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Basically everything about American middle and high schools. I came to America for middle school (I was born in the states but grew up abroad) and was very much unprepared. Although we were also overcrowded, so I think that was some of it. (We couldn't switch seats at lunch after the first week, or eat with other grades, because they were worried about things getting out of hand.)

Same with high school, although we could at least eat wherever we wanted, except for the senior table until 12th grade. ;)

It's not something that was a misconception for me, but your high school thing reminds me of how, back when movies like 'Scream' and 'She's All That' and whatnot were popular, I'd watch them and see these girls going to school in halter tops and short skirts and midriff shirts and whatnot.

And I remember thinkkng, "Do they not have a dress code at these schools?" 'Cause no WAY would my high school have let me or other girls get away with wearing any of those outfits to school. We couldn't even wear tank tops unless we had a shirt over them.

All of this. Not only would my schools have sent you home, but my mother would have had a conniption.

My parents wouldn't have gotten upset (maybe raised an eyebrow, though, if for no other reason than my wearing an outfit like that would be so different to how I normally dress :p), but yeah, same here with the school making students go home to change.

The thing that always got me was wearing hats in school. I was so jealous because I loved hats and every show and movie had kids wearing them in school, but we weren't allowed to. I used to wonder if it was just the area I lived in that was strict about hats.

I remember that, too, yeah.

I can't remember if it was a hard and fast rule about no hats at our school, but I think at the very least they were frowned upon.

I remember getting to college, wearing hats to class, and wondering what all the fucking fuss was about in high school. Nobody cared.

I think it was a control thing, or a uniformity thing, or a formality thing...all of which are pretty flimsy reasons. Or maybe it was just "because that's the way it is/has always been" since it seems to be a pretty common rule in high schools in the US.

When my mom was in school, she told me about how girls weren't allowed to wear pants to school, regardless of the time of year it was (and she grew up in Iowa, so you can imagine how uncomfortable it'd be wearing skirts in the wintertime when you're heading off to or from school).

Fortunately, by the time she got to sixth grade, they changed that stupid rule.

The reasons we were told were: 1. They could block someone's view if you're sitting in front of them while wearing a hat and 2. Too much of a distraction because they can be taken off and played with, tossed around, grabbed off someone's head as a joke, etc.

Decent reasons in theory I guess, but they sounded like worst-case scenarios that probably weren't likely to really happen too often.

in my experience with going to an American middle and high school, and my more limited experience with the sort of media that portray those places, it's usually not a very good representation, at least not if the story is focused on the school aspect.

I was always confused/amused by American schools in movies/TV being portrayed as having open campuses where people could come and go and go home for lunch (kind of disappointing to get to high school and find out that was not an option!) or where the cafeteria had outdoor seating (I guess that's how they do it in California, where a lot of TV comes from, but here in the upper Midwest we're like "Fuck you, Great Outdoors!" for most of the year and don't do that).

I feel like at my school, you could only eat outside once you were a senior for some reason.

I think we probably technically were allowed to leave campus, but lunches were so short and anyway, the school was in the middle of nowhere... even if you drove it would've been five minutes before you got anywhere where you could do something, and with a twenty minute lunch that would mean you had to go right back. (If we're allowing time for going to your car and driving it.)

Yeah, I remember our school being a little more lax about things once you were a senior. When I was in 12th grade there was a part of the year where my classes wrapped up an hour before the official end of the school day due to the gym class schedule I had, and I was allowed to go home then if I wanted.

Weirdly, we had outside seating at my school in California, but that was literally a middle school and a high school on the same campus.

People just left campus in HS in VA because we had a 7-11 within walking distance, but you really weren't supposed to.

Sophomores and higher could go wherever they wanted for lunch so long as they were back in time for class at my school, but that place was a little weird, we called the teachers by their first names and sometimes you'd catch students and teachers outside smoking together.

This sounds suspiciously like my high school, right down tot he teachers/students smoking together. Then again, my unusual high school experience could be chalked down to having gone to an incredibly, overwhelming liberal private high school known for being eccentric.

Mine wasn't private, but yeah, it was infinitely liberal, some weird big city anomaly. Good to know it wasn't the only one, haha.

Um whaaat?? In Canada kids can definitely leave the highschool campus whenever they want. And eat lunch outside if they want. The cafeterias at mine were always too crowded so the whole school eating there wasn't an option.
Unless I'm misunderstanding this it sounds like highschools in the states are much more structured than I thought.

My California high school had an open campus right up until a year or two before I started there in the late 90s, and it wasn't exactly fenced off; I wouldn't be surprised if people still left for lunch. Now my middle school was basically a fucking prison, they've actually removed a great deal of chain link fence since I was a student, but it still looks like a jail.

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