Showoff teens6/16/2023 In choosing to wear a popular brand, kids brand themselves. And there may not be much else for them to base status on." Having the Right Clothes is a way of visually placing themselves within the social hierarchy. The result being that the slightest differences─like a brand of jeans─become invested with an incredible amount of significance.Īs Northwestern University's Adam Galinsky explained: "Maybe clothes matter because, at that age, you're unsure of status. Yet we give adolescents so few outlets to actually express themselves and allow them to find a place in the social hierarchy. However, amid all this sameness, culture extols the adolescent who is an individual─better yet, a leader of his peers. Teens might try for a different part-time job, or apply to different colleges (but those jobs and colleges are not really all that different from each other, either). Teens' lives are so fundamentally similar─both similar to each others', even very similar to much younger children, too. The above quote comes from Joe Allen's compelling new book, Escaping the Endless Adolescence, and regular readers of our blog will recognize that the passage was also the basis for one of our most popular recent columns, on why teens are growing up so slowly today. And then we're surprised they have some difficulty establishing a sense of their own individuality." We give them only a handful of ways in which they can meaningfully demonstrate their competencies. We ask them all to take almost the exact same courses and do the exact same work and be graded relative to one another. We equip them with similar gadgets, expose them to the same TV shows, lessons, and sports. We group them all within a year or so of one another in age. Sprague and the school’s cheerleading coach also did not return messages seeking additional comment."We place kids in schools together with hundreds, sometimes thousands, of other kids typically from similar economic and cultural backgrounds. Officials at Clayton Valley Charter High School - home of the Ugly Eagles - did not have an immediate comment when reached Monday morning by The Post. Other students at the scene reacted wildly after the melee, including one who spoke directly to the camera and said he loved “watching rumbles.” “Break it up, break that s–t up,” one person says off-camera as the girls collect themselves after the fight. At one point, Sprague is seen on top of the other girl, pummeling her with vicious, repetitive, closed-fist blows to her back and face. Seconds later, the unidentified girl slapped Sprague in the face, sparking a brutal fight in which Sprague got the best of her antagonistic counterpart. “Don’t f–king touch me,” Sprague replies. “What are you going to do?” the unidentified girl says. Sprague then told the girl standing over her to get her finger out of her face, quickly escalating tensions as several witnesses looked on. Nobody speaks on you guys, nobody talks about you guys.” “No, nobody wants to fight,” Sprague replies. “Do you want to fight?” the girl tells Sprague, according to the 92-second clip. The footage, posted early Saturday, purportedly shows Savannah Sprague, a cheerleader for Clayton Valley Charter High School, brutally beating an unidentified girl who had just challenged her to a fight as the cheerleader sat at a table in Concord while surrounded by other youngsters, some still holding their backpacks. So my little sister got in a fight tonight and i don’t think i’ve ever been more proud □□ with her phone in her hand & everything lmao THATS MY MF SISTER LETS GOOOOOOO /8Bpxc30d0ZĪ pint-size cheerleader in California pummeled another girl who challenged her to a fight while still in her uniform, a dramatic video shows.
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