• Are American highschools the same as how they are depicted in films and television?
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I like all of our sports stuff personally. Adds character and liveliness of the school day. And the whole Jock thing is played up WAY too much. Sure there are fit kids who do sports, but they're usually not the type of people that movies depict them as.
I thought those weird letter boxes on sticks were made up until an American showed me their house on google maps. I don't know why I thought they weren't real, in hindsight it's a pretty obscure thing to lie about but I was still confused.
I fucking hope not [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/iKuB6US.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=geogzm;39255538]1. School buses don't pick people up from their houses, ever, they are just normal public transport buses that stop off at stops until they reach school. 2. Primary schools (Elementary schools) never ever have detention. 3. Almost all schools require a uniform. 4. The size of the year level is usually about 150-200 people, so after about a month or so you basically know everyone. 5. There are no cafeterias. Most schools will have a canteen with some assorted stuff, but generally kids bring their lunches from home. 6. We don't have sport teams. Once a year we'll have a thing called 'interschool sport' where we spend a day versing two or three other schools in a sport. Usually footy, cricket, basketball, baseball or netball. The teams pretty much consist of the first 15 people to sign up and are never taken seriously. If you win you can go to zones and verse some other schools for a day or two later in the year. 7. Which also means there are no school mascots, cheerleaders, spirit week, school marching band (Well there are bands, but they only play at some assemblies and parent information nights and stuff. 8. No one sits at desks. Everyone sits at tables in either a big U shape, or in groups of six around the room. 9. There are barely any stereotypes or popular kids (Now I know this one is played up a bunch in media, but even still, it has to be present for it to be focused on so much.) 10. Some kids are more well liked than others, some are more renowned for being smarter, or sluttier, stuff like that. But there is not a big group of jocks, and a big group of nerds and they don't sit at opposite sides of the room. People are just people really.[/QUOTE] Somewhat rural (small city) Nevada point of view: 1. School buses for different routes, with pickups centralized around suburban areas with lots of kids or the rural routes which can be miles from their houses. 2. My primary school had detention, and it was stupidly easy to get. I got it once for playing tag with an overly aggressive kid. Everyone playing did, that is. 3. No uniforms at my high school, nor most high schools in the state aside from some of the prestigious magnet/advanced schools. 4. Our year sizes were upwards of 300 I'd say. We had nearly 2000 kids separated in 4 years. In primary, they were smaller 5. Cafeterias in every school I went to. Primary had nasty reheated garbage, middle school had a salad bar, sometimes home made food, usually the same stuff as primary. Never ate in the cafeteria during high school but it was similar to middle school. 6. Sports are considered one of the single most important things to some teachers. In my Finance class, football players would get perfect marks just for watching training tapes in lieu of doing work 7. Mascot was an Indian 8. Desks in every year. Earlier years had flippy desks that held your stuff, post-primary had lockers and thin desks 9. The stereotypes were a bit more blended. Being a small town, a large majority drink, do drugs, and have a lot of sex. However, there were distinct cliques from what I saw, including jocks. I was the kid you saw in the locker room getting slammed into lockers. 10. As before, jocks were praised despite our teams being mediocre for the past decade or so. My English teacher even showed videos of himself playing on our days with little work. I HATED high school. I went for 9th year, and then started doing it online. While I never got put in lockers per se, everyone seemed to dislike me for being smart or obnoxious or whatever sin I apparently committed younger in life. I did get slammed into lockers and hit/held down in gym, and got tackled out of line on another occasion. During the time I spent in a school club, we went on a trip and I was forced to sleep on the floor of the hotel. TL;DR: Yes, it's pretty similar to how the media portrays it here.
Schools are generally larger, the one I go to has/had about 3000 kids, our rivals have about 5000 kids at the school, and there school more or less resembles a college. Sports are HUGE, especially football. We had over 20 THOUSAND people at a local game, filled up the entire college football stadium. School pride is pretty big to, lots of shit talking between schools. There are jocks nerds ect kinda sub groups, but its natural. People hang out with similar people. There really isn't much bullying or whatever, fights are usually from the ghetto/black people. The media overdoes a lot of stuff but for the most part thats what it is. EDIT: You might get "bullied"/made of fun if your a complete fuck, but honestly you would have to try. No one makes fun of the actual retarded kids, the ones that do would get beat up ( it actually happend once lol).
21 jump street had the perfect description of modern high school 2012 wise.
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