I'm Irish so I haven't a clue

Yes to a degree. It’s not as bad or as dramatic as in the movies but, there are cliques and there are mean girls and the “more popular people” etc. But in movies it’s wayyyy more exaggerated.

Bullying is really bad. Prom was a huge deal at my school. The staff and teachers really pumped it into our brains that how and what we did on high school would determine our future success or lack there of 🙄😒 I didn’t feel that way.

This site has way more bullies than high school ever will!!!!

😂😂So, in my experience as someone from a small town:Yes, high schoolers tend to develop cliques. In my school, the biggest ones were the jocks (active in sports, kept grades up, hoping for a scholarship so they could escape the small town life). Most of them end up going to UF for school which was only an hour away from our hometown. They’ll move back and get married once they’re ready to settle down. The rednecks. Boy Scouts/FFA/4H. Didn’t care about grades; skipped school to go fishing and hunting and spent weekends on the river getting drunk. They were gonna inherit their family business, so school didn’t matter much.The future military people, who enlisted ASAP and used it to get away and never come back. The girls were split: some were jocks. others spent their time with the rednecks. Either way, majority end up married and/or pregnant within a year of graduating, and never leave the small town life. Unless they happened to marry a military guy and run off using his tags. The popular girl was prom queen and yes it was a huge deal. She didn’t cheer, she did pageants. But yeah. It is pretty cliched 😂

This is all true.

It varies so much by location and subculture. I went to a small school and no one organized into groups like that. They did at the school one of my friends went to though. I also didn’t give a fuck all about prom and never went. Some of my friends did make a big deal going all out. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Depends on the school, by always, but yeah.

My high school wasn't like that. Well prom was a big deal. I'm from a small town so everybody is friendly. While there were "cliques" they weren't to the extreme you see in movies, and surprisingly enough, we didn't have bullies.

My HS was basically like that. I think the size of the HS makes a big difference.

Yes to all of those in my experience. I was bullied really bad so I skipped all the time the days I absolutely had to go I would get physically ill. I didn't go to prom, I wasn't about to get dressed up and voluntarily be in a room with people who treated me like crap.