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high school in the united states/ arizona

[(Anonymous)]

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Re: high school in the united states/ arizona

[(Anonymous)]

How true are the movie depictions of high school?

Re: high school in the united states/ arizona

[(Anonymous)]

Not anon you replied to, but from my US high school experience - not true at all.

Re: high school in the united states/ arizona

[(Anonymous)]

DA

This. Movie high schools are almost a stereotype unto themselves these days.

Re: high school in the united states/ arizona

[(Anonymous)]

Like, no way! *Throws slushies and huffs off*

... I couldn't resist.

Re: high school in the united states/ arizona

[(Anonymous)]

Based on my particular experiences and other friends of mine through the country, I'd say movie portrayals are pretty inaccurate. A lot less clique-, at least not like in the movies. There are stoners and goth kids and preppy kids, nerds, and theater kids, but it's pretty common for people to bounce around in multiple social circles.
I remember a foreign exchange student had watched Mean Girls her first week here. She was very concerned until we reassured her that was not a realistic portrayal of high school life.

Re: high school in the united states/ arizona

[(Anonymous)]

I've sometimes wondered if the clique thing is a small school thing? My school was so huge that you really couldn't have cliques, because you'd have no one to each lunch with or talk to in class if you were too selective. Whereas at a small school, I imagine it's easier for people to break into cliques. I did go to a small elementary school, and there was some of that, but elementary school's a little different in that regard.

Re: high school in the united states/ arizona

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't say it's the same for small high schools either (or at least not in my experience). I went to a very small one (300 students total, from grade school to high school) and at that point, there's so few people that maintaining cliques is kind of pointless. there's friend groups, but the level of familiarity prevents isolation, I guess.

Yeah, I was in for a shock when I moved back

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't always live in America, though I was born here, and wow did books and Hollywood mislead me. I expected there to be one school per town (to be fair, that's pretty common in some areas), I expected glasses to be a social killer (they weren't, thank God for me when I got them), and I was surprised when not all the cheerleaders were stick thin and bitchy, and the popular girls were also smart. At least many of them.

So, yeah. They're not true at all, although some schools are probably closer to Hollywood than others.

Re: Yeah, I was in for a shock when I moved back

[(Anonymous)]

In my area there is only one school per town, and there is no choice to which school you go to. There was also no choices in what classes to take. The only choice was during senior year you could choose to take the 4th year science or not to. I was so confused by high schools on TV where people would get lost, or not know what classes to choose, or which school to go to. So yeah, gotta agree that High Schools, and schools in general, on TV is full of lies.

Re: Yeah, I was in for a shock when I moved back

[(Anonymous)]

We had some choices in school, but they were based on credits and tracks, like at a university. (Not exactly the same thing, since we didn't have a "major," just specific fields of study.) So I had to take some fine arts credits and some social studies courses, as that was my track, plus the general ed stuff. You could leave early senior year, but only if you were on a work waiver or taking college courses.

Also, Hollywood rarely mentions AP classes and SAT's! I was kind of surprised when Modern Family had Alex in them. But then again, I think it's only been in the past couple of years that AP has been as emphasized - when I was in school ten years ago, there were AP classes, but they were just what the super smart kids took. The SAT was definitely just as important, though.

Re: high school in the united states/ arizona

[forgottenjester]

None of them as far as I can tell. Also, so many inside schools in the warmer states is weird.

Re: high school in the united states/ arizona

[(Anonymous)]

"Inside schools"? Do you...not have class inside where you live or...?

Re: high school in the united states/ arizona

[forgottenjester]

An inside school is one where they have a cafeteria inside. The hallways to go to each class are inside. Everything but the field is inside. Rainy days mean nothing.

An outside school has the cafeteria outside if it has a proper cafeteria at all. There are no hallways. You go outside to get to each classroom. Everything is outside except the office and the classrooms. Rainy days mean you get to eat inside a classroom, the library, or the gym if you have one and it is the coolest shit.

(As for having classes outside... I've only had those when testing rockets or when there was a power outage.)

Re: high school in the united states/ arizona

[(Anonymous)]

I live in a growing metropolitan area and it makes me sad- all the newer high schools are indoors. I took a couple of classes in one over the summer and it was strange. Much nicer than my (outdoor) school, but weirdly confining and uncomfortablly prison-like. I got lost so many times as all the halls looked the same. I don't know why indoor schools are becoming such a big thing when we have such mild weather here.

