Were you a pick-er, a pick-ee, or in between in school? About This Page:

[graygables]

When I lived in Germany, I was pretty OK on the 'totem pole'. I wasn't the most popular girl, but most of us were pretty happily centered. We had very few clique problems.

When we moved back to the States, however, it was another story entirely. My first day of school, I was called "Heidi the Nazi" ([img]/ubb/images/graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] I'm an AMERICAN and my Dad was in the *US* Army???) and made fun of b/c of my clothes (more German than American, I guess). This start pretty much followed me through high school. I have a few horror stories, but I definitely became a pick-ee just for moving from another country. I'm sure a lot of it was jealousy, but it made my Jr High and High school years MISERABLE.

Where were you in the pecking order?

[BabieeMelly]

I wasn't really a part of that order. I didn't get picked on, and I didn't pick on anyone. There really wasn't much of that going on in my school. I was always the school president and in charge of things (ME? Needing to be the boss? Shocker, I know [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]) so I made sure none of that was going on. If I saw kids getting picked on I always tried to stop it. But it really didn't happen much [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502no_prv.gif[/img]

[BelleoftheBallLV]

i was too busy being mature to have friends in high school lol, all my friends were in college after my sophmore year. i got tagged with an awful rep in middle school, not bad to me, but bad to them, and then nobody wanted to be my friend, which wasnt so bad. i had a clique in freshman and junior year, i was the alpha but as a group we were pretty much outsiders. that curse has followed me tho, to this day i have no friends, well i think maybe a girl i talk to at my scrap store likes me, which is great, cos i can talk shop with her, but besides my family, i dont really go out. i love to, but i just dont find people i mesh with here in vegas.

[luvnwdwgal]

I never picked on anybody in school, and nobody picked on me either.

[GoofyMom]

I was never in the most "popular" clique in school, but that was fine because you had to be easy and do drugs. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] Not my style. I had a lot of friends and I was very happy with my social life.

[Tigger1221]

I was definitely a pickee. That is until I had had enough. One day one of the girls who thought is was fun to pick on me decided, she would just eliminate me all together. She picked a fight with me at my bus stop and little did I know she had a knife. All I can say for her was BIG mistake, I freaked out and pretty much beat her up so bad 6 football players had to pull me off her and she had to go to the hospital . No one picked on me after that. The worst part is I was quiet in school I did not pick on any one so I still do not know why the girl go it in her head to try and take me out so to speak. The only good thing is that No one picked on me after that.

[EmpressLizBunny]

i would have been a pickee if my school wasnt to small to realy have problems from kindergarden-9th grade i was picked on because of my weight or because i cried to much but after 9th grade no one realy picked on me

[boosmom96]

I had the same group of friends all through Junior & Senior High. I never got picked on and I never picked on anyone. I don't really remember any cliques at school.

[Shadowfax]

I was overweight, wore glasses, and had braces; pretty much the trifecta for being a pick-ee. But through it all I had good friends. I was picked on mostly in elementary school. Once I moved on to middle and high school I found lots of great friends and didn't have any more trouble.

[LBAK]

I wasn't picked on really. I was in the middle clique and that suited me fine. Cliques in my DD's grade were brutal, I hate high school!

[piratelady]

I was definately the pickee. In elementary school a little girl used to take my snack money every day. When I was working at a state agency once, I looked her up and she was a welfare mom with six kids. In Jr. High and High School, I was fat and wore glasses, so still pickee.
Necie

[heather2148]

I only remember being picked on in the 5th grade. Moved to a new school mid year and my mother had permed my hair (I looked like Annie - my hair is strawberry blonde and was redder when I was younger). And I wore head gear for my braces! Does anyone remember head gear? And to top it off, I had this big fake fur winter coat! Yes I looked like a freak.

[Teresa]

I was a bit in the middle, although I frequently protcected the pickees. (of which Dsis was one!)

[DrDolphin]

I was usually not in the most popular group, but I was in a good group that cared about each other and there wasn't much picking - either way. Even when I was a cheerleader - I wasn't in the most popular group (since I "moved in" from the lower group). Didn't bother me in the least.

[mestitch]

We didn't really have cliques like that in high school. You had the smart, focused, including jocks, group. And then the weird, smoking group that hung out by the drink machines all day [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img] But everybody got along with everybody.