[Cpl. Shrike]

I think european kids are less subject to this as he describes in US schools.
And i don't think it is so at every US school.
But i can surly recognize what he speaks of while it wasen't that layed on thick in our shool but there where actually groups of different types of people.
There was "popular" group who did indeed every thing for fashion like wearing nikes and popular brands. And there was this study group while they didn't got picked upon as bad as described (i think it wasen't the case but then again i wasen't in the study group so the bulling might have had heavier impact on them as others might think). There where also a few who where on them selfs like stefan describes.
Me and a few friends where in the so called "freak" group. doing bad ass stuff and smoking pot. But our group was also very popular as we where bad ass mofo's.
But to get back at the article. It has to written a bit black and white it's very hard to describe the cases if you also describe all the grey area's if one does that the article looks like everything is in order and no such groups exist at all. And form what i heard and read and seen is that in the US everything is much more competative. In that environment it's much more likely for "dumber" popular people to from a group to mok the geeks.
As for real life after school yes more and more of both type groups get mingled and it doesn't stand out so much. And the popular ppl don't pester geeks is that they realize they need the geeks. And the peopl lose the school groups they where in and it is much harder to find/form a new group based on bulling. later in life the groups will form around other things mostly social class or religion etc etc things that count more in real life.
And so the bulling continues but between other types of groups.