Going to High school: What You Should Expect
August 19th, 2009It can be extremely nerve racking to enter high school. Incoming freshman face a lot of rumors and fears to overcome. Our society likes to paint false images of high school through the media. Popular television shows the popular girls trekking around with Louis Vuitton Replica Handbags, and Balenciaga Replica Handbags making fun of everyone else. It had everyone separated into groups and cliques that can barely intertwine without something going wrong. People tell freshman scary stories of being beat up on the first day of school or being picked on all the time. High school is a right of passage, not a torture zone.
High school doesn’t have as many social rules as TV pretends it does. Its very rare to attend a high school with such a strict social ladder. Cliques don’t really exist any more. Everyone has the close knit group of friends, but there are no rules that say you can or cannot be friends with other people. All that matters is who likes who. In some high schools everyone is friendly to each other. It is a dime a dozen, but there are high schools where everyone knows everyone.
If you don’t think you can fit into a high school with so many people that you will never know everyone, you can go to a smaller one. If your community is too large, you can enroll in private school to get a smaller community. At a private or small school, you get the opportunity to branch out to everyone and get a hands on experience.
Also, all they hype about freshman getting hazed and ganged up on is a myth. It is against the law to haze people anyway. Second of all, most high schools like to fuel healthy competition between years for fun and sometimes to be productive, but never to cause anyone harm. The battle between upperclassmen and the younger kids should never go beyond healthy bantering. Any extreme bullying or any physical interactions at all are unacceptable. Principals and teachers will put a top to anything that could cause someone harm. No High school wants their hallways to be a war zone.
The hardest part of high school is honestly managing the work load. Most people do extreme overtime in high school. You have to be an athlete, a good students, a friends, and a club member. Never before have kids been pushed to do so many things at once, but it is doable. When getting ready to go to high school, don’t be scared. People just have fun trying to make freshman nervous, that’s all it is. Your clothes or book bag won’t get you beat up. High school is a positive experience.