Friday, October 2, 2009
Why are there so many different cliques in schools?
Can anyone answer this question? Probably not, because most people come from different cliques. People can maybe say one to four different cliques. In reality there are over 100 different cliques because there are so many different groups of people. There are so many cliques for a lot of reasons. One reason is people have different ideas about things. Like someone might like metal and other person might like rock or something. People might like to go skating and another person might like to swim. Who really knows for sure who likes what. Sometimes having so many cliques can create problems. A rumor might start about one group and it can create fights. There is many people get mad at one another sometimes. One group could be popular. The other group can be unpopular. Sometimes a person might want to join another clique. You leave the other clique and they probably get mad at you and the clique you joined. So you see there are many different cliques and sometimes having to many in one school could lead to some minor or major problems. Thank you for reading my blog. If you have a better answer please tell me.
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Your completly right. Cliques tear people apart and cause WAY too many fights and problems. Great Job explaining how those problems start.
ReplyDeleteWow that was really good. I like the swimming part.
ReplyDelete• Children experience biological, cognitive, and socio-emotional changes.
ReplyDelete• ^^^ these experiences change ones social interactions.
• Toddlers and early elementary students develop their social skills from family and school contacts.
• End of elementary:
o Children develop independent relationships from their families.
• Children’s social network evolves; the parents have less control over their child’s activities, leaving the children to make their own social choices.
• Middle School:
o Develop more advanced interpersonal relationships, peer approval and acceptance becomes more important.
• High School adolescent:
o peers become more critical.
• Try to find out who they are, and what their purpose is to find a clique in which they fit into.
• Social Styles: groups or one/two friends or to be isolated.
• Isolated teens: teens that are different physically, emotionally, or behaviorally.
• Socially rejected: often make repeated attempts to be part of a group of students, but are rejected because they are antagonistic or unable to behave in a socially appropriate manner.
• ^^^ Examples: kids with untreated ADHD or overly aggressive behavior.
• Ages and their effects:
o 9/10: begin to form cliques as soon as differences are recognized.
o 10/12: separation from parents; cliques form and change frequently.
o Middle/High School: Belonging to a clique is critical; cliques and bullies are more prominent.
• Bullying:
o 160,000 children in the U.S. miss school due to bullying, DAILY.
o Peaks in middle school and drops off by grades 11 and 12.
o When teasing becomes taunting, it becomes critical as well.
o Unhealthy situation in which a student or group of students use superior size and/or power to win concessions over a vulnerable student or group of students.
o Victim: exposed repeatedly and over time to negative actions by one or more students.
o How can you bully someone:
Verbally through threats, teasing, and name-calling
Physically through hitting, pushing, kicking, pinching, or restraining
Nonverbally and nonphysical through making faces, obscene gestures, intentionally excluding someone from a group, refusing to comply with someone’s wishes, and spreading rumors.
• Gender Differences:
o Both genders bully but there are differences in how they do it.
o Boys:
More likely to be identified because their acts are more physical.
Tend to bully both girls and boys.
o Girls:
More verbal, subtle, and indirect.
• Example: Ridiculing, and starting rumors.
Tend to bully in a group and victimize girls.
• Effective in all grades.
o Girls are more concerned with who is “in” and who is “out” of the “popular” clique.
• Can be destructive.
• Early Elementary:
o Tend to make friends with others (mainly the same gender) in their immediate environment.
o Cliques at this age reflect adult cliques.
o Enabled by teachers and other adults in an atmosphere of privilege and exclusion based on physical appearance, social class, and other local criteria.
• Usually have a leader who uses emotional manipulation to empower some and exclude others.
• Will experience emotional highs and lows as they strive to become and to remain members of the clique.
• Can be minimized in the school setting, even in a community atmosphere that promotes cliquishness and exclusivity.
• Cliques:
1. Preps
2. Goths
3. Geeks
4. Band Geeks
5. Book Worms
6. Math Geeks
7. Nerds
8. Punks
9. Skaters
10. Drama People
11. Choir People
12. “Special” People
13. Non-Conformists
14. Gangsters
15. Tomboys
16. Jocks
17. Flunkeys
18. Cheerleaders
19. Wannabes
20. “Popular”
21. Sluts
22. Student Council Reps
23. Troublemakers
24. Peacemakers
25. Asians
26. Asian Nerds
27. Popular Asians
28. Science Nerds
29. Snowboarders
30. Ghetto Wannabes
31. Gamblers
32. Outsiders
33. Immigrants
34. Hispanics
35. Alcoholics
36. Druggies
37. Smokers
38. Religious Cliques
• People have different ideas about things.