https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:29:51 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience/page/2#post-1606191 Thu, 01 May 2014 15:29:45 +0000 Lindsay05 1606191@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was cliquey. I was in the crowd that didn't have a name and nobody noticed. I find it hilarious now when the 'mean girls' try and talk to me now like we talked in high school. PFFT. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience/page/2#post-1606181 Thu, 01 May 2014 15:25:50 +0000 Kimberlybee 1606181@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>High school was so much better than middle school. I really enjoyed my high school experience! I hung out with the super smart kids because of the honors classes that I was in but I got along with friends of friends too outside of my circle of friends. I was labeled as a "self made individual" (hahaha). I worked and saved up at 15 and bought my own car a few months after I turned 16. I drove my friends around town all the time "cruising". Since I was very responsible, I really didn't have a curfew. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1606118 Thu, 01 May 2014 15:04:27 +0000 rachiecakes 1606118@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Awful.<br /> I didn't "belong" to any group. I just had one best friend but we only had one class together. People would make up stories about us, egged my house, smashed my dad's car windshield, stole my best friend's expensive guitar. We were targeted because we didn't belong to any group.<br /> My parents took me out of school senior year but the damage was done. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1606111 Thu, 01 May 2014 15:00:11 +0000 MrsKRB 1606111@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was definitely clique-y, but I don't remember there being the stereotypical 'jocks/nerds/popular' group, it was pretty mixed. I also don't remember there being any 'mean girls,' maybe I just didn't care? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1605895 Thu, 01 May 2014 13:40:09 +0000 avivoca 1605895@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>High school was terrible for me. It was definitely your stereotypical high school experience. It didn't help that I moved to that school in tenth grade. Ugh. I hope I don't have to do that to my kids. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1605847 Thu, 01 May 2014 13:30:19 +0000 Anagram 1605847@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@indi: @LuLu Mom: My HS experience was very similar! Except in a teensy, tiny, dusty west Texas town. haha.</p> <p>Overall, HS was good to me, if a little bit boring. Small school, so the friend groups couldn't really be categorized at the "jocks" or "band nerds", because a lot of kids were in ALL the electives.</p> <p>I was in band, and theater, and on the tennis team so I had several friend groups--but my bestiest were the smart kids.</p> <p>I felt like my time there was transitory. Meaning, even then, I knew I wasn't the type to live there forever--and I was right! I moved when I started college and never lived there again. But still, it was nice and safe and uneventful which kind of good for a kid. I was exposed to too much, too soon. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1605819 Thu, 01 May 2014 13:25:35 +0000 Bookish 1605819@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>High school was better than middle school! Like @Mae: my school was weird in that it was the smart + hot people who were popular, not the jocks. My HS was very academic &amp; arts focused, and the band geeks were cooler/more important than the jocks. I never really felt like I fit in, because my Asian friends had their clique, the smart/hotties had theirs, and I was just... awkward. I think a lot of people feel like that though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1605803 Thu, 01 May 2014 13:20:21 +0000 indi 1605803@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LuLu Mom: Haha, that sounds like my little IA experience, too. All sorts of cliques, and school was so small (I graduated in a class of 34) that you were in lots of groups and activities and your clique was really more of who was your friends group. </p> <p>All the cheerleaders didn't hang out and drama kids weren't in their own little gang because it was likely that the cheerleader was in drama, speech, played the drums in the pep band, and was on homecoming court. There was still slight bullying, but in a school so small, it rarely escalated. It was awesome for some, meh for others, and I'm sure it was hell for a few folks, but I don't think it was TV-style typical HS. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602482 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:18:37 +0000 LuLu Mom 1602482@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My high school experience was fine once I grew into myself. I went to a small school (graduated with 50 people) most of which we had known since kindergarten. I was picked on quite a bit but was part of the "cool" crowd. I was involved in a lot of extracurricular so I had a lot of friends from all different groups. My closest group of friends were the popular athletes who drank/partied on weekends (different from the popular athletes who were super religious &amp; looked down on us.) Otherwise there were the band/choir/drama kids, the "druggies/slackers", the outsiders who all hung out together, the religious group, &amp; the hicks/farmers. (haha this is NE we had a farmer/cowboy clique who chewed tobacco in class and took a lot of woodshop.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602458 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:13:35 +0000 Chillybear 1602458@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was typical but atypical at the same time. I lived in a pretty wealthy town but we were solidly middle class. There were 4 elementary schools that fed into a middle school and 2 other towns middle schools that fed into our HS. Cliques were more based on the school you came from (and how wealthy your family was) and what sports you played. I had a great core of friends, lots of kids i was friendly with and I was friends with a lot of guys, but i never dated guys from my HS. </p> <p>I was a freshman when colombine happened and our school was featured on an episode of 20/20 because a kid a few years older then me felt he was being bullied and actually wrote out a "plan". The whole story was edited in such a way that they framed a guy i was friends with as the "bully" when he wasnt at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602433 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:07:58 +0000 Cherrybee 1602433@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>School in the UK isn't really like it is in the US (or at least it wasn't when I went to school). There were no cheerleaders, for one, and no prom so no prom queen situation. In my class, there were the cool kids, the uncool kids ("the squares") and the really uncool kids (fat or really weird, usually). I was "square" because I got good grades and wore appropriate school uniform (eg didnt roll my skirt up or wear make up). I had friends but I was desperately awkward and longed to be accepted by the in-crowd. There were periods of minor bullying but mostly I just hung out with my friends, cringed every time a boy walked past me and hated myself with a passion. