After reading a couple posts about the social dynamic at our school, I decided to add my view to things.
Like others already mentioned, there is definitely a "popular" crowd at our school. They also seem to have taken the responsibility upon themselves of running all the special senior stuff. I think it is interesting that these people (I think we all know who I'm talking about?) are considered popular, because even though they are well known, they are definitely not the most well-liked people in the school. This led me to think about the cliques at school. Though certain groups, let's use the theater kids as an example, might not be the most "popular" kids in school, they definitely have "popular" people within their own little group. I think this holds true to all groups in our school. It's interesting how this social dynamic of "popularity" also is present when you break the school down beyond just that one group of people considered to be the popular crowd. I think the most important thing, rather than popularity, is having friends you love and who love you. Who cares if everyone in school does not know your name? That's the real definition of popularity. I'd rather just know that the people I have decided to spend my time with know me well.
I think since a lot of people have been blogging about this issue, we should see if we can discuss it in class.
-Mackenzie
You have a very good point there Mackenzie. Why the heck are "those people" popular? It really doesn't make sense. I also wonder how on earth they got into that position. Maybe they just wiggled their way into the popular clique and then mirrored the behavior they saw. It seems like a lot of the time people in cliques are almost the same personality multiplied. Other cliques, like theatre, possess a grand variety of personalities. I would think people would choose more diverse cliques than the, in my opinion, boring cliques that are the same old same old.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I don't understand why one group gets to decide on all the senior stuff going on. It doesn't make sense to me why the "popular" group are choosing the football players superfans when each player has their own set of friends or girlfriends who would like to be in that position but because of that group they are not allowed to. I also don't see why we automatically have to buy senior shirts for them. If people want to produce senior shirts I feel like there should be a vote on which we like best. It makes we wonder why we just let them run those decisions.
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