Highschool By George White Summary

In White’s reading, she explained her main idea of highschool. She says that highschool to her consisted of tribe like groups and statuses, which I completely disagree with . The way White describes the student in her high school is much like something you would see out of a movie. This is why I disagree because it seems so “outdone” and cliche almost. When she keeps repeating “Oh, there’s jocks, and cheerleaders, and the weird kids etc”.. We already know what to expect. She says “ The cafeteria is a high school's proving ground.” I also disagree. I want to start by saying that White’s perception of highschool and mine will be two different things just because of our time differences. We lived in different years, so over all of these years,
If you were to walk into a cafeteria I’m sure you would see “groups”, meaning black kids sitting with blacks and whites sitting with whites etc. As soon as those kids get up , to go wherever, they almost fuse together. Everyone in highschool now are so alike that there is virtually no group. If we had to name a group there would only be one, because of the shared interest. Since trends these days are required, everyone has the same thing and thinks about the same thing. We are being programmed by all of the technologies today . Not only are we not ourselves, we are becoming each other. This has ups and downs, like everything in life. This would be a good thing because there would be less discrimination and bullying like you would experience in the movies. The understanding between two students would be stronger now than before. This can be bad because the students essentially have no taste of life. They don’t know who they really are or how to be themselves, so they will find themselves following behind someone else. So this is actually a huge issue . Another topic i disagree with is the placement of students. “ The popular kids always cluster around the same area”. This is untrue because, “popular” kids don’t really see themselves as popular, known