Question:
I am a popular person at my school, but I am nice and kind to everyone, except the ones who don't like me. Yet, there was a time in my life when I was picked on and made fun of. The "IN" crowd has gotten outta control. Some kids are terrified to go to school, and no one helps them. Some kids go through hell everyday! I know how it feels to cry myself to sleep because of my peers, but I never did cry in front of them. Now, is that fair to make fun of someone for something out of their control, like money, house, parents, glasses, braces? No it's not fair, and I wanna here what you people think about it and what we should do to end it. Because it's not fun, and it can tramatize some kids for life!

Choices:
"in" crowds r outta control
some r, some aren't
they aren't

 

i think they are out of control, i mean my little cousin gets picked on all the time, i mean shes in third grade and the kids picking on her are in the sixth so if they could just learn to pick on someone their own size it might just save them a major as* beating

lol, phaeton. I agree

No. Popular people don't suck, popular people suck *****!!!!

popular people suck!!! A ******** bomb should just drop on all of them and blow their fat ****ss out of the water. They need a life!!! Screw them and the pope!!!!

[This message was edited by YNLissa on December 17, 2003 at 10:01 AM.]

The thing is i have been scarred by these *******s and the ball is all in my court now! I'm coming FOR U!!!!!

I wish I went to your school.
Hehe I'm starting to draw memories back to when I was in the 3rd grade. I had just moved. I remember being popular for about a week. It was really gay. I met this girl and all she wanted to ever do was try to find her brothers porn magazines, and look for condoms in her sisters room... I remember asking her, "whats a condom?" After that I was dumped. lol

-Nicole

Same with my school, thank bob. Everyone just leaves each other alone, most of the time.

At my school, we don't have an "in-crowd". People hang out in their own cliques, and no one really bothers each other.

lol! Wow letter, you know what I'm talking about? I thought everyone was going to look at that post and be like wtf!?

Anyways, I think it's absolutly gross. They all started wearing thongs in the 6th grade, and my presicious eyes have been tormented with their ugly butts. I meen really, come on! It's ok if you wear thongs but please, change in the bathroom stall or something.

-Nicole

First off, Nicoley...oh my gosh, I understand exactly what you are talking about. When girls are changing in locker rooms, why can't they just stand in one spot with their backs to the wall until they get their pants on? Really though. They need to realize that some people would rather not see their bare as*.

It's not even the 'In Crowd' who torment kids sometimes. The skanky/druggy crowd can be absolutely vicious to people dubbed losers, or smart, or both. I think that the 'In Crowd' are stupid people who spend their entire high school existence picking on people, getting drunk, acting arrogant, and focusing their entire lives on silly, trivial things that won't even matter five years later. Notice how few people actually like the In Crowd? Nice people go a lot farther.

Popular people are *****.
No one wants to see their flat ***** in thongs in the gym locker room. ew.

Popular people suck!!!!! At my school what the popular people do is have a orgy with each other. Example. Jasmine sleeps with derek and then jasmine sleeps with justin and britany sleeped with justin two weeks ago sleeps with derek last night. That's how you become popular at my school. Or the famous picking on people. I know this happends everywhere. That's also a way you become popular. You are either a **** or a bully to be in the "in" crowd at my school. Maybe it's different at other people's schools but this is going on in my school.

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you are popular by how many people you know, and being nice to people is the only way to know more people.

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That's mostly the case, but it depends… when it comes to the 'in' crowd often there's an image thing that goes with it. And (until people get more mature) being mean to some people who don't have that image can get you popular with the people who do. But there's a difference between the in crowd and being popular. I've never been an 'in' type but I've got a lot of friends. And the people who are most popular of the in types are the ones who are actually nice.

Just lately at my school the in crowd seems to have dissolved a little, I mean, lost their aloofness from other people. Some are still a bit snobby but it's changed as people have got older, also I think it's something to do with being in the 6th form (I'm English) so it's smaller and also we wear our own clothes now instead of uniform which helps people be more individually confident, I think.

My school's fairly relaxed too, it's in a country area and most people are pretty nice.

Inky

What kids in school don't understand is that socializing with schoolmates is not an end in itself. It is not the important thing. Kids kill themselves because they aren't accepted in school, but they don't see that school will end and these people that torture them will be replaced by the real world. There are nicer people out there. I'm not saying that it doesn't hurt when they aren't your friend or shun you, but you must realize that they are not the government. They don't and shouldn't rule your life. You shouldn't go along to the "popular" ideals because you lose yourself and become, not one of them, but a Barbie doll to be dressed and controlled at their every whim. You become shallow, something that they want you to be because they are shallow.

i dont care.....popular ppl are true, genuine, a$sholes. wats really fun is to **** them off.

Everyone is talking about "popular people" like they are one stereo-group. You can't really categorize them as one. It's like saying all girls are the same! It's not really fair. At my school, being a cheerleader or football player doesn't make you popular, you are popular by how many people you know, and being nice to people is the only way to know more people. Snobby people aren't popular at mine because . . . no one likes you!

what exactly is being popular to you?

The best solution for dealing with popular people (of the neo-facist variety): confuse them. Make obscure references, insult them in foreign languages, begin to rant about the advantages of an atro-monkey theocracy... anything it takes to make their air-filled little heads spin. In the end they might just leave you alone to avoid headaches.

well there is nothing we can do to stop it really.. but at my school. i am not popular.. because i choose not to do drugs. basically everyone who is anyone in my school does drugs.. and the "popular" kids dont like me cuz well im different.. i hang with kids that are like me.. carefree and like to play jokes and stuff.. and just have fun... and the "popular" kids dont like that so they make fun of my friends.. but not me cuz i am on the basketball team.. err. well i was b4 the state said i couldnt play anymore.. but they know not to mess with me.. and i stick up for my friends.. and yet they still make fun of them.. and it just makes me so mad... cuz no matter what i tell my friends tey dont stick up for themselves.. there is nothing we can do to stop the "popular" kids... they will do what they want when they want.. just like other kids... which really sucks.