Social Status
by: Michael
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For answers to Question #4:
To link back to Ms. Coleman's Home Page:
What
are the popular groups at school? Who’s
cool and who’s not? Why do
kids do certain things for popularity?
Well they might think they are being cool when really their not.
Some kids do things like drugs for popularity.
How much does it affect their everyday lives?
78% of teens say it would be easy to get away with drugs.
That doesn’t mean its right though.
People fall under many categories of groups. These groups include “average people, gangsters, Goths, jocks, nerds, preps, physcos, punks, rockers, and skaters. Each group has their own style of things. Some dress like which group they’re in. Mostly the preps and jocks are the most popular. All groups are very easy to tell apart from the others. How does it affect teen’s everyday lives?
Some
groups put other groups down to feel better about them selves.
The nerds are the ones who are most put down.
The nerds are usually smart and kids tend to feel jealous.
They like to impress their friends by making fun of others.
Some kids do it because they might be treated that way at home.
Confidence
is a big part of popularity. The
kids who worry about everything usually aren’t part of a “cool”
group. Kids who are
confident usually are more popular.
They don’t worry about their appearance as much, which makes them
not care.
The
kids who try to fit in too much and always try to hang around with the
cool people usually aren’t cool.
Everyone needs a good friend to hang around with.
If you are with someone who is just like you then you won’t worry
about your self-image. Also
you don’t tend to get picked on because you’re with someone else.
There
are certain things that make you popular.
Like doing things to impress you friends.
They might encourage you by laughing.
Which makes the kids keep on doing whatever it is their doing
because they thing that everyone likes it.
It does not lead to good habits to have good behavior.
Another
part of teen’s lives is drugs. They
get pressured into doing them. Like
for instance if someone tries smoking and keeps doing it they’ll start
getting addicted to worse things.
If one kid says “no” to doing drugs then others might follow.
Addiction
is very bad with drugs. You get so used to doing it, and it gets
hard to stop. That’s why everyone has to say no unless you want to
mess up your life. If you keep trying and doing what people say they
will keep offering drugs to you.
Other
people think people are cool by doing things such as drugs.
They also might think its cool to be disrespectful to teachers of
adults. They wont say to
stop doing something if they think its funny.
Controlling yourself is very important.
If you worry too much about your social status its less likely
you’re going to be popular. Don’t
worry about what people think.