Peer Pressures in High School

Peer Pressures in High School

The biggest pressures students go through in high school is acceptance.   Every kid wants to liked.   They want to have a lot of friends, feel cool, and be respected.   Kids do pretty much anything to be or even get noticed by people.   They want to feel wanted and popular.  
Having friends in high school is essential.   Choosing the true ones is the hard part.   You can never really tell who is the nuisance or the intelligent one.   Kids usually don’t take a good look at who they choose; they choose the one that is well liked and popular.   The kid who can introduce you to more people and get you in.   But trusting people like that can devastate you.    
Feeling noticed is important to high school kids.   Some could care less if they are or not, but for others, being noticed is important.   Kids think that being known by everyone or having a name for yourself is cool and will have more people liking you.   In reality that is not the case.   Having a name for yourself can not always be good.   Being known as the slacker or the tool of the school makes you look bad and even your friends.   Being that way feels good to some kids.   They feel invincible, like they can get away with anything.   Whether it’s drinking or doing drugs, students feel pressured to do it so they can look and act tough to others.   But in the end it just makes them look stupid, and that’s when people begin to lose their respect for them.  
Everyone wants to be respected.   Particularly in high school.   Being respected can get you a lot of friends, a first-class reputation, and liked by teachers.   Getting the respect you crave is the hard part.   Some people don’t realize that earning the respect you want means losing the people and things you care the most about.   For example, best friends, sports, school, family, and yourself.   Students tend to side and act like the kids they want to be like and embarrass others by doing dim-witted actions.   Students will disrespect others and themselves to obtain...