@mcat2 I first heard of the term “queen bee” in Rosalind Wiseman’s book Queen Bees and Wannabees, a book about the social lives of adolescent girls in America. This book became the basis for the movie Mean Girls. Basically the queen bee is the charismatic leader of a clique and decides who is “in” or “out” of the clique. Unlike your experience, the queen bees that I knew in high school were very well liked by teachers and staff and did very well academically.