There are so many movies where the producers stereotype the real life of American teenagers. Usually, you always see a guy or girl with the perfect life; they always have a boyfriend or girlfriend, they play for the greatest sports team, and they have the most laid back parents.

Recently, I sat and talked with a couple of my friends about this topic and it turn out, we all felt the same way. For example, in the movie Mean Girls, there were cliques, jock lunch tables, and something they like to call “the plastics.” At FHN, our student body is wildly mixed with different clubs, sports, and social activities. Everyday when I walk into school and enter the lunch room I notice there isn’t a jock, art freak, or “plastics” table. If you actually take the time out to look in the crowded halls or the table filled lunch rooms, you will see that everyone has their group of friends and they are all diverse.

Do the producers really know how it affects peoples lives? I don’t think they understand the kind of pressure teens are under these days. I catch myself everyday waking up and asking a series of questions: does my hair look good, is this shirt too flashy, and are my shoes ugly? This is the pressure movies put us under: to become something we’re not in high school. The movies have people starting a diversion in their school when their suppose to act as one staff, one student body, and one school.

I don’t think the producers actually thought about how unreal their stereotypes actually are. I mean seriously, no kid at this school has the perfect life where everything always works out for them. And there definitely are not little clicks where everyone is the exact same and won’t let anyone else into their group. In reality, our school is nothing like the schools in movies and it really bothers me how the producers portray what high schools are like. I am proud to be at a school where everyone is diverse and can be whoever they want to be.