School cliques through a students perspective

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School cliques through a students perspective

• By Keshia Smith
• Quasar

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Why cliques?

• its something that everyone can relate,
  understand and do something about.
• Its an experiment
• How it relates to the theme.

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What is a clique?

• Dictionary definition an unofficial group with
  shared interest that spend time together and
  exclude others.
• Cliques only allow members to be friends with
  other members of the clique or people who the
  clique decided are cool
• Proof?

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Why cliques evolve

• Cliques evolve because it gives people a place
  where they feel safe, with a clear ideal of
  acceptable behavior.
• In a recent nationwide survey of teenage girls,
  96.3 percent of the respondents claimed that
  cliques existed in their schools

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Why cliques evolve

• To ease there way through large peer groups
• To categorize there peers
• To establish an identity
• To gain a since of belonging

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How cliques evolve

• Cliques start at a very young age.
• According to scholastics.com, cliques start
  forming in the fourth and 5th grade, with there
  power peaking in middle school, but people I
  interviewed say they had cliques as young as
  kindergarten.

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How cliques evolve

• Experts say human beings hate the feeling of
  being different, so thats why people with the
  same ethnicity, gender, intellectual ability, or
  family background tend to stick together.
• Groups can turn mean because defining other
  people as different helps there own group
  cohere.

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Are cliques bad?

• Excludes others
• Taunting-bulling
• Fighting
• Causes depression and can lead to murder or
  suicide.

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!Statistics!

• 71 of teachers believe they always intervene
  when someone is bulling someone. only 25 of
  students agree
• 10 of students who drop out of school do so
  because of bulling.
• Suicide 11th leading cause of death in America,
  third leading cause of death in teens in America.

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Sources

• Rosyand Wiseman, the author of queen bees and
  wanna-bees the book that inspired the movie Mean
  Girls.
• Web sites like this one Content.scholastics.com/b
  rowse/article.jsp?id2120
• The book odd girl speaks out

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More Sources

• http//parents.berkeley.edu/advice/teens/cliques.h
  tml
• http//www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/vpi/stat.asp

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Original work

• Story called cliques and clicks Im writing for
  the Indianapolis Star
• Movie I made about cliques.