Are High School Fraternities legit?
 

I have some friends who were in high school fraternities. They basically had greek letters, loose affiliation with other chapters at a few other high schools, and each group had a meeting place and rushed, and had pledging. There was no adult control or supervision, so you can kind of figure these weren't looked upon too highly by the school, but they all had a good time, and made some connections to college fraternities etc.

I think its a big midwest and long island thing.


Not sure if there were sororities or not.

I was a Sigma Tau in HS. No One knew of Greek Organizations in those days.

With the internet there is so much more information today!

But they follow only what they want to and are Idiots.:rolleyes:

So, they try to be Adults, Well, They Aint.:eek: :o

Is this an AutoBiography?:confused:

whaaaat?

There's "Pike" and "Delta" at another town's HS. I don't know much about them, but from what I gather, they sound more like rivals or gangs more than fraternities.

I'm from the midwest and I've never even heard of the notion of HS fraternities until this board. I think if anyone at my high school tried to start a fraternity that they would get beat up...good.

I have never heard of this but did a quick goggle search to see what I could find... found a few, but like most college fraternities pages, they two are very out of date here are a few...

http://www.angelfire.com/ms2/pkomega/
This is an interesting one --->http://www.geocities.com/phikappaec/index.htm
http://www.geocities.com/pkgt/

From what I found from this search it seems like this may be popular in the southern Midwest states, I don’t know. I think this is interesting, but I agree I think these are in most cases not very productive. Unless they would have some sort of Teacher supervision. I think the potential for harm is much greater here considering the maturity level of high school students. But this again is just a first impression, thier a defently people that would say the same about college fraternities, just becuase they don't know much about them.

Read Bob Green's (Syndicated columnist) book "Be True To Your School" about parts of his junior and senior years at Bexley High School near Columbus, Ohio. (1964/65)

He was in a high school "fraternity." I think it was entirely local.

I was in school about 15 miles away at exactly the same time, but we didn't have fraternities. Never heard of them, in fact at that time.

My little went to a private school in Pennsylvannia, it was not very big, their were alot of foriegn students and it was extremly religous. They had both sororities and fraternities their, this is not big in PA at all it was the first time I ever met someone in a highschool sororoity. Very interesting.

Just out of curiousity where was that? (I'm in PA too)

My one roommate was from Meadville, PA and said they had sororities at their (public) high school....this was a while ago though so I don't know if they still exist.

On of my pledge sisters went to a private school somewhere in Eastern PA and they had HS sororities as well.

There were 2 HS sororities in Jacksonville, FL. They weren't specific to a school, but most of the members were from the 3 big private schools. I think they were shut down by the schools/parents in 91-92, and don't know if they ever came back. I know we talked about doing it for a little while in 93-94, but never did.

Will you be pretending to be in a high school fraternity as well now?

-Rudey
--I've never heard of high school fraternities in long island, let alone being "big" there.

There were no fraternities at my high school or in my town. I'd never heard of it until I saw reference to them on this board.

I had a friend from Brentwood, TN who was in a HS sorority at Brentwood High.

I love that book!

There was a previous thread about this topic and someone did mention a high school fraternity that was national (or regional). Fraternities, sororities and other secret societies were forbidden in my school district. (I grew up in the Chicago area)

There are 2 highschool sororities here - Alpha Kappa Delta and Delta Beta Sigma. ADK seems to be a breeding ground for one of the chapters on campus.

I was watching TV last week and one nite there was nothing on, so I was watching "Wings." That show from the 90's (where they all hung out at the airport) and they made a reference to a HS Sorority. Specifically, one of the cast members had been acused of doing something really stupid in HS and she jiustified it by saying, "oh the things you'll do to get into a High School sororoity." Before that I had never heard of a HS sorority or fraternity.

My step-sister is in a high school sorority called Alpha Kappa Lambda in Prince George's County, MD.

My old high school had one called Cultured Pearls Sorority.

If the school is okay with it, then it is legit.

The town where I grew up had three HS Greek organizations, two fraternities: Delta Sigma and Sigma Phi Omega, and one sorority: Delta Beta Sigma. All three were national organizations. They were not part of the high school, they were part of the town, and drew students from all three local high schools. DBS folded in the early 90s in my town, but still exists on the national level with 13 chapters. The two fraternities gradually lost members until they closed the chapters, but they also have chapters scattered throughout.

The sorority rushed in the summer before school started, and the fraternities rushed in the fall. All three had informal rush in the spring semester to bring in a few members that had been "missed" in the fall. They had adult sponsors, alums who were actively involved, and national rules. Students were not allowed to wear letters to any of the high schools.

A suburb of my hometown has had a high-school Greek system since the 1920s or ’30s that draws from one public school and two private schools. Most of the students eventually go Greek at schools like Alabama, Auburn, and Birmingham-Southern.

Why does that matter? "Legit" is in the eye of the beholder. My best response to the question is "Who cares."

Whatever an HS fraternity is, it can be nothing like a college one. Membership to an organization like that wouldn't prejudice me either way (and I would presume the same is true for my chapter's active brothers) as to a member's candidacy.

If the prospect were a good prospect though, the HS fraternity could make a nice recruiting pipeline.