Every actual human with lived experience in society knows, that real life is much more diverse than school. In school, there’s at best a few cliques and mostly a single social hierarchy. After school, even during student years, but even more so when entering the workforce, there’s incredible variety of social hierarchies to climb, skills to learn and excel within, and career paths to take.
Kids are assholes in a way that would get most adults fired or imprisoned.
There are social pressures to conform, but you don’t get called names for wearing off brand shoes the way kids were when I was in grade school.