ENGL 101 Chapter : The Legacy Of High School Cliques
15 Mar 2019
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In high school, we all get a label: sometimes, it"s one we spend decades trying to live up to; sometimes it"s one we desperately want to leave behind. The need to separate people into distinct, easy-to-identify groups and classes is one that"s not necessarily confined to anorak the halls of a high school. Still, high school when kids first try to determine who they"ll be as adults is where the effect of those labels seem to be most acute and long- lasting. And how do those labels shape who we become in an age when, thanks to social networks, we don"t really ever leave our adolescent friends behind. Judging and being judged have always been an unofficial part of the high-school curriculum. Most teens are trying to find out who they are and labels help make distinctions about who they could be, who they"re not, and who they should aspire to be.
