Choosing New Friends or Old Friends
Arrowhead having eight feeder schools, tends to make students meet new people, but they also talk to their old friends from middle school.
There are eight feeder schools sending students to Arrowhead High School: Swallow, Lake Country, North Lake, Stone Bank, Lake Country, North Shore, Merton, and Richmond. When all of the students come to Arrowhead, they meet other students from the other schools. Some students stay friends with their old middle school classmates, and some do not.
Alisha Arndt, a senior, says a small part of her friends group is from her middle school, but it’s because she went to a school in Waukesha. She says, “I hang out with my new friends from Arrowhead more often than my old middle school friends because they live in Waukesha, and we all have busy schedules.”
Alyssa Stachowiak, a senior from Stone Bank Middle School, says, “I have a couple really good friends from Stone Bank, but I have a lot of old friends who I don’t really talk to anymore.”
Stachowiak also says a third of her friends are from her middle school, but the rest met at Arrowhead High School. Stachowiak says that she hangs out with her friends from middle school more than her friends from high school because she has bonded with them and has more in common with them.
Amy Stephens, a senior who went to Stone Bank Middle School, says, “I think probably a quarter of my friends are from my middle school, and the rest I’ve met
at Arrowhead.”
Stephens says other than a single friend from her middle school, she hangs out with the people she has met from Arrowhead more often, but she still considers the other people from her middle school friends, even though she doesn’t hang out with them as often.
Stephens also says that, “I talk to some of the people from my middle school, but there are some that I don’t care for.”
Arlo Ennis, a senior who went to Swallow Middle School, says he only talks to a few people from his old middle school, but the ones he talks to, he is very close with.
Ennis says, “I hang out with my new friends from Arrowhead more because they make up most of my sports teams.” He says there are only two or three friends from his friend group from his middle school.
John Widish, a senior who went to Stone Bank Middle School, says, “I am very close with my friends from middle school. My two best friends and my girlfriend all went to Stone Bank.”
Widish says he hangs out with his old friends from middle school the most because he is closer with them than his friends from Arrowhead.
Haley Thomas, a senior from North Shore Middle School, says she still hangs out with a majority of her friends from middle school, and there are three who she still eats lunch with everyday. She says, “I hang out with a lot of people from other high schools, but between middle school friends and new friends from Arrowhead, I hang out with my old friends from middle school more.”
