High School Stereotypes
As a young child, all you know about high school is how it is portrayed in the media. However, the media’s portrayal only displays the glamorous aspects of high school. Movies such as Easy A and Mean Girls and television shows such as The Secret Life of the American Teenager and Awkward all portray high school in a negative viewpoint. However, high school can be a great experience. It is what you make of it that will make high school the best or worst years of your life.
School spirit is a unifying cause among high school students As portrayed in the media, all students and faculty unite in order to support their school. Whether it is at a football game or a basketball game, a student cheering section is always present. Student cheering sections are a huge determining factor in a team’s performance. The purpose of them is to draw a crowd in order to motivate the players through chants and gestures. All of which is done to energize the players to pull off a win for the school. School spirit is the only aspect of high …show more content…
However, for the average student that social life does not exist. The average high school student spends a great deal of time doing homework and stressing over grades. All of which is in preparation for the scariest part of high school, graduation. In the media, characters party throughout their four years of high school, do not do any homework and yet, are accepted into one of the top ranked colleges in the country. This is not realistic. The competition for entrance into college is more competitive than ever before. Skating by during high school is now a thing of the past. The high school experience the average person experiences is all about real life circumstances in preparation for the future in contrast to the medias portrayal which consists of actors following a script in order to earn a
School spirit is a unifying cause among high school students As portrayed in the media, all students and faculty unite in order to support their school. Whether it is at a football game or a basketball game, a student cheering section is always present. Student cheering sections are a huge determining factor in a team’s performance. The purpose of them is to draw a crowd in order to motivate the players through chants and gestures. All of which is done to energize the players to pull off a win for the school. School spirit is the only aspect of high …show more content…
However, for the average student that social life does not exist. The average high school student spends a great deal of time doing homework and stressing over grades. All of which is in preparation for the scariest part of high school, graduation. In the media, characters party throughout their four years of high school, do not do any homework and yet, are accepted into one of the top ranked colleges in the country. This is not realistic. The competition for entrance into college is more competitive than ever before. Skating by during high school is now a thing of the past. The high school experience the average person experiences is all about real life circumstances in preparation for the future in contrast to the medias portrayal which consists of actors following a script in order to earn a