Does American high schools really looks like in the movies?

High schools are nothing like in movies. At all. There are no distinct cliques, popular kids don't ingore all the unpopular ones, no big tough guys who push all the smaller kids out of their way.harashawn

Someone has never been to Long Island ;)

I wish my HS had the socially accepted "American Highschool" look your talking about. Mine was multiple buildings, interior carpets instead of tiles, cramped hallways, and no lockers (we had to carry everything on our backs).

my school had a lot of bullying, about 1400 kids went to our school. the problem was rich kids and poor kids all went to the same school. there would be four more kids then what the room could hold and half the time we would have to share books cuz there wasnt enough for every person. if someone started flexing at you and you didnt fight them right away you would be tortured the rest of the year.. sometimes jumped.

fights went on everyday.. a lot of ambulences were called, staties were called out to do full body searches on us normally once a week. i know of ten people that died before we even graduated... most were drunk driving accidents but the rest were all shootings usually from drugs or women troubles.


how you know your school is gangster, when two guys get into a knife fight during your high school graduation ceremony (medivac hellicopters were called but no one died tho). this actually happend at my school!

incred_davis

i take it most people went to nice schools and dont have the same experiences that i did, my school was rough.. every day was like walking into a wolves den and fighting for survival.

i had three instances where the principal got punched in the face trying to step inbetween fights.. then both guys jumping the teachers and principal instead of fighting each other.

incred_davis

Yeah, the school I go to does.

Well my school in australia is nothing like the ones in the US movies and such for example we have to wear uniforms we have no lockers but i dont mind carrying around an 8 kilo bag its not that bad.

In our Middle school which is years 8-10 theres a huge socail order but not like one group is on top we have 2 major groups one group being made up of all the people who will get no where in life and get suspended atleast twice a month this group includes the sluts,smokers,druggys,criminals and overall no future types.

While the other major group is made up of all the cool in their part people who arnt the smartest of people but dont smoke, do drugs and get into fights continuosely this group is mainly more pasive and friendly and sit with each other all the time. then theres all the other groups but the 1st one i mentioned is the worst and most of the school stays clear of them and hates atleast one of them in each respect. And as for the Upper school 11-12 yrs they dont mess around as much and settel down when they get to their year.

Well our school also has barbwire fences surrounding it we have two story buildings across most of the school which are connected by over hanging walkways and such we have a huge gym a huge basketball/netball court we have a soccer oval and a Football oval and overall its alright.

[QUOTE="incred_davis"]

my school had a lot of bullying, about 1400 kids went to our school. the problem was rich kids and poor kids all went to the same school. there would be four more kids then what the room could hold and half the time we would have to share books cuz there wasnt enough for every person. if someone started flexing at you and you didnt fight them right away you would be tortured the rest of the year.. sometimes jumped.

fights went on everyday.. a lot of ambulences were called, staties were called out to do full body searches on us normally once a week. i know of ten people that died before we even graduated... most were drunk driving accidents but the rest were all shootings usually from drugs or women troubles.


how you know your school is gangster, when two guys get into a knife fight during your high school graduation ceremony (medivac hellicopters were called but no one died tho). this actually happend at my school!

gamerguru100

i take it most people went to nice schools and dont have the same experiences that i did, my school was rough.. every day was like walking into a wolves den and fighting for survival.

i had three instances where the principal got punched in the face trying to step inbetween fights.. then both guys jumping the teachers and principal instead of fighting each other.

incred_davis

I live in Canada, and my school looked like a prison and my friend's school in the same district looked like a hospital. the college I'm going to looks like the colleges in movies (maybe because U of T has been used as filming location quite many times), except its weather sucks.funsohng

that sucked, my schools looked normal and new schools look like shopping malls, but the normal looking schools are very very old. I love licing in a rich town! I hear soo many bad things about U of T

really most ppl went to school to get drugs, it was the best place to score.. and hook up with girls. ppl actually would go instead of dropping out just to get stuff.

