and I was put in a different Maths class (I got moved up to a higher class for some screwed up reason - I'm shite at maths, >>), and... well, I didn't know anyone in there. But not all was bad. The girl who sat in front of me was a rock-chick/punk, and she made a comment about my Emily The Strange bag, which sparked off a conversation and next thing I know we're lending eachother CDs, and just talking loads when we saw eachother. Nikki got jealous, and sorta... cast me from the group we'd made, and I hung out with Ella who pretty quickly became my best friend.

During GCSEs, I drifted loads and became a loner again, although still hanging around with Ella and the small group around us. I think everyone pretty much drifted then, but we all got labled in the same ways.

At college, its a little different. Yeah, you can sit in the canteen and place a class on everyone, but the groups are very mixed up. In my group for instance, there is me the rock-chick, Ali the prep/indie dude, Grant the nice-chav (yeah, he doesn't piss me off like other ones - he is very intelligent), Ben the nerd (in the best way possible =3), Andre the jock (only way I can describe him lmao), and Priya who is a tad like me, but more of a pop/rock-chick. I don't think it really matters at college who you hang around with - we all get along fine, and even though me and Ali have had our differences, we're still good friends.

Oh yeah! We had the religious freaks too. There was this one girl who tried to convert me. That was pretty funny - I think I half got her to believe God doesn't exist by the time I was done with her. XD

I was the outcast. I was fairly neutral with most groups, but our different backgrounds clashed (less wealthy kid in a private school). I just couldn't get on with people whose problems and aspirations were so different from my own.

By the time I left school my group of outcasts was fairly big and included a few younger kids who wanted the protection my intense dislike of bullies entailed. I don't regret my group at all and one or two I still keep in regular touch with even though my school friends were generally hardly my best friends. I was many things to different people, a loner (didn't hang out with many in my own grade), an outcast, a freak, an individual, a kid from the wrong side of the tracks (basically meaning I worked for my mobile phone and other money costing items rather than actually doing anything too bad, though I was known for that too [mostly rumours heard elsewhere as I didn't ever go into great detail about my life at school]) and several other often negative things.

To me, school didn't matter too much. It was a stepping stone I was forced to jump onto to get to the next one and when it was finished I became a lot happier, though admittedly still somewhat sad about the possibility of not seeing some people (including a few staff members) I'd grown kind of fond of.

As for how most of the kids seemed to fit into the scheme of things, generally most groups were kids of a single grade, and there was often a larger group of them with smaller groups of closer friends here and there. Wasn't how I did things though...

I was always, "That Dumbass".As i would find out down the road.)
I was friendly to everybody, yet everyone still hated me.
It's much the same now.

I was a Ghost. I spoke to no one and no one spoke to me. The dangerous kind, you know? The one who one day writes a story about zombies for a writing project and is then arrested for being a suspected terrorist by some outback, one-horse, right-wing Nazi police officer.

But I don't talk. I never talk. I went a couple years without saying anything in particular. Then I became home-schooled just so I could talk even less.

-Sin

At the start of my time at the Academy, I was the same as everyone else - floundering. Nobody really makes any lasting friendships at that time, or at least they didn't in my school. For the bit in the middle I was one of the 'in with the out crowd' people. I got called a mosher a lot. I frightened the rich boys. Much fun was had. In my last year I more or less lost the place and stopped talking to everyone except my beau and a few girls I'd known for years.

I left to go to community college for a year before university, and all of the kids I used to hang out with called me a dropout. The teachers called me a dropout. I had to keep reminding them that we don't 'graduate', our system is fluid and better, and that what I was doing would result in more qualifications than if I stayed at their Advanced Higher free Academy. And then we all got to university and I'd had a year of practice writing academic essays, creating arguments, honing critical thinking. They were utterly unprepared. And they still call me a dropout.

During my first year of high school, I was pretty much a loner/reject kid. I hung out with maybe two or three people during lunch, and one or two during classes, but that was pretty much it. Total nerds/geeks get very little respect in the traditional school system, which focuses far too much on things that don't matter, like looks, money, or athletic ability.

From my second year of high school til I graduated with my Associate's in Arts degree, I was on the same campus, the local Community College, haha. Things were Totally different there. for all intents and purposes, I was popular, or at least respected. I fit in mostly with the weird kids, the gamer kids, and the geeks. We all gathered in the far corner of the campus grill during free periods and hung out, played games on our laptops or played cards and shit. I hung out with a couple of the kids who would be considered really popular in regular high schools, but they were alright. Pretty much everyone at my school came to get away from regular schools for some reason or another, so pretty much everyone was nice and cool. The older kids also hung out with the kids in lower grades too, though usually not freshman, since they were kept in an area of campus that we didn't typically go to, so there wasn't any of that class of 07, 08, etc competition.

But yeah. Pretty much I fit with the gamer/geek/weird people, haha.

in Highschool I was a loner.

I hung out with the Magic: The Gathering dorks (and was one off and on, just not hardcore like them) and hung out with a lot of the other guys in the programming courses, but I had my small group of 4-5 actual friends and a girlfriend in my senior year that I spent most of my time with. 3 of said people are still my friends to this day.

In college.... I have like 3-4 people I talk to on occasion that I had classes with in the past, but only at school. I don't have any real friends that I've made through college. I'm a loner, but I enjoy it that way.

I think I'm seeing a pattern here on how people went through the few years.

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Originally Posted by Maridia

I think I'm seeing a pattern here on how people went through the few years.

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Bahaha I thought the same thing.


