Hearing the words ‘peer-pressure’ can bring a lot to some people’s minds. Drugs, alcohol and parties are a few of the things a person typically thinks of when hearing that combination of words.  It’s been seen displayed in movies, on T.V. shows, and even in books. Some students even say they’ve even seen it in their own school.

“No one’s really tried to get me to do anything yet,” freshman Dylan Schmidtberger said. “I have seen some other around kids getting pressured into going to parties and drinking, though.”

However some students, like sophomore Kambri Tomanek, said only a certain clique of people really are pressured into doing harmful activities.

“Peer-pressure really isn’t a problem for most kids here,” Tomanek said. “It’s really only the super popular kids that, I guess, feel the need to go out and be stupid. I know that most of them are always trying to get someone else to do drugs and drink or something.”

Freshman Jesse Weilert said that he hasn’t had any experience in being pressured to do anything, but only because he’s been in high school for a shorter amount of time than the majority of people at the school.

“It may just get worse when I get into the older grades,” Weilert said. “I can’t really see many kids my age getting pressured to go out and party. I just don’t think peer-pressure is an issue at our school.”

Sophomore Jordyn Dake said that luckily, peer pressure isn’t even in our school at all.

“No one has ever pressured me to do anything,’ Dake said. “I haven’t seen it going on, and it really just doesn’t seem to be a problem, which is a good thing for everyone.”

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