Daily Poll - Tuesday

[ct]

Do tell...

[twotrue]

Is there like a "popular kids - sub group" option? I always joked that I could hang out with the A group but most of my close friends were from the B group. I sort of floated between the two.

[tattooedmeegs]

I really went between two main groups, the goths and the drama/choir geeks. But I had friends from all of those groups!

[ct]

I voted 'band kid' but I was never actually in band (my HS didnt have a marching band)...I did colorguard, but it was part of the athletic department. That was my main group of friends. I was also friendly with the smart kids/nerds since i was in classes with them but didnt hang out with them outside of school. And I was also a part-time member of the stoners/delinquents/party kids...unfortunately the out gay kids at my school were mostly part of the rave scene (yikes, dating myself) and though I wasnt out in HS, i was friendly with them and partied with them on occasion.

sidenote: Whitney from The Real L Word was a rave promoter in HS - ultimate party kid. (you all are shocked, i'm sure )

[ct]

What are all the "other" votes? What did i miss? Is that just like the "normal kid" category?

[cymru]

I voted other because I kind of floated between a lot of groups. I had friends in most groups but didn't really identify with any of the groups as an only thing.

To sum me up in HS...

I was an AP student who was in the marching band and orchestra, who sat with the punks ( it was the mid 80's - I'm old) at lunch. I also did theater and was active in my church group, did competitive speech and debate and played softball and tennis.

[kershnic]

I voted drama/art, but I wasn't really in either.... I did a bit of random drama stuff, and used my free period to draw stick figures with my friends in AP art (why the teacher let us get away with this is beyond me.) But my closest friends overlapped between that crowd and the smart kids. And we dabbled a bit in the whole Goth thing but I think I always knew I was a poser... then I went to an uppity college and got a whole lot preppier.

[twotrue]

And why is it that this poll assumes that the smart kids weren't incorporated into some other group? :-p

[ct]

well of course there is overlap as you can see in everyone's descriptions but in my school, the uber smart/dorky kids (those that took AP all classes, competed for highest GPA, ect) were definitely in a clique of their own.

and this kinda agrees with me

uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/High_School_Kids

[joyseattle]

I said smart kids, but I'll elaborate. I moved around a lot my freshman year and then beginning of my sophomore year we moved to the HS I graduated from. I was in mostly honors/AP classes and met a lot of friends from those, but also made friends with the popular subgroup. I also was very active in my Catholic youth group for awhile (my first bf was from there) and was in the literary arts group. I then did college instead of HS classes for my senior year, so that too me out of most of the HS cliques and put me in that group. A few people from the popular subgroup could also be considered to be in the Stoners/Delinquents, including myself for a phase, although I was still making As and had started working by that time so the latter half of that description didn't fit. I'm only friends with a couple of the people I went to HS with and FB friends with a handful of the rest.

[hlke]

Yeah, in our school the smart kids were their own group. My school was uber small (62 of us in my class) so basically we had the nerds (smart kids/band kids/drama kids), the dorks (some band kids/DND players/boy scouts), the jocks/popular crowd, and the stoners/delinquents.

[kershnic]

I guess size of class makes a big difference - I graduated with like 500 kids.

[cymru]

I wonder if class size makes a difference? My high school was three grades and over 3000 students. My graduating class was 987.

I think while there were definate groups, most of us fluxuated between them.

I wonder if the groups are more defined in smaller classes?

[hensmum]

Of course there was floating between groups, but come on guys - it was high school! There were cliques!

I was a drama geek, through and through. I dabbled in the art crowd and the freak/goth crowd (cute, sad and crazy girls ), and even dated a couple football players. But the drama geeks were definitely my people.

[ElsaVonM]

While I was in band, and an AP nerd, I was definitely a drama kid - that's where my time/attention/emotion went. At least for the first three years. Then our drama teacher went to jail at the beginning of my senior year and the whole thing was sad and weird and different and I pretty much just gave up and waited it out until it was time to go to college.

[never2amazing]

Basketball and track (shot put) were my claims to fame in high school.

[seattlekari]

I voted band geek but I was also an athlete and in some AP classes. Though I think I was never seen from those perspectives, just as a band geek.

[lv79]

I was in the Band, play softball, did track and field, was an honor student, and a poor kid. I was all over the place lol!!!

[rikkiandjulie]

I needed a band/art/drama group. I was captain of color guard for three years, and then I was always in clubs and helping out with drama stuff.

[eratmama]

I voted nerds, but definitely drama kids, too! Thankfully, the fun kids overlapped.