We all remember the day of the Littleton high school shooting also referred as
the Columbine High School Massacre. When the flashing new lines of (CNN News,
1999) stated that 25 people were killed at the High School by two heavily armed
male students that also took their own lives; it was shocking and very disturbing
news to learn that something so horrible caused this students to kill their own peers.
What was the reason that drove these students to kill? Was the students bullying
these boys, did they belong in the reject circle, the outcast’s of the high school,
were they the weirdo’s because they loved to learn; while everyone else
was focused on their looks and the next football game. Maybe, and this is
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First off, majority of high school students only think about high
school as a social club, as a learning institute. Why? Because all they worry about
are the latest shoes coming out, whether or not if I’m prettier than them, or who’s
the cutest person in school. The high school world is made up of cliques of
individual that are the same age and are somewhat act the same why, It’s all about
who’s cool and who’s a loser.
As Botstein stated in his article, in no workplace not even college is there
such age-segregation environment. When puberty meets education and learning,
things get very dicey. Doing these valuable and crazy times in their young lives,
they are ruled by their emotions and hormones. Their bodies go through changes
that can be nerve-whacking, scary, and just downright embarrassing. From my
personal experience as a teenager going through the American high school system,
I can tell you that I seen many kids be teased, harassed and bullied because they
don’t have the right shoes or other materialistic things. I have personally never been
at the bottom of the social ladder in high school but I’m also not at the top of the
ladder either. I consider myself to be in the middle of the social ladder; I’m not a
loser in any why but I’m not the girl who everyone knows about. But I have been
A clip from Mean Girls that showed each of the social groups, or cliques, in their high school. These groups were described as; “freshmen, ROTC guys, preps, J.V. jocks, Asian nerds, cool Asians, Varsity jocks, unfriendly black hotties, girls who eat their feelings, girls who don 't eat anything, desperate wannabes, burnouts, sexually active band geeks, the greatest people you will ever meet, and the worst... Beware of Plastics.” (filmsite.org) The lack of intersectionality is quite disturbing in this film when the students described as the “desperate wannabes” were shown in the lunchroom. One was a little
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