Teachers Have Cliques Too
I never really thought about it until I started my current job. Teachers really do have cliques. Back student teaching at South High there were the Jocks. These were the coaches that would eat together at lunch. At Troy, the cliques were a bit different. They were divided along subject areas. I don't think I ever talked to anyone outside the Social Studies Department for more than 5 minutes in the 8 weeks I was there. My current school has the Cheerleaders; the group of teachers that seem like they were the popular popular ones in high school and still stick together as a group even as teachers. Not saying there is anything wrong with this, people who share common interests gravitate towards each other, it's what we do as human beings. On the other hand, as teachers, we try to celebrate the importance of diversity of beliefs and ideas to our students because diversity drives progress and opens us up to new experiences, yet we don't seem to practice it ourselves. Just an interesting observation.