I have always been privliged as rich ppl call it. Still, I never got along with the stuck up rich kids, instead i was friends with the working class kids. I just recently became friends with the popular crowd, and i realized they were not that different. I was always quiet, but now im loud and friendly w/ ppl. What i have learned as that there as sholes in every group just like there are nice ppl. Im still friends with both groups the only difference is that my less popular friends back up their shi t. The rich ppl all talk so if ur a guy( girls its diff) get in somebodys face say u will *** them up if they dont shut up. Most will back down.

At my school popularity is not based on money, clothes, or sports, etc. It is based on self confindence and actions. There are a lot of peole at my school who are crack heads that think everyone else is trying to make their lives miserable. I am friends with almost everybody. We do have a group that calls themselves the "high pops". They are stuck up and rude! That is about 5 % of the student body. Most of the so called "popualr" people at my school are very confindent and goof off, and the ones that are shy dont like to hang around us. At one point though I went to a school where money mattered, and I am not broke but I am not rich. So I see where some of you are coming from. My family used to live in the "ghetto" of this small town, and I was ridiculed for that. Now, I hang with people who are kind, but also outgoing.
Peace out,
Nsyncgirl

I hate people who think their the best at everything and think themselves in the "in" crowd. They think everyone likes them but people dont. I am a normal person i dont like to consider my self higher then anyone else.

The unfortunate thing about kids getting picked on is that it always happens, and it's been happening forever. Of course it is unfair, and the world would be a lot better if everyone respected everyone else. I don't think it's fair to say the "IN" crowd has gotten outta control, because that makes it seem like this kinda stuff just started happening, which it hasn't, or that it's just the "popular" people who are doing the picking on, which isn't always the case. Maybe the world would be a better place if they just followed a rule my mom has always told me, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all".

First of all, i dont like to call those kind of people popular, because they are just the opposite. Popularity is made up of the most hated, snobby, selfish people. That doesnt make any sense. I dont know how that ever came to be, but i think that should change. I know what those people are like, they backstab eachother, hurt others, whine about everything~ basically to sum it up, they are a bunch of spoiled up to their a$$ in money brats. No one has to take any of their $hit. All you need to do is stop caring. There will always be people who think they are high society and think that they can do and say as they please, of course in school we are stuck with them everyday for quite some years. But you still have to know how to deal with those kind of people. Blow them off. Thats basically it. Have you ever been harassed by one of those people where they are making fun of your clothes or something stupid like that? Then they give you the opportunity to do 2 options. Blow them off and roll your eyes, or return the favor and make fun of them. No matter who it is, dont take any $hit from them.

You guys shouldnt be the ones upset. They are the ones who will never have any true friends, they are the ones who will be pi$$ing people off and getting in trouble with them, they are the ones who are living fake lives, they are the ones who care ONLY about reputation. So, the way i see it, i feel sorry for them. ~ you bring things upon yourself.
Screw them.

Alright, first of all, popularity does have allot to do with peoples’ self esteem. How you
view yourself is how others see you, so if you are sad, then others see you as sad. But
then to say that one person is meek minded due to this isn’t right. The contributers of
teasing are the teaser and the teasee. I have been made made fun of since first grade for
nothing and I have resently learned the new philosiphy : What they say, is what they think
and you can read between the lines. Parents may have raised them to be cruel or they
need something, so ignore them, if you don’t like what they say. You have power too.
There is always going to be some popular person who thinks they are better but you know
that you are all equal, so don’t get angry, but forgive ( Martin Luther King Jr.’s theories)
and forget because they won’t remember who they made fun of in twenty years but you
will know that they helped you strive to be a better person.

Amen freakysum41chick!!! Basically at our school the kids who had money were the so called popular people. I am right in the middle and I have no idea why their money makes them anybody than the rest of us. Somehow, putting a fistful of cash in thier hands makes them automatically superior to the rest of us. i have no problem w/ people w/ money but w/ their condescending and snotty attitudes. Besides, popularity is all in your head. You cant worry about what others think about you; then u'll be living thier version of yout life, not yours. Life is only what u make it. No one likes the popular people anyway. at our school, everyone talks about them and they talk about each other. The popular people (and all people) can be so hurtful and cruel, thats y we gotta have awesome friends and to filter out all the negative things in life. I do agree it is a problem and really needs stopped...
Peace out, sOpHiE

Sticks and stones; if you care about what anyone has to say about you, you are accepting their judgement and your problem lies therein.

at my school all the popular people are rude, inconsiderate, mean preps. their stuck up losers who think their better than everyone. At my school it doesn't matter what u look like or what your personality is, in order to be popular, you have to be rich. like really rich. unforntionalty for me, i grew up in the ghetto. litterally. anywayz, i just think that there should be no in group, no popular group non of that i think there should be one group and thats where evrone is friends with everyone.