Social class in schools

I know that most people think that this type of thinking ends when you leave high school, but from my experience it continues until late teens lol. Basically you have the geeks and the popular arrogant guys, what I want to know is why does it always seem to be the 'geeks' who are ill, have asthma, epilepsy, allergies, poor eyesight?? I was a geek for the first few years and have asthma thats when I noticed that the 'cool' people seem to have nothing wrong. I was jelous and am thinking back to school days so... what do you think?

Reply 1

hannah_dru

2

I don't get it.
There were only a few geeks here who had the stereotypical things wrong with them though. Here, the geeks are the ones who dress differently and are into different things.

Reply 2

Metrobeans

19

Unless these people were branded geeks because of thier asthma, epilepsy, allergies, etc, I don't thnk there is any connection between the two.

Reply 3

Elitist

14

Geeks.. ill? Aren't geeks the ones who are never ill and never miss a day of school? Dunno what it's like in your school but it certainly isn't like that in mine!

Reply 4

Anonymous #1

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hannah_dru

I don't get it.
There were only a few geeks here who had the stereotypical things wrong with them though. Here, the geeks are the ones who dress differently and are into different things.

hm, well at my school I can only think of one popular person who had anything medically wrong yet most of the geeks did. :confused:

Reply 5

lucho22

13

Anonymous

I know that most people think that this type of thinking ends when you leave high school, but from my experience it continues until late teens lol. Basically you have the geeks and the popular arrogant guys, what I want to know is why does it always seem to be the 'geeks' who are ill, have asthma, epilepsy, allergies, poor eyesight?? I was a geek for the first few years and have asthma thats when I noticed that the 'cool' people seem to have nothing wrong. I was jelous and am thinking back to school days so... what do you think?

Jeez...that must be the most profound observation I've seen all week.. :rolleyes:

Reply 6

Anarchy Everywhere

2

Trying to work out some correlation between status and other factors is useless my son, especially with something so obscure. But asthma usually means the person is not very sporty and not being very sporty usually means you can't be cool/popular.

Reply 7

Elitist

14

And also, I doubt whether high school stereotypes can really be classed as social statuses :rolleyes:

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