High School Cliques

Should cliques stay the same or should they be more open to allowing other kids in their group?

Cliques.
Cliques have the tendency to define kids in High School. Cliques are small group of people who share similar interests and opinions, who spend time or hang out together, and usually do not allow others to join their group. To me cliques are very interesting.

Cliques in Spring Lake. If you were to compare Spring Lake school district to other school districts it would appear that the kids at Spring Lake are the “rich kids”. However, Spring Lake is no different than any other schools. The school has several different cliques such as, the “band geeks”, “the jocks”, “the brainiacs”, “the partiers”, “the rich kids” and other cliques. When
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However, the movies always have the popular/ rich kids present as mean and rude people that think they are better than anyone and everyone. Which plays into society and children’s mind that if you have a lot of friends and have more money than you are better than people who are the exact opposite. Also, when the characters are portrayed as the popular kid is always picking on the person who is poor and doesn’t have many friends or much money. Take ‘Mean Girls’ for instance, they make the two main character one rich and one ‘poor’. The movie is about a girl, who is new to the school, and she is just trying to get through the year but she gets on the bad side of the most popular girl in the school and the movie portrays her as a person who thinks she is better than everyone. This as I had mentioned earlier plants a seed in children’s brain that that’s how life is going to be. ‘In short, the natural instinct for teenagers to separate themselves into clusters and hierarchies is weakened when schools force kids to partner with peers they wouldn't otherwise want to be around to see first-hand the benefits of unlikely friendships.’ - The