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⌈ Secret Post #2852 ⌋

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Comments

[(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)]

AYRT - Yeah, I'm not sure where that comes from honestly, if the people writing/producing those things all somehow did go to those schools, or think their schools were just different, or if it's just an easier formula? I can actually see the latter, now that I think about it - Mean Girls, for instance, would have been more on par with what I remember had it been a network of fifty girls from intertwining groups and stuff, with some of them actually being nice if you got them alone, but that would've been really hard to follow...

[(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)]

Ditto, right down to the same graduation year, anon.

At least the desks students have in media these days tend to look like the desks my schools actually had...

[(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.

[(Anonymous)]

Large high schools in the South typically aren't two-story buildings

I think it depends where you live. I live in Texas, and I don't think I've ever driven past a highschool that wasn't at least two stories (My own was three stories, if you count the basement area where the art classes were held). I live in a pretty populated area though

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much all of the big, 5A schools in the Deep South are one-story. I've seen 2-story high schools, too, but they tend to be VERY old and not very big.