Do Constitution High School have Cliques???

Cliques

Remember the movie “Mean Girl” when Janis Ian is giving Cady a tour of the school he introduces her to all the cliques.
“Now, where you sit in the cafeteria is crucial
Because you got everybody there.
You got your freshmen,
ROTC guys,
Preps, JV jocks,
Asian nerds,
Cool Asians,
Varsity jocks,
Unfriendly black hotties,
Girls who eat their feelings,
Girls who don't eat anything,
Desperate wannabes,
Burnouts,
Sexually active band geeks,
The greatest people
You will ever meet
And the worst.
Beware of The Plastics.”



Hollywood has produced a long list of movies that deal with cliques…Who remembers mean girls, Buffy the Vampire, Heathers, Saved, Sky High, 10 Things I Hate About You, My Favorite, and etc.


I've talked to many of Constitution High School students, and it turns out that cliques are groups of friends, but not all friends are cliques. The thing that makes a group a clique is that they leave some people out on purpose. Usually one or two popular people control who gets to be in the clique and who gets left out. People may act much differently than they did before they were apart of a clique.



Why Do People Join Cliques?
Graduating class of 2011 Brittany Davis said, “People join cliques sometimes act differently than they would outside the group. They often go along with what others are doing, even though they know it’s not right or if it means loosing a close friend. They might feel bad about it, but they can't figure out how to be cool and still be nice to people whose not in the clique.”


Cliques in Constitution High School
So, do we have cliques at constitution high school? Ninth and tenth grade English teacher Mr. Romero said, “yes, we have cliques in this school, its unavoidable. They are not biracial, grade level, nor ethnicity. Cliques are liked minded people, brought together by fashion, music, and teen interest.”

Some students at Constitution High School said, “People join cliques because one of the hard things about cliques is if a person who was your friend joins a clique and starts treating you differently. Sometimes the problem starts with a argument between the two friends, but other times you can find yourself on the outside of a clique even if nothing happened.”