Non Uniform Day

There’s not a whole lot to learn from American high school films or TV series. About the only thing I’ve learnt is that American schools have defined groups of pupils who hang out with each other and only ever mix when a member of each group has detention on a Saturday morning where they bitch, whine and realise that they are not so different after all. Its not like that in the UK, not from my school experience anyway. There wasn’t a gang of dumb ‘Jocks’ who played sports, constantly high-fived each other and had parties at the weekends where they’d drink from a keg of beer and grope cheerleaders. I played for the school football team but we weren’t a gang. And the team captain didn’t go out with the head cheerleader as there were no cheerleaders. And I don’t remember a nerd getting his head flushed down the toilet because they didn‘t do the bully’s homework. And people who liked a certain type of music would still talk to other people who were into a different type of music.
I'm not saying that school was a utopian dream. Far from it, but there wasn't as defined groups as American TV make their schools seem.
Maybe a factor why there's no obviously defined set of groups in UK schools is because everyone has to wear the same uniform. I was happy to were a school uniform because I really hated non uniform day which would happen once a year on Comic Relief or some other money raising thing where you paid fifty pence that granted a non uniform pass. I hated it because it was like a fashion parade, and a couple of days before people would be talking about what they would wearing. I can still remember some kid in my year saying “Well I think I might wear my new shell suit with my Nike Air Max trainers. It was 1990.