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⌈ Secret Post #2852 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

01. http://i.imgur.com/7Jc7a8N.png

[(Anonymous)]

Try stuff from the UK, Australia, or NZ? I think uniforms are more of a standard thing, and not just for their equivalent of private schools there.

[(Anonymous)]

I went to an Orthodox Jewish school and it seems largely similar, in uniforms and single-sex classes. I would at the very least like to see more stories about girls interacting in an environment where there are no boys around. I honestly believe it does us better.

(Although tbf in that situation you also see the worst of girls. My friend recently found out she was expecting a boy and was mildly disappointed and I thought for a second about the joys of raising little girls. WE COULD SUCH ASSHOLES. Especially with no boys around to pretend to be sweet in front of. Plus we were girls, so we did psychological warfare and did it where the teachers didn't catch it. I really wish that a lot of our arguments could have just resolved in a fistfight the way it did with the boys.)

[cushlamochree]

Eh. I had a similar kind of education, and while it would have been cool, I can't say it ever bothered me much. Yeah, it was definitely strange how there was so little resemblance between my experience and anything I saw on screen, but then again I never fought Godzilla either.

[kallanda_lee]

It's funny, because when I was younger I wanted exactly the opposite of what reminded me of my school. I even swore I'd ritually burn my uniform when I'd get out - I was very dramatic back then (also I never did).

It's funny, as I might enjoy it now, in the way that you can get a strange sense of nostalgia even for things that weren't that great at the time.

[(Anonymous)]

I was the same! I swore to burn my uniform. I ended up cutting it to shreds and using it for a zombie schoolgirl Halloween costume. :)

[(Anonymous)]

I was going to burn my uniform too, but then I learned I could get $40 selling it back to the school so I went for the cash instead. Getting paid to never wear it again was pretty cathartic, it turned out.

[(Anonymous)]

Gilmore Girls.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

That came out a little past my childhood, but even if it hadn't I don't think it would have been quite the same. I wanted a private school experience that was treated as normal, not a stereotypically exclusive TV private school for rich kids and geniuses on scholarship that the protagonist only went to because of special circumstances.

[(Anonymous)]

I went to a big high school that was nothing like the ones you see in movies. In the movies they all have the same lunch (at a big school like mine? LOL no), the same classes (nope - which made things really lonely if you had only two or three good friends, because the odds of being in the same class were slim), and cliques... I don't know if my school was just weird, but there wasn't really one popular clique of 3-5 girls who ruled everything. It was more whether or not you fit in more than one clique.

... tl;dr short, no worries OP, they get all high schools wrong. Unless, again, my high school was just weird?

[sarillia]

I always find that popular clique thing really weird too. We just had lots of groups of friends with different interests. Some of those groups were bigger than others and of course there were problems between some students, but there was no group of popular people who were somehow popular and hated for being assholes at the same time who bullied all the losers or whatever.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, big, public high schools in tv and movies are never likje my big, public high school was.

Fictional high schools have outdoor cafeteras or lots of people eat lunch outide - where I grew up, it was either too cold or too hot/humid most of the school year fir this to be considered an option.

Fictional high schools have open campuses. At mine, you coudn't leave during the day without a note or parent to sign you out. You couldn't leave for lunch - you had to bring it or buy it in the cafeteria.

At fictional high schools, everyone seems to walk to and from school and do not need a set plan as to how they would get home or have any problem staying after school. I lived way too far away to walk and didn't have a car (and none if my friends did either, at first) so I had to take the bus and always be sure I didn't dawdle on the way out because if I missed the bus home, I'd either have to call my mom at work (on pay phone) to come get me or else walk a mile, catch a city bus for $1.50, then walk another mile and hope I beat my mother home so she wouldn't worry (like most teens in the mid-90s, I did not have cell phone so there was no way to let her know what was up if I didn't have change for both the bus and the phone call).

Students at fictionl high schools appear to have unfettered access to all library materials, A/V equipment, photocopiers, athletic gear, etc. Getting access to some video editing equipment for a class project was hard work and involved arranging to stay after school in a dark, little room in the basement.

Students at fictional high schools have free periods and lots of time to just chat or get up to weird shenanigans. Free periods did not exist at my school and my friends and I only had a few minutes at the start of the day and lunch (if we had the same lunch period, which did not happen every semester).

[(Anonymous)]

Woah wtf, I KNOW I didn't write this, but this sounds exactly like how I've described my own HS for YEARS (I graduated in 2005). Woah.

[(Anonymous)]

I went to a pretty large high school and everyone would've been in different lunches depending on their classes, but there definitely was the popular clique.

Though when I see two-story high schools, that is just NOT the norm for me. (Not surprising, since most high school movies are typically shot at colleges.) Large high schools in the South typically aren't two-story buildings.

[brooms]

maybe some girls? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01gkh5q

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in the same boat. I went to a little local school with uniforms, which is normal here in the UK.

I just avoid all dramas set in those huge American campus high schools since I know I won't relate to it.

Try UK dramas, I suppose? Wolfblood is the best recent example I can think of offhand for the UK. That has werewolves as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfblood

For Australian school-based drama, how about Dead Gorgeous? That was good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Gorgeous

[(Anonymous)]

Those dramas set in huge American campus high schools don't actually reflect life in huge American campus high schools (source: I attended a huge American campus high school).

Really, no one can relate to them. I think they exist only as wish fulfillment.

[mizz_destiny]

Hey OP, try Strange Days at Blake Holsey High. It MIGHT fit you needs. It is a few years old at this point though :(

[(Anonymous)]

I get so excited on the rare occasion that this show is mentioned.

[raspberryrain]

This is a classic example of SoCalization. (warning: tvtropes link)

Public school architecture. Instead of a single large school building, most California schools use a "campus" design with several structures (often single story) surrounding a courtyard, to take advantage of the generally good weather during the autumn and winter months (note: Obviously, schools located at higher altitudes don't.) The courtyard is usually where lockers and lunch tables are located. Unless it's explicitly set in the warmer parts of California (or another area with a mild climate), a movie or TV show about high school will look really odd to most people if it shows the characters congregating outdoors in a courtyard or walking to class through a covered walkway.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. I can confirm that this is really what SoCal schools are like. I had no idea schools had covered walkways in most of America because it was literally nothing I'd ever experienced.
Then again, I also had no idea you didn't have to pay for your books in public school and that some schools allowed tank tops (my Catholic school NEVER allowed tank tops, even on special jeans days).

[(Anonymous)]

Mmmmm...Catholic schoolgirls...

[(Anonymous)]

Because the media isn't exactly a mirror, I want to ask the Americans here if it really that uncommon to have a school uniform?

I live in Australia and even when I was in high school - or secondary college - I didn't know of any schools that didn't have one.

[(Anonymous)]

My general sense is that nearly all public schools (that is, publicly funded, tuition-free, open to all students) will have no dress code, while some private schools (that is, fee-charging, not run by the government) have uniforms, some have dress codes, and some don't have a dress code.

Since the majority of students are educated in public schools, not having a dress code is more or less the norm.

OP thanks everyone for the recs

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't think I'd get any. What a nice surprise!