Getting Ready for Your First High School Year
High school can be a really scary experience. Incoming freshman face a lot of rumors and fears to overcome. So many TV shows and books paint these false pictures of what high school is like. Popular television shows the popular girls trekking around with Louis Vuitton Replica Handbags, and Balenciaga Replica Handbags making fun of everyone else. It had everyone separated into groups and cliques that can barely intertwine without something going wrong. People tell freshman scary stories of being beat up on the first day of school or being picked on all the time. High school is a right of passage, not a torture zone.
High school doesn’t have as many social rules as TV pretends it does. Unless you fall into a twilight zone, it’s very unlikely that your high school will have rigid lines of separation. Cliques are pretty much things of the past. Everyone has the close knit group of friends, but there are no rules that say you can or cannot be friends with other people. If people like people that is all there is to it. In some high schools everyone is friendly to each other. It is a dime a dozen, but there are high schools where everyone knows everyone.
There are smaller high schools for those who just can’t handle the enormity of other ones. Some communities are just small enough that you can find a small school, or you can enroll into a private school. At a private or small school, you get the opportunity to branch out to everyone and get a hands on experience.
Also, all they hype about freshman getting hazed and ganged up on is a myth. It is against the law to haze people anyway. Plus,. Competition between classes is for fun and in good intention, not to fuel hate or bad feelings. Upperclassmen and underclassmen will always have an ongoing banter with each other, but it should never go beyond that. Any extreme bullying or any physical interactions at all are unacceptable. Principals and teachers will put a top to anything that could cause someone harm. Plus, what high school wants to have everyone ganging up again each other?
Managing your new work loads will be the scariest part of high school. High school is a time to be in constant over drive. You have to be an athlete, a good students, a friends, and a club member. Never before have kids been pushed to do so many things at once, but it is doable. When getting ready to go to high school, don’t be scared. People just have fun trying to make freshman nervous, that’s all it is. Your clothes or book bag won’t get you beat up. High school is a positive experience.
