The dynamics and changes of your classroom over the years

[pulse2]

We've all been to school.....well I hope so :/

Anyway, psychological question, other than maturity what changed throughout the years of your classes and what changed in your classmates personalities if anything. Maybe you yourself changed over the years to become more popular at school.

I remember our first years being quite segregated, you had the skaters, rockers, emos etc in one group, the gaming and action figure collecters in another group and the hard boys with no time for anything other then girls in another group, by the end of the years, there were two groups, the hardboys and the skaters, emos etc. The nerdy group seemed to have vanished into thin air, I think there was a desire to conform with one of the other two groups.

It was actually quite amusing, really nerdy boys I new in my first years are now using back street words that even I as a black guy don't understand. They wear thier trousers down thier backsides, smoke, drink, have lots of sex etc. Its kind of hard to ever imagine them collecting warhammer and playing with pokemon cards now, but it's amusing to think that now they think they are badass when back in the first years they were playing the violin and in stage six, now they have thier 'whips', 'wifeys' and 'cribs'.

So yeah, what were your school changes like?

 

[Serving UpSmiles]

First it was the hipsters and the emos, now its Anime lovers + gamers and Music and sports ethusiasts.

 

[Rockchimp69]

We've all been to school.....well I hope so :/

Anyway, psychological question, other than maturity what changed throughout the years of your classes and what changed in your classmates personalities if anything. Maybe you yourself changed over the years to become more popular at school.

I remember our first years being quite segregated, you had the skaters, rockers, emos etc in one group, the gaming and action figure collecters in another group and the hard boys with no time for anything other then girls in another group, by the end of the years, there were two groups, the hardboys and the skaters, emos etc. The nerdy group seemed to have vanished into thin air, I think there was a desire to conform with one of the other two groups.

It was actually quite amusing, really nerdy boys I new in my first years are now using back street words that even I as a black guy don't understand. They wear thier trousers down thier backsides, smoke, drink, have lots of sex etc. Its kind of hard to ever imagine them collecting warhammer and playing with pokemon cards now, but it's amusing to think that now they think they are badass when back in the first years they were playing the violin and in stage six, now they have thier 'whips', 'wifeys' and 'cribs'.

So yeah, what were your school changes like?

It used to be really divided into groups of friends from old schools and Form groups but now everyone's friends with people they get on with from random classes.
Also the hard, smoker group doesn't really exist as much and it's not "cool" to be like that anymore. Either that or it never was, I can't tell - I had barely any friends at the start of school.

 

[RatRace123]

We were very divided in Middle school, all the clicks and that, but when we got to highschool around 11th grade or so we all started to conform.
People still stuck with their friends, but groups intermingled a lot more.

There was still a noticeable line between the rich and poplar and the not so much, but that's how life is around here.

As for me personally, I came out of my shell quite a bit, I was class president for one year and homecoming whatever for another.
I was pretty well known, and not hated... I think.

 

[Synthenoid]

The first two years of my high school experience there were two main groups, the extroverts and the introverts. Each had their own subgroups, jocks, teeny boppers, nerds, etc.

Over the course of the years the defining lines slipped expotentially. Group dynamics radically shifted or even tore themselves apart. It became harder and harder to place any one person in a single group, instead they slowly attained aspects that merged them into a handfull of other groups.

But most of all, what struck me about the entire experience, was how all the introverts at least made it look like they were extroverts, untill their were no shy people left. Introverts, much like the nerds in your case, pulse, ceased to exist, or at least hid it exceptionally well.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Ah... school. I miss the easy work, and the amusing cliques.

Anyway, there was the chavs (who got a bit posher and started wearing polo shirts, but still had no taste and were annoying as hell), who no one liked, the indie kids (hipstery, 'popular', pretentious twats with superiority complex) and then the emos/metalheads/normal people/nerds/scene kids, who all got along together pretty well.

Very little changed over time, but I guess the indie kids got a little bit more friendly to us in Sixth Form, but no one ever liked the chavs. By the time we all left we all sort of got along fairly well (except most of the chavs. Some of them were alright if you got them on your own), but the indie kids were/are always a bit bossy.