I started high school kind of quiet and slowly grew into whatever popularity I had by the end of senior year. I was known to be intelligent, and people gave me rough drafts to look over, but I wasn't geek-smart or anything. From what I could tell, everyone thought I was sassy in an adorable/sweet kind of way, and because of that, no one was ever intentionally mean. I was too nice to deserve it, and I was tough.

I didn't date anyone in my class because I don't think anyone saw me in that way. As far as I know, I didn't have any secret admirers. But most of the time, I was okay with that.

I got along with pretty much everyone. I could make most people laugh. And I got the "Most Dramatic Female" superlative for our 400 person senior class, so I guess you could say I was "Theatre Girl." Only I needed (and need) far less attention than the average theatre major.

Word's still out on how I've done during my college career.

Hah! I was always kind of the enigma in high school. I was (and still am, of course :)) the nerdy type. But in high school, I did all of the following things: I sang in the choir, participated in science bowl, wrote for our school newspaper, participated in our plays and musicals, played basketball for three years, including my junior year on the varsity team, and was a four year member of the varsity baseball team. Oh, and I posted on TFF a lot ;). This would very squarely put me in..well, not a clique. The one I hung out with the most was the choir kid clique. My first couple of years, I didn't really have a clique. I was smart, which meant that a lot of time was spent being complete jackasses to me. It'd be all well and good if I could have ignored them, but since I played basketball and baseball with most of the guys who were the biggest aholes, it was pretty rough.

But eventually, people matured. The "leader" of the choir clique and I never really got along, but a bunch of other people from that group got really fed up with him and split off, so I finally found a group I could hang out with early junior year. The athletes also kind of matured around then and started being much nicer to me, and most of us are really cool now. At our senior year class trip, we had a bonfire where we had a "say anything" thing, and a bunch of them apologized to me. I mostly hung out with people from my clique, but I was fine working and hanging out with people from other cliques. I just didn't really. I'm also pretty sure that (in retrospect), one of the kind of popular girls had a crush on me, but I 100% missed it, because I wasn't quite as informed in those sorts of mattesr as I am now.


In college, my college was a much nerdier place than my high school. I hung out with some pretty nerdy people, but it was mostly kind of the "gamer" stereotype. Though really, I kind of just hung out with my friends. It was a small enough school that I knew almost everyone. Cliques matter a LOT less in college, I think. Although we certainly had our high school drama moments. *mumbles something about evil girlfriends of friends*


Cliques are really stupid, by the way. Chances are, most of the people you don't talk to are really cool too :). It's unfortunate that there's such natural tendencies towards division.

I was the only former American President in my high school.

I was so popular!

Our school has groups, ever since we were all ten I think.. I'm a drifter at school XD... I've got a best friend who drifts two so I've got a buddy x3... Everyone does talk to me in and out of school, so I've always have someone to chat to, but I don't fit in any particular group... I used to only be with the popular crowd and they were awesome had a lot of sleepovers and had to do something every week, but then it became tiresome so I went searching around the school for something different... Sure enough I found my best friend, and I have a lot more fun drifting then being popular... It used to cut in on my video game time >.<

Throughout the good years of high school, I pretty much took the form of every single group and clique that there was. I went through all of them and by the end of my senior year, I found the best group that I stuck with to this day: myself.

As an incoming freshman, a lot of people knew me through my musical talent. I made it to multiple invite-only tryout state and national choirs throughout my younger years, so I got to know all of those people that were involved in the music part of our school. Unfortunately for me, it turned out that our choral program was a complete flop at my high school, so even though I excelled at it greatly, I wasn't being challenged at all and got bored, started ****ing around during practice, etc. I still stuck with it all four years but because of the circumstances I will never be able to reach and peak where my talent could have been, which is kind of a sad deal looking back at it.

Anyways, during my third trimester of my freshman year is when soccer season started, so I got involved with that. I met a lot of cool jock upperclassmen and became good friends with that. I was the only freshman on varsity so I got picked on a lot but it was all in good fun lol. Sophomore year was more of the same, but I had a lot of friends in the junior class and I started to gain more friends in the freshman class as well. Near the end of my sophomore year I ended up going out with this insanely good-looking girl that attended one of our rival schools, and when this found out a lot of people gave me a "wtf?" kind of look but that is when I got a lot of respect for everyone, because she definitely was a girl that everyone wanted to be around. This boosted up my confidence a lot when I became a junior, and I became more of a witty class clown-esque individual in class. Nonetheless though, even though I would crack jokes in class and all, I still had respect for all of my teachers so even they really didn't do a whole lot to stop me. That and I carried like a 3.78 GPA all through high school so all of the teachers knew that I wasn't a slacker or a disrupter by any means.

My senior year was just kind of the year that I became myself, I consider it my breakout year of sorts. I became really close with a bunch of other senior guys, and people had a lot of respect for our group. We were a bunch of kids that came from different cliques in the past and throughout our final year we would do shit like fishing, playing poker, pick up games of football and soccer, go drinking at college parties (we thought we were so badass back then for that ahaha), and other stuff. We kept close with each other and even to this day we still talk on a regular basis. We also were close with the other group of senior girls, but they kind of turned out to be bitchy once high school was over and stopped talking to us, but I didn't lose any sleep over it haha. So yeah I'd say after my freshman year you could say I was definitely in one or more of the "popular" crowds, but it wasn't like that to me at all. I didn't let it get to my head and I still had respect for everyone at my school, no matter who they were. I guess you could call that true popularity.