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[One Punch Man]

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[The Middle]

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Your example just reminds me how I don't think highschool is often like in the movies.

I mean the biggest thing that strikes me is how everyone knows everyone (that would only happen in a small school) and the social divides. How there are clear cut geeks and cheerleaders are popular.

Cheerleaders were not popular at my school (I think most of the girls who won homecoming queen in my class were actually jocks?) and nobody cared about dating someone on the football team. In general the school was so big it was hard to care about the social hierarchy outside of the group you were in.

Same to all of the above (although cheerleaders were pretty popular at my school too). I think often the tropes really do apply to smaller schools, where I imagine it would be easier to have one single "cool crowd" and everything. I will say there were a lot of cliques and cliques within cliques, though. But a group of three bitchy girls wouldn't have really made any waves. If you only had two or three other friends, you didn't even have anyone to eat lunch with half the time. ~~I know from experience.~~

AYRT Oh yeah there definitely were cliques, high school is very clique oriented and if you don't have one or were on the outs with one then it was really difficult to always have people to hang out with.

And I think there were kids who were thought of as more cool or less cool, but there wasn't just one singular person everyone knew and it was never a jocks versus nerds situation (especially since there were nerdy jocks.)

At mine who was popular also depended on your crowd. I mean, there was a girl who was definitely the "singular cool girl" people either loved or hated - if you were a theater geek. I wasn't, but that was my general crowd, so I knew who she was. The kids who smoked pot all the time had their own versions of her, as did the kids who were in all the Honor Societies and going to Yale.

I didn't even go to a big school and it still didn't fit those tropes. If someone asked me who the popular kids were when I was in high school, I would have no idea what to tell them. There were just lots of overlapping circles of friends.

AYRT Yeah I could only speak for a larger school but I didn't really think small schools were like the movies either. The only thing you'd have going for you that I didn't is that you probably knew way more of your student population then I did.

I kind of wonder if the highschool movies just started to become based off other movies and aren't even anything the writers dealt with.

I imagine it's something like that. Or West Coast schools are like that exclusively? Are we all East Coasters commenting here? :P

Seriously though, yeah, I imagine it's something like that. It's also an easier formula than the more complicated, realistic version.

I think it's Chicago schools, not either of the coasts.

Actually, it's probably more accurate to say that it's schools in a handful of tony suburbs of, like, Chicago, LA, and Atlanta. Not so much a regional thing, more of a class thing I think. But the only person I've ever known who said that they felt high school movies were even close to accurate went to school in suburban Chicagoland.

The part about how well you know people in a small vs. big school, I experienced, as I moved from a tiny church school into a large state school. I probably knew everyone by name in my small church school, and half I knew their parents too because they went to the same church as me. In the big school, I was lucky to get to a point where I could put a name to everyone in my grade.

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