Some educators think peer acceptance is the key to breaking down classroom barriers

May 3, 1999
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FAIRFAX COUNTY, Virginia (CNN) -- Cliques are common in America's high schools, a melting pot where adolescents forge identities and seek acceptance of their peers.

In the aftermath of the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado -- a case where two student outcasts raged violently against other students -- educators are looking for ways to break down such barriers.

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