Minorities: Senior Boys Basketball Losers

 

The dimly lit hallways of high school are all filled with a specific caste system that consists of cliques. The one group of students that is often overlooked because of their lack of social power is the senior boys basketball team. Above the team are the pretty girls, the hockey beauty's, the theatre geeks, the math nerds, the art hipsters; at the very top of the high school pyramid are the hard core smoke pit junkies. The junkies are worshiped when they walk through the tightly packed halls. People fall to their knees to praise them and kiss the ground they walk on just to show their love of the cigarette-smoking-rock-and-roll ways of the smoke pit junkies. Their face piercings sparkle under the fluorescent lights which lets the minorities cliques, like the senior boys basketball team, know that the junkies rule the school. The boys who play basketball aren't just oppressed by the students, being brutally ridiculed everyday for their lack of coordination, dorky style, and donkey like faces; they are also oppressed by the faculty. They aren't given any special treatment at all. When they miss every Friday class for a whole semester because of their meaningless tournaments, the teachers would never even dream of excusing them from their assignments. They have to do every single assignment that they miss every Friday, no matter what.  The teacher never falls for the “oh but we had basketball provincials” excuse. The pecking order in high school can sometimes be brutal, but there has to be a clique at the bottom. And with their complete lack of allure, sex appeal, intelligence, social skills, and friends, there is not better clique suited for the bottom of the social pyramid then the senior boys basketball team.