The school system. Just these three words are enough to conjure up conversations of rushed assignments and picky teachers. But something to be even more discussed is the social hierarchy and how its decided.
The Iphone. It is a plague, a scourge placed on this earth to ensure that the "cool" people stay at the top of the school food chain and the drab people with their blackberry's stay right near the bottom. It seems that close to everyone these days owns at least one or more apple product, why? Because the more of these products you own the "cooler" you are. Whats even more important than even simply owning one of these phones is to own the most recent one. If you still own an iphone that is before an iphone 4 prepare for ridicule and humiliation. Having an Iphone 5 puts you at the pinnacle of popularity, but with the recent release of the Iphone 5s people are beginning to throw out their now obsolete Iphone 5's. The most interesting part of this Iphone phenomenon is how brainwashed the students have become. Even though the Iphone 5s is virtually the same as the 5 many students still feel the need for this easy social status upgrade. The sheer prospect, for an iphone owner, that any other product exists is ludicrous. The owning of an Iphone is only the beginning of the complex multitude of this social pyramid scheme that is high school hierarchy.
The Iphone is the gateway to the "twitter sphere" where the number of favorites you get or the amount of followers that you have can make you king of the school. This medium has added all new diversity to how every school runs and operates. High school hierarchy is something that many experience but very few fully understand. The only objective of writing this is to simplify the normally intangible aspect of a high school environment. It is an issue that runs deep and affects everyone in high school.
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