[QUOTE="grape_of_wrath"]I've been wondering the same thing.Not about the aesthetical aspects,but more about the scoial atmosphere,as in,the whole clique-based structure(Is it really a nerds,jocks,cheerleaders type thing?) Is there really that amount of animosity between kids(stuffing people into lockers,cheerleaders ganging up on the fat girl etc.)? And if so-what do they put in the water to make everyone act like they have their heads-firmly-in-anus?gameguy6700

Students look younger now and short. It's nothing like the movies.

don't know about american ones,they do look like **** here where i live.i hope americans aren't as good as it's shown in the movies too;it makes me utterly jealous:x .

VaguelyTagged

Nope, there the same, no worries

Well my school in australia is nothing like the ones in the US movies and such for example we have to wear uniforms we have no lockers but i dont mind carrying around an 8 kilo bag its not that bad.

In our Middle school which is years 8-10 theres a huge socail order but not like one group is on top we have 2 major groups one group being made up of all the people who will get no where in life and get suspended atleast twice a month this group includes the sluts,smokers,druggys,criminals and overall no future types.

While the other major group is made up of all the cool in their part people who arnt the smartest of people but dont smoke, do drugs and get into fights continuosely this group is mainly more pasive and friendly and sit with each other all the time. then theres all the other groups but the 1st one i mentioned is the worst and most of the school stays clear of them and hates atleast one of them in each respect. And as for the Upper school 11-12 yrs they dont mess around as much and settel down when they get to their year.

Well our school also has barbwire fences surrounding it we have two story buildings across most of the school which are connected by over hanging walkways and such we have a huge gym a huge basketball/netball court we have a soccer oval and a Football oval and overall its alright.

sonofsmeagle

What state you're in? NSW only has high school (7-12)and primary (K-6), I have never heard of middle school in my area. Anyway I hate to carry a 6kg bag all day around, and only few people in my school smoke and do drugs. We have no football/soccer field, no swimming pool, no lockers, tiny gym, 2 small basket court, a decent hall and we are rated one of the lower Catholic school in NSW.

I am certain there are tons of American high school pics...on google images. Human-after-all

My high school has all of that, but my high school is somewhat big.

no cutting up the frog in science class, etc. Fuhgeddabouditt

[QUOTE="Fuhgeddabouditt"]no cutting up the frog in science class, etc. CRS98

[QUOTE="Fuhgeddabouditt"]no cutting up the frog in science class, etc. CRS98

Not my high school

Ive wondered too. I guess my Canadian high school shouldn't be much different but my school is really small (350) I think it would be weird to not know everyone by name like I do. Ive yet to see a jock in real life too. Athletes round here are at least decently smart.

depends on the school and where its at.

When I went to H.S it looked NOTHING like what I use to see on T.V as a kid. We didnt have white "jocks" stuffing people in lockers, didnt allow us to even use the lockers (well, that might explain the stuffing :P ), no over dramatic cheerleaders (they were hot though), no lunch tickets, no cutting up the frog in science class, etc. We did have a new football field but everyone was cool and when it came to prom, we just went and danced with whoever. NOTHING like in the movies/T.V the way Hollywood puts it.Fuhgeddabouditt

We have no cheerleaders, no prom. It's all boys school though. :P

not where I live, other then our gyms it looks like crap.

Yes, high schools are exactly like Glee.Mochyc

Hahaha, that'll be awful if it's actually like that, singing about the littlest things. :P

When I use to go to high school (In Canada) it wasn't really like the films. And plus all the jocks that I knew there were good people. But one thing though is that in High school films was first people fighting each other, and usually in the films or shows, the Principal is always hated by the students so much that they use pranks on them and with my school there was a Vice-Principal who was so hated there that his car would be vandalized, many students would mock him at assemblies and there would be graffiti that had a lot of insults about him. Now as for the main Principal, there was never any hate since every year we always use to get a new one and we never knew much about them.

i take it most people went to nice schools and dont have the same experiences that i did, my school was rough.. every day was like walking into a wolves den and fighting for survival.

i had three instances where the principal got punched in the face trying to step inbetween fights.. then both guys jumping the teachers and principal instead of fighting each other.

incred_davis