Heh, I went to High School in Baltimore for 2 years and then went back home to Ithaca, NY. That guy wasn't kidding, if you're not wearing the right clothes, you will be ridiculed and picked at relentlessly. Especially if you got to an inner city High School in Baltimore like Southwestern High. People actually check the tags on your clothes. Don't believe it? Talk to someone who's gone to one of these types of schools and you'll find that the 'lower class' are all the ones that can't afford a crisp white tee, a fresh pair of Nikes at least every 2 or 3 months. Chicks don't talk to you, the majority of those that are popular pretty much disrepect your regularly in public, and the teachers...well there's a few that will put a stop to it but others pass it off as just 'high school growing pains'.
For anyone that's never gone to a school further up north that's centered on the latest this and that, it would sound like an after school special. Hell, Barbara Walters has had a special on it twice now, even those hacks at Inside Edition have had at least 1 story on it.
Pretty ****ing sad.