Top 10 Most Unrealistic High School Stereotypes In Movies and TV

I can't even express how much the popular cheerleader stereotype bothers me. Most cheer teams don't even use pom-poms. It's really physically grueling and dangerous.

I've seen that one so many times too. Society in general tends to believe that people involved with sports are not clever or intelligent, but that's another stereotype that's just not true. I mean, look at me. I'm like the female version of Sheldon Cooper in school, but sports are something I still enjoy doing. I'm sure there are a lot of jocks that love Star Trek or something.

For me, the typical jocks who base their lives on the status of their favorite team and think that athleticism is the most important thing to them are annoying. However, people can enjoy playing sports and getting fit, including the most academic of students. I'm a hard-working physics geek myself, and I enjoy martial arts, which is the main thing keeping me fit, so it's pretty important.

Fortunately, that's not a stereotype I see very often. It really annoys me, though, every time I see it because I'm extremely awkward and introverted as a person. I hate when they portray shy people as outcasts that have nobody to talk to. Everyone has at least one friend or a close family member to talk to. Nobody is alone.

I am a little bit of a loner, but I have 5 friends. I'm mostly around my boyfriend, my sister, and my friend Lazuli.

This is one of the stereotypes I hate, not only in high school but in life in general. The color of our hair says nothing about who we are. It's our personality and intelligence that matter.

This stereotype makes no sense at all. I have blond hair, and I'm pretty smart. I swear the guys who made Pokémon purposefully gave Clemont blond hair just to break down the stereotype.
#ClemontIsAwesome!

Hair color has nothing to do with brain power. The smartest girl that went to my high school is blonde, and she was valedictorian.

Mostly, black girls are portrayed SO WRONGLY in popular culture. Most of them are portrayed as being loud, ghetto, and talking in an accent. Some black girls are like that, but I have a lot of black friends who are well-spoken and polite. I haven't ever seen a black girl in a film or TV show that doesn't have a "diva" attitude.

Eesh. As a black female, I can see where people are coming from. But hey, I grew up in the ghetto anyway. But still, my mother raised me to be a polite young lady who can mess you up if you disrespect me or my family.

In every teen movie or TV show, they need to have "the ugly" character. Have you ever noticed that most of the time this girl wears glasses? Girls with glasses are attractive and sophisticated.

Hey, I was the one in high school with glasses and braces.

Not all girls with glasses are ugly...

This stereotype is kind of like the "dumb jock" one, with the only difference being that in this particular situation, girls make up this stereotype so they can make excuses for their crush when he treats others like crap.

It's positive when it happens in a movie. It's like, "Treat others as you'd like to be treated," but it rarely happens.

No one is ugly at my school, but lots of people there get bullied.

Being a glasses wearer myself, I don't like how glasses seem to equal high intelligence and zero popularity. Not that I want to be seen as dumb or anything. It's just that I don't like the false representation. People can be goofy, sporty, artsy, and wear glasses too. Glasses just mean you have bad eyesight. It doesn't automatically equal intelligence. Plus, being smart doesn't mean you don't have friends or social standing.

The smart guy in my class interacts with his friends a lot. These stereotypes are not accurate whatsoever. Intelligence and social life don't correlate.

HAHAH not really. I mean, no one that I know or have seen at my school is particularly ugly. I don't know.

I am Asian, and while I do look nerdy, I am horrible at math.

Yes, because all of one race HAS to be nerdy.

I'm either called this or a nerd. Both can be interchangeable as they're often associated with good grades, but they're different in other ways.

A+ student, wants to win everything, and is very competitive. They're often perfectionists and very hard on themselves.

*Cough* *Cough* Kim Possible and Ren Stevens from *Even Stevens,* just to name a few.

I have to admit, I can be a sucker for this one, but I prefer the goofball who will watch superhero movies with me and go to Harry Potter World any day.

That guy that plays girls faster than a game of Uno against a toddler.

Lol, this makes me laugh. How do they get their perfectly timed information? But I have to admit, at my old job, I was the go-to person that people liked to dump all their personal info on. Sometimes it was okay, but other times I was just like, "Why are you telling me this?" They're lucky I'm not some maniacal villain that would store that info for later use... mwahaha!

That's definitely me. Everyone thinks this person is an outsider, but really, he's the biggest insider there is.

Often a cheerleader or student president. A prime example is Betty Cooper from Riverdale.

There are barely any emos in my school. There are only 2 students who are emo in the whole 9th grade at my school.