Question to anyone that went to school in USA?

[Anonymous]

Is it ture American high school have groups like jockeys, nerds, populars, geeks, loners, emo etc.. and you have to sit with your own crowed when you eat or a fight will break out if a loner sit next to a cheerleader, or is it just so in the movies? I never been to USA so i really want to know if it's just a stereotype in movies or a real thing 🙂

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Thanks for all your answers xD I live in Svalbard (Norway) with polar bears and our schools are nothing like the US so i love to learn because i might move there when i have enough income to do so.

[midnightmoon05]

My daughter is in HS. I too went to HS in the US…no it’s not like that. Movies exaggerate and what you stated is not true.
we spent time with those alike.. fights are usually in bad schools in bad neighborhoods…but not due to the reasons you mentioned.
we just visited Oslo and Lillehammer few weeks ago. We didn’t see any polar bears. See what I mean? Glad you asked these questions.

a lot of Europeans visit the US and travel to other parts of the world. It will be great for you. I wish more young people in the US do the same to open up their mind and soul to understand the world and people.

[Asker]

No Svalbard is not a part of mainland Norway is close to the North Pole search Svalbard on Google maps. How awesome, have you traveled to many countries? I have been to Greece, Turkey, Egypt, China and Spain

[mandyfire98]

There were groups that would stick together but a fight wouldn't break out if one person talked to another really. I was a cheerleader but I hungout with a lot of different people.

[Asker]

I watched a movie about cheerleaders called Hellcats they were all kinda bitchy and mean and American Pie if you seen them, it is mostly a stereotypical American high school experience than? (lowkey i always wanted to date a cheerleader after watching movies haha)

[mandyfire98]

Yeah lol. That's pretty much just in movies. I mean are there some mean cheerleaders? Yeah because there are mean people period. But the majority aren't.

[exitseven]

Yes it was just like that. Except they were called jocks, named after the athletic supporter. A jockey is a person that races a horse/

Jock Strap

[Jersey2]

There are groups based on interests and some people identify with those groups and others don’t. People sat with friends where i went to school, some of those groups were athletes etc but not all.

You did have to be accepted if you went to a table that was a tight group that sat together everyday. At my school I sat at various tables depending on who was there as there were multiple lunch times as not everyone went at the same time since there were 2000 at my school.

[Sonorous]

Yes, many groups like that tend to form. And if a loner sat next to a cheerleader, she would probably just get up & sit somewhere else tbh. No fight would break out unless she had a boyfriend that felt she wasn't safe or something.

[Nick1976G]

There are those groups... jocks, the smart kids, the band "nerds", the loners. But as far as being so insulated to fighting because you sat with a different group, I haven't witnessed that. Most of the fighting I've witnessed in high school was more about relationships that status.

[Massageman]

We USED to when I was in high school about 50 years ago. I was (sort of) a nerd. I was not a greaser or jock.

I don't know if these same groups still exist now in school. Now students just don't want to bother learning- period.

[FunkyMonkee]

No, that's pretty much how it is.
Not "jockeys", jocks. A jockey rides a horse, a jock plays all sorts of sports, mostly football, basketball and wrestling.

[SmokinAces2000]

No, there really aren’t really any cliques in the way they are portrayed in TV

[Taffy1234]

Not many joceys.

[gothbxtch]

sort of

[midnightmoon05]

Where do you go to school? You don’t have to tell us the school name…but seriously? That’s how it is in yiur HS?

[Asker]

@midnightmoon05 Well i finished high school but i went to Longyearbyen School