It's a total stereotype, and I don't understand how they get away with it except for the fact that apparently SOME, not all, high schools do experience this.
First of all - NO WAY do cheerleaders wear their uniforms every day. They only ever did it on game day, and that was the same for other high schools that I knew of. And the football players don't wear their pads during school either - on game days they'll either wear their jerseys or dress up, depending on whether the game is home or away.
Second - the meanness has to depend on the clique-iness of the school. My high school had a lot of overlap between all the clubs, despite being a large, public school. So there wasn't this disconnect or hierarchy that we see in the films and TV - our star football player played the tenor sax in our wind ensemble; we had field hockey players who were in the musical in the spring; etc. But I do hear from other people, who, like Rachel, hated high school, that they did have to deal with the hierarchy and the cliques. But not necessarily the cheerleaders.
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Date: 2009-09-25 11:17 am (UTC)First of all - NO WAY do cheerleaders wear their uniforms every day. They only ever did it on game day, and that was the same for other high schools that I knew of. And the football players don't wear their pads during school either - on game days they'll either wear their jerseys or dress up, depending on whether the game is home or away.
Second - the meanness has to depend on the clique-iness of the school. My high school had a lot of overlap between all the clubs, despite being a large, public school. So there wasn't this disconnect or hierarchy that we see in the films and TV - our star football player played the tenor sax in our wind ensemble; we had field hockey players who were in the musical in the spring; etc. But I do hear from other people, who, like Rachel, hated high school, that they did have to deal with the hierarchy and the cliques. But not necessarily the cheerleaders.