<p>It taught me many life lessons. Ah...to remember a time when Lindsay Lohan was not bulimic.</p>
<p>"You're going to want to take off your clothes, and touch each other. But if you do touch each other, you will get Chlamydia... and die."</p>
<p>"And on the third day, God created the Remington bolt-action rifle, so that Man could fight the dinosaurs. And the homosexuals." </p>
<p>"Somebody wrote in that book that I'm lying about being a virgin because I use super jumbo tampons... but I can't help it if I've got a heavy flow and a wide set vagina!"</p>
<p>"Yo Yo Yo! All you sucka MCs ain't got nothin' on me! From my grades, to my lines you can't touch Kevin G! I'm a mathlete, so nerd is inferred, but forget what you heard I'm like James Bond the third, sh-sh-sh-shaken not stirred - I'm Kevin Gnapoor! The G's silent when I sneak through your door. And make love to your woman on the bathroom floor. I don't play it like Shaggy, you'll know it was me. Cause the next time you see her she'll be like, OOH! KEVIN G!"</p>
<p>"And on the third day, God created the Remington bolt-action rifle, so that Man could fight the dinosaurs... and the homosexuals".</p>
<p>"Somebody wrote in that book that i'm lying about being a virgin because i use super jumbo tampons... but i can't help it if i've got a heavy flow and a wide set vagina!"</p>
<p>ahahahahaha... few of the funniest lines i've ever heard.</p>
<p>so from the answers i got, most of the schools aren't all that...uh... mean girl-y like? if it's true, then that's a relief, cause if ever dad gets his VISA, he's going to Canada... pulling me along.</p>
<p>may i ask another question? to all the CCers who attend these kinds of schools (schools like what's in the movie... or has a gist of it), how do you cope with it?</p>
<p>"However, in some high schools-mainly ones where few or none go to college, the school is focused entirely on "hunk-male" sports (football, baseball, wrestling, basketball, and ice hockey) and pretty women (the epitome of a high school girl = cheerleader for one of the teams)"</p>
<p>I go to one of these highschools... </p>
<p>"may i ask another question? to all the CCers who attend these kinds of schools (schools like what's in the movie... or has a gist of it), how do you cope with it?"</p>
<p>Well, I would just not get involved with them. Plus most of these kids tend not to be in any of my classes and are usually in the regular classes.</p>
<p>High school is definetly nothing like the Hollywood movies! </p>
<p>At my school, there is some group definition - obviously there are IB kids, regular kids, music kids, jocks, drama nerds, etc. The cool thing is that you could probably hang out with anybody if you wanted to. It's obviously easier to be with people who are in your classes and activities, but there isn't any inter-group hate whatsoever. Nobody is overly cliquey and everybody is involved in at least something.</p>
<p>I have this friend who was unfortunate to get regular english (because his schedule didn't allow him to take AP), and he said that it was a different world from the AP classes.</p>
<p>If non-Americans are using films and television as their barometer for the American high school experience, does that mean I can use foreign films to understand what their countries are like?</p>
<p>I get the feeling I'd be told I'm just some arrogant American if I did so...</p>
<p>actually, not just films and television. my cousin attends a school in west virginia, and she told of how she was at the receiving end of some racial bullying. then, while researching in the Internet, i came across a site with hundreds of stories from people like me, half or so of it dictating the same.</p>
<p>although i know its not a strong base, i got curious, that's all. and no, you don't sound arrogant. sorry if i got you indignant or something. :D</p>
<p>Keep in mind that it also depends on where in the US you are. From what I hear, the mid-atlantic and west coast (interestingly enough, most CC'ers are from these general areas) have different atmospheres - ethnically speaking - than the midwest and the south.</p>
<p>Mean Girls is actually pretty accurate. But it depends what school you go to. If you do go to a really big public school then that attitude will be there. Depends on the school...I go to a great private school that is very accepting. Like my previous private school, which was on the opposite side of the country :)</p>
<p>Yeah I go to high school in the South. It's a private school and I think it's great. I also spent 14 years in a California private school that was 70% Asian. Different...but both rock. You can find friends anywhere.</p>
<p>I must agree that to some extent the "Mean Girls" thing does exist. At my school, we definitely do have the "mean girl" clique. However, although they are preppy and all that stuff, they are NOT mean to the other kids. This just has to do with the individual personalities of the girls in a school that make up that clique. I just so happen to be very very good friends with a lot of the girls in that clique, but oddly enough I don't get along with the "popular" guys very well. The guys at our school are more like the mean girls than our girls ever were, haha. Oh well, maybe its because when I quit basketball I told them all a few choice words. </p>
<p>Regardless, from what I have experienced, the only way you could see the "mean girl" clique at my school to truly be mean is that there is such an undeserving hatred towards these girls at my school that they don't tend to talk to people they don't know. Its not because they think they're better than anybody, its because they are afraid it'll just be someone else to say stuff about them.</p>
<p>I think Mean Girls is very, if not entirely, accurate. Well, actually, the girls usually get away with it.</p>
<p>That demographic is definitely present...it's just so easy to ignore (for me). The IB program at my school is pretty self-contained so I see the "regular" kids very rarely. But when I do, it's pretty horrifying. A lot of people get sucked in - I can think of one incident in particular earlier this year that would fit right in with that movie. You'd think it was a deleted scene or sub-plot something.</p>
<p>Well, we did have that one incident last year when a senior girl ripped the shirt of another girl and threw her lunch in her face, then called her a psycho b****... that's pretty Mean Girls-eque, I think, but that sort of drama is unusual.</p>
<p>I go to a tiny private IB school with <250 students. My grade has two main groups: the people who party and the people who don't. With 50 students in the grade, smaller cliques would just be suffocating.</p>
<p>'Mean Girls' reminds me of how the girls in my high school acted in the fourth grade. Now, in senior high, all the girls that still try to act like that are basically outcasts. Victory goes to the nice people! But seriously...kids (at least at my school) grow out of that kind of stupidity WAY before high school.</p>