The wise teacher will emphasize the school spirit, or even class spirit,
in dealing with situations involving the clique evil. Try to make the
snobbish ones forget their exclusiveness in their interest in athletics
or other contests in which the _best_ man or team wins and in which the
_whole_ school is the party to gain or lose by the outcome.
As a last resort, the parents of the ringleaders in the cliques should
be appealed to, to make their offspring see the folly and the falseness
of the standards they are setting up, for snobbish children have
generally been more or less encouraged in their snobbish tendencies at
home.