I could talk at great length about the social structure of my secondary school, but time eludes me right now.
Main point: the 'burnout' group wasn't made up of kids who didn't get involved with school activities, but kids who got in trouble/smoked behind the bikesheds/disrupted classes/had fights in the park on the way home. As if they were actively fighting the system rather than ignoring it (there was plenty of ignoring going on as well - this would be more true of the 'misfit' category).
Your definition of 'getting involved' would make me and my friends among the most jock-like which surprises me! We were picked on by the popular kids for being spoddy teachers pets. However our (comprehensive) school was more academically orientated than sport orientated - sport was treated as a neutral activity by the burnouts and there was a mixture of sporty kids distributed across the social groups.
ARRGH I have too much work on to think about this in depth!
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Main point: the 'burnout' group wasn't made up of kids who didn't get involved with school activities, but kids who got in trouble/smoked behind the bikesheds/disrupted classes/had fights in the park on the way home. As if they were actively fighting the system rather than ignoring it (there was plenty of ignoring going on as well - this would be more true of the 'misfit' category).
Your definition of 'getting involved' would make me and my friends among the most jock-like which surprises me! We were picked on by the popular kids for being spoddy teachers pets. However our (comprehensive) school was more academically orientated than sport orientated - sport was treated as a neutral activity by the burnouts and there was a mixture of sporty kids distributed across the social groups.
ARRGH I have too much work on to think about this in depth!