Julie Mossman, a cheerleader at Green Valley High School, breaks the mold. In addition to cheering for the school's teams, she also serves as student body secretary and is enrolled in honors classes. These are the teens with pocket protectors, TI-89 calculators and very high GPAs. They're known for their academic achievements, not their athletic abilities. Yet again, one model doesn't describe all bright students.
Many teens reject the stereotypes and refuse to limit their associations to one particular group.
If I confine myself to one type of people, I will never meet anyone new. Still cliques persist. In their most negative sense, cliques prevent students from meeting other people and leave some students isolated. Those teens who do not belong to a particular group feel left out from the high school crowd. At the same time, cliques may help some students adjust to high school.