I hated high school. I felt isolated because certain classmates targeted me. It made me feel insecure and powerless. Teasing made me feel self-conscious. It was not a happy childhood.
I convinced her that it would be fun to mess up Regina George’s life. So I had her pretend to be friends with Regina, and then she would come to my house after and we would just laugh about all the dumb stuff Regina said.
Dialogue from the movie Mean Girls
The stereotype of a bully is that he’s male, overweight and a stranger. But a lot of what we are learning about girls is that they hurt their friends.
Quotation from Rachel Simmons
Girl’s can be spiteful and it is all based in jealousy. It’s a sad world that the young think they will have friends for ever and can play pretend friends at will. Poor them.
I’m sorry you had such an awful time of it.
Seems to have been a common experience but one that leads toward a richer understanding later.
I was more in the out side than the in side. I was lucky, though, to have a few close friends…
Now sometimes I hate watching my sons navigate the teen years.
Prom time is coming…
There are some reasons it is better to get old, I guess.
Yep high school seriously blew. I was never in the popular crowd and i thank any god you wish to name that was so. I see those people now and they suck big time. I didn’t have to deal with too much crap though since i learned early on how to outwardly show no pain or interest in the bully’s teasing. If a person like that can’t get a reaction from you they usually get bored and leave. It also helped i grew like a foot taller between 5th and 6th grade. I was taller than pretty much any bully there. They tend to not like a challenge being the cowards they truly are.
Sorry to hear you had a hard time though. That sucks.
I kept a low profile in high school – with other low profile types.
Learned how brutal girls can be while in public school.
I’m sorry that was your experience. Their loss, entirely.
God, girls are cruel. I remember being in the place. But strangely enough, years later, a girl told me I’d been cruel to her. And at the time I didn’t think I’d been important enough to make that kind of impact on someone. It changed the whole way I viewed high school.
I am so sad to report from the front lines that it is in full throttle by third grade now. Full throttle. It is the one and only reason I consider home schooling once a week or so. And why I keep leading a Girl Scout troop — so we have a place to work on it. Gah.
high school… a lot of people hated it. seems to me the only people who liked it are the ones who were popular then, but then never made it beyond their high school glory. the ones who were shunned in high school are the ones who learned to rise above it all and actually make something of themselves.
and that’s my little blurb at 6:21 am on a saturday morning.
I didn’t like high school either… kids can be quite mean and dumb. The last couple of years were fine though, but the rest sucked.