Imagine living in a world where you’re always the outsider. Everything that is said is spoken around you and without your knowing. And also at times you’re asked to help keep this underground line of communication moving smoothly. By passing seemingly top secret messages to the proper recipients, all the while never knowing what is being said or whom it’s about; ostracizing or alienating you because you’re not popular or a part of a certain, level of status.
This happens every day in different schools throughout America. It’s a form of status building. Margaret J. Finders puts this occurrence into prospective for us in her writing entitled “Note-Passing: Struggles for Status.” The most interesting thing about this piece is how Margaret points out the fact that girls are more likely to par take in this form of communication than boys are. Which begs the question; are girls in more need of status groups and classifications than boys are? Or do boys classify themselves differently?
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