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602415 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:04:18 +0000 BKCaribBaby 1602415@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swurlygurl: Yeah..totally over the top, but to some degree some people really did have that kind of life. I think there is always some degree of freedom that city kids have because they are not dependent on parents/older people to get you where you need to go. I was very focused, straight-laced and my mother was not having it, so I was not into running all over the city doing who knows what. I did have my fun though. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602384 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:58:26 +0000 swurlygurl 1602384@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BKCaribBaby: Hah - GG was one of the ridiculous HS shows that popped in my head. That one and The OC. I can't imagine having that much freedom from my parents! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602373 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:56:38 +0000 BKCaribBaby 1602373@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had a very atypical high school experience, at least to me anyway. I went to small (my graduating class was 30 people), private all-girls school that has/had a high population of well off students, including children of celebrities. Actually the show Gossip Girl was based on my school. Gossip Girl is completely over the top, but for some people partially accurate. It wasn't that way for me at all since I was the working class minority kid from the outer boroughs with a strict mother. :) I didn't enjoy my experience socially even though I did well and was heavily involved with extracurricular activities. There were no groups based on what you did or liked, just groups of friends. These groups weren't always nice to each other though. </p> <p>I'm always fascinated by the portrayals of high school on TV, especially with cheerleaders, football players and kids who drove cars to school. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602238 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:30:36 +0000 Greentea 1602238@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: that sounds great! Any place without sports... :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602227 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:29:08 +0000 photojane 1602227@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I graduated from a private Christian high school &amp; my graduated class was like 54 people, so everyone was pretty nice to each other. There were definitely groups of friends, but everyone got along. It was really nice, and the main reason I want Sadie in private school. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602214 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:25:44 +0000 MK0180 1602214@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH and I went to the same HS and graduated in the same class. Our school was an urban inner-city school that bused in kids from wealthier neighborhoods that also had a performing arts magnet program (now their own school). I was a dance major for the first two years. I couldn't relate to the Disney-esque stereotypes that are portrayed on TV and movies. Smart kids were popular, drama kids were, too. We had gangs and we had goth people all mingled together. One night DH would be at house party in the projects and the next night he'd be at one in a multi-million dollar home.<br /> Anyway, I HATED high school - I was so awkward and so shy. I couldn't wait to get the hell out of there. It was my own insecurities. Surprisingly, DH - who was ridiculously popular - also hated it but for other reasons. Pretty sure our classmates have scratched their heads wondering how we got together :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602185 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:16:48 +0000 SugarplumsMom 1602185@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The beginning of HS was definitely a popularity contest. But it wasn't as bad at Jr. High. That was like an after school special filled with all the cliche cliques and stereotypes! My parents moved in the middle of the school year, so I was the "new kid". Somehow I ended up living next to the "cool girls" and looking back, my middle school years was dominated by different hairstyles and pictures where I'm wearing way too much make-up for my age! </p> <p>By the end of high school, I couldn't care less about popularity and just wanted to get it over with. I saw one of my good friends become addicted to drugs (which she only started to keep her already skinny figure)! Yeh, that sucked. But other people around us didn't know what was going on.</p> <p>Jr. High School was fun. High school, I didn't care much about, unfortunately. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602180 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:15:24 +0000 wonderstruck 1602180@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My best friend from high school has said, "If they had made Wonderstruck's high school experience into a movie, you would say that it was way too crazy and far fetched, and that stuff like that doesn't happen in real life." I was in a few different groups, but there was a mean girls clique that zoned in on me for whatever reason and basically set out to make my life a living hell - after lots of sneaky bullying as only girls can do (and those stories are so freaking insane,) along with some physical attacks when teachers weren't looking, it finally ended up being taken to the police after they started stalking me as I walked home and trying to run me over with their car. Seriously.