Re: high school in the united states/ arizona

[(Anonymous)]

Another thing Hollywood never seems to depict - kids having, you know, jobs and after school activities and stuff. My friends and I never had an afterschool hang out, because when would we have had time?!

Re: high school in the united states/ arizona

[(Anonymous)]

so not true. At least, not according to this Midwesterner.

-People are real teenagers, so they don't look like well groomed, styled and dressed adults with curves and perfect bodies
-No one dresses so nicely. This might be the midwesterner in me, but people were pretty lazy at my school and some people might put more work into their appearance, but when it's freezing most of the year, most people wear jeans or sweatpants.
-My school was relatively big but not huge, but I don't think we had a concept of "popularity." We kind of had the "jocks" but because I took all advanced level courses I never met them nor thought of them as socially superior to me (except the ones who were athletic and smart, therefore, not the stereotype). But yeah, people just hang out with their groups of friends. Might be tied to a particular interest, might not be. I think popularity is more of a thing at small schools, at big schools you just don't hang out with people you don't like.
-Cheerleaders were not really cool at my school. Some were nice enough, but they weren't particularly sexy or "slutty". It was just an extracurricular like anything else. Then again, at my school, what was cool was theater (huge program) and people in that area were a big deal. Well, that and hockey, but you can't expect anything else in Minnesota. lol

Re: high school in the united states/ arizona

[(Anonymous)]

-No one dresses so nicely. This might be the midwesterner in me, but people were pretty lazy at my school and some people might put more work into their appearance, but when it's freezing most of the year, most people wear jeans or sweatpants.

It was sort of a mix and match at my school - I was in high school in the early 2000s, so a lot of kids were still into the whole grunge thing, and of course not everyone could afford the latest fashion. But you also had a lot of kids who would come in looking like they were about to go on a date. But it wasn't necessarily a mark of how popular you were; when my friend dressed nicely, it just meant she was single and ready to date again.

Popularity at my school was more how many circles you were part of than what circle you were part of, honestly, and it didn't necessarily mean snobbery. Plus, looking back I think those of us who tried to be "individuals" and refused to join any group were just as snobby in our way. I have some specifically cringeworthy memories about that. :/

Re: high school in the united states/ arizona

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP

Yes,but I think the degree to which it's a big deal varies with where you are. Like, where I went to high school it was a big deal because you had a chance of being able to get out of taking 4 of your finals, and you could have lunch off campus. If we hadn't been able to do those things it wouldn't have mattered much beyond "Hells yeah, college next year!"

As for prom, yes. But not to the extent movies/tv-shows portray. Like it's kind of a right of passage [sort of] plus it's a chance to have a huge party [that you don't have to clean up after] in your last year of high school - but at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter who wins Prom Queen or any of that stuff.

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[(Anonymous)]

not op but

Prom is a pretty big deal - really big for some, and some people don't care. And why not? Usually, proms have a relatively big budget for pretty decorations and whatnot, and it's an excuse - one of the only excuses, really - to dress up in beautiful dresses.

My school was a little different because the Homecoming dance (fall, beginning of the school year) was also formal. Usually it's informal, but at ours, people still went out and bought fancy dresses, some had hair and makeup done, etc. Homecoming is a dance that all four years of high school can go to, but prom is limited to juniors and seniors.

That being said, in my experience, hardly anyone does romantic dancing like in the movies. Some couples might slow dance (press against each other and kind of move their feet) but it's mostly solo dancing or goofing off with friends.

Re: high school in the united states/ arizona

[(Anonymous)]

also - of course being a senior is a big deal, because it means you are almost free. :P Tied to the fact that you might turn 18 and therefore are a legal adult...

Re: high school in the united states/ arizona

[(Anonymous)]

OP

Pretty much what the others have said. I think prom is really more of a girl thing- a chance to dress up and go on a fancy date/girls' night out or whatever. I think in a weird, circular way, the reason prom is a big deal is because all the movies make it a big deal so sometimes people have these expectations for it.

Re: high school in the united states/ arizona

[greenvelvetcake]

Being a senior was a big deal in my high school. At that age, you could drive, and since I went to a private (read: wealthy) school, most seniors had cars. There was a lot of freedom in not having to take the bus or wait for your parents to drive you around. It was also a lot more of a relaxed atmosphere in the spring, as most people got their college acceptance letters by winter break. The only people who cared enough about their grades without letting them go too bad were the people competing for the top rankings.

Prom was important in the way that it was a big, fancy, expensive function, but no one treated it like the end-all, be-all like a lot of movies tend to.

Man, senior year was awesome.