[ SECRET POST #3969 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3969 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What is never accurately portrayed in media?

[(Anonymous)]

School. Especially (American) high school.

Re: What is never accurately portrayed in media?

[comma_chameleon]

As someone who went to a very small high school, whenever I watched schools on TV as a teen I was like, "Why is this school like three blocks wide? Why are people not allowed to leave property to eat lunch? Are cheerleaders really a thing?!" Everything seemed so made up/stupidly ridiculous.

Re: What is never accurately portrayed in media?

[tabaqui]

We could not leave school property to eat lunch until our senior year. And a couple years after I graduated, they stopped letting kids do that at all.

It's just not a *thing* in a lot of schools, especially if most kids ride the bus and there isn't anywhere in walking distance to eat or hang out (like a park).

Re: What is never accurately portrayed in media?

[comma_chameleon]

Senior is grade 12?

Yeah I remember watching Buffy sneak off school property and there was gates and I was like ????

Because 95% of our school was bussed in because we lived in a small town so the HS serviced all the other tinier towns around it, but you never had to stay on school property during lunch or free periods. Luckily I lived right across the street so I'd go home for lunch.

Re: What is never accurately portrayed in media?

[tabaqui]

Yup, senior is grade 12.
It was considered too much of a risk, liability-wise (kids are in the care/under the protection of the school during school hours, and if they wander off and something happens....)
Plus, too many kids would just not come back.

Most of the kids in my HS were rural kids, lived way out and were bussed in, and so had no transportation and there was just...nowhere to go.

For a while, the Roach Coach came around (a food truck), but they stopped that, too.

Re: What is never accurately portrayed in media?

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, it's just a fundamentally impossible idea to accurately portray *the* American high school experience because there's no such thing.

I think there are things that do a pretty good job of capturing specific kinds of high school experiences, but a show that does a good job of capturing the reality of a high school in a wealthy suburb is going to be very different than one about a high school in a poor neighborhood.

Re: What is never accurately portrayed in media?

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much this.

Re: What is never accurately portrayed in media?

[(Anonymous)]

I know some schools have open campuses, free periods where students can wander around and do whatever, and outdoor lunchrooms, so I will cut TV schools with those things some slack even though my school wasn't like that.

However, what bugs me are when students seem to have a lot of free time at school during the school day and free run of the school. Like, they can access the AV equipment or athletic equipment or theater stage whenever they want. They all show up to school way early and apparently have no problem staying late whenever they want, even though in reality only students who have their own cars or live within walking distance can be that flexible, while the ones who have to use the school bus or catch a ride from a friend or parent may need to make special arrangements to come in early or stay late. (I had teachers who acted like it was totally easy for students to come see them before or after school and affected disbelief every single time someone said they couldn't because of the bus.)

I also don't buy students who work on the school paper doing any kind of actual investigative journalism, or anyone who doesn't work on the paper actually giving a shit about the paper and getting any useful information from it.

Finally: high school students get up in the morning and go to school in winter... and the sun is already up. LOL no.

Re: What is never accurately portrayed in media?

[(Anonymous)]

That last one really depends on where you live and how long it takes you to get to school. Sun's up between 6:30 and 7 for most of the winter here, and the bell rings between 7:30 and 8, depending on the district.