</p> <p>Luckily all those girls had dropped out or been sent to the 'alternative' high school by 11th grade, so the last couple of years were awesome. It also made a big difference that I was super involved in marching band, which was huge at our high school - we were like one big family and there were people in it from all different groups and cliques, so that was bonding. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602166 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:11:23 +0000 Honeydew 1602166@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't enjoy my HS experience. Mostly because I was the new kid, extremely shy, and my awkward phase lasted a lot longer than most. There were cliques and I was an outsider. Looking back and attending the reunions, I'm glad that I wasn't a part of the cool group, because they really did end up "messed up" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602145 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:05:39 +0000 looch 1602145@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If I had to sum it up in one word, I would choose "uninteresting." I had one goal in high school, to go to college in Boston. All my attention was focused on it.</p> <p>I wasn't popular, but I had friends. I am still friends with some of them, 20 years after graduation...yes I am THAT old. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602138 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:05:06 +0000 mrsjazz 1602138@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I loved my high school experience. We didn't have any sports teams (only gym &amp; intramurals) so there were no jocks, no mean girls, no cheer leaders, etc. Of course we had lots of cliques, but there were so many and they overlapped with others. Our HS was like college in that we could pick classes, we had open periods where kids would just be sitting in the halls chillaxing. There was so much diversity (even though it still could be somewhat segregated) but it was pretty cool. I love my high school. And my school was on an episode of Seinfeld :grin: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602129 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:02:01 +0000 Greentea 1602129@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't. I had to go to this really small town like 20 miles away and it was super odd. There weren't really groups, more like 1 big group. We lived a lot of different places and I much preferred a larger school.</p> <p>It was boring, unchallenging, and most people were related and everyone was from there - even the teachers. I got a crap education. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602123 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:00:22 +0000 meredithNYC 1602123@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I went to a pretty friendly, small Catholic high school and I really enjoyed it! There will still cliques, but said cliques tended to be pretty friendly with each other - and I managed to get along with most everyone. I actually miss those days sometimes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602120 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:58:55 +0000 littlebug 1602120@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HLK208: This, too. My high school was the "richest" in the area, and in talking to kids from other schools, it definitely seemed like our cliques and related drama was much more prevalent. Plus, the other schools hated us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602115 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:57:10 +0000 cascademom 1602115@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had a great high school experience. Everyone just knew each other from all grades. I went to an all girls Catholic school. I had a solid group of friends and knew others from other groups of sorts, but we got along, no Mean Girls stuff here. I'll never forget the outpouring of love and support when we lost a classmate to a terminal illness in my class senior year. </p> <p>Last week, a classmate and her husband were killed in a car crash leaving behind two young children. Over the past few days, I've watched my high school and their college alma mater mobilize support in so many ways. Seeing this makes me happy for the wonderful high school I attended and how they support everyone in tangible and intangible ways. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602114 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:56:43 +0000 HLK208 1602114@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes! My high school was very stereotypical. Mostly everyone was very privileged and that just made it so much worse. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602082 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:47:43 +0000 pui 1602082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Eh, maybe somewhat. There were definitely popular kids and unpopular ones. The popular boys tended to be sporty while the popular girls tended to wear expensive clothing.</p> <p>I was somewhere in between. I wasn't popular, but I wasn't bullied or teased much. I was a weird kid and I always dressed strangely, so I got some comments for that. Honestly I never cared what people thought about my clothes. I would have been much more hurt if they insulted my actual appearance or intelligence, but no one ever did really.</p> <p>Overall I don't think people were that nasty. We were a pretty small school, and in general nothing that bad happened. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602073 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:44:53 +0000 Littlebit 1602073@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I loved my high school experience. We definitely had cliques, but for the most part all of the cliques got along with eachother, and I didn't see much meanness or bullying going on. Everyone was pretty friendly! But I also went to a high school in the country. My middle school was in the city and very, very different. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/your-high-school-experience#post-1602048 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:40:24 +0000 BSB 1602048@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was typical to me. Had to deal my own self esteem issues. Bullying was more elementary and middle school. High school, I just got by. I had my friends and falling out of friends, which caused drama, but I think it was normal. </p> <p>My crowd was the nerdy, preppy band geeks. Did I stand out in HS? Nope! I didn't want to stand out either. </p>