With the arrival of the Great Depression and an end to child labor, small societies with different priorities and values than adults emerged in America, begginning a new era. As this age persists into the present day, it becomes increasingly clear that high school is a morphed form of reality. The unnatural isolation from adults is peculiar and prompts immaturity. Furthermore, there are far too many students of the same age in one place to possibly characterize by things that actually matter, such as personality or interests, so students take the easy route and make judgements from appearance. These snap judgements, in turn, create a disfigured social hierarchy, reliant on superficial traits that perpetuate a transparent self-confidence among those with the right "look".
This skewed social dynamic not only alters the present for high schoolers, but as this article addresses, affects their future social confidence and self-image. Void of time on the farm or in the workforce with adults as adolescents, high schoolers see the hierarchy of high school as a valid reality an develop their social characteristics accordingly. Upon leaving high school, it becomes clear that the way they were treated there may not have been correct, but many will still bear the detrimental effects for the rest of their life. This proves that the crude nature of high school can reach past its allotted four years.
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