<p>I was wondering how people at suburban highs experience with school is different from a large city. Could you tell me how your experience is different/ similar to mine.</p>
<p>Okay, so I go to a good Chicago magnet high. I </p>
<p>Live in an area that isn’t skyscraper urban, but a neighborhood. I walk to the el (subway) stop, and then ride for about 40 minutes, then walk 3 minutes to school. My school is very diverse, and almost noone has cars. I’m lucky because a lot of kids have to transfer trains or buses. Almost everyone takes public transport.
After school, football, soccer, xc, etc practice at the park next to the school. It’s not that big, two blocks long, Narrow, and shared with an elementary school.
After school, I take the train home again, which sucks cuz after 5 it’s dark and theres almost nobody for the first couple stops, then you pass downtown and sooo many people get on like everyone is smushed.
The social life is good though, not much bullying or cliques. No or very few gang members because its a test in school. To meet friends, we usually go downtown and there’s more freedom and stuff to do.
So whats it like in the suburbs?</p>
<p>My high school is rural and has about 600 students. You can either take the school bus or drive there. Walking isn’t allowed because there aren’t any sidewalks. People are friendly, unambitious, poor, and almost always white. We have a mall, but most of the stores have shut down, so nowadays it’s more of a long tunnel leading to a K-Mart. My parents live in a “village” with a population lower than my SAT score, but there are some slightly larger towns nearby. During the week I stay with my cousins and take all my classes at an urban university eighty miles away, so I take public transportation and stuff…it’s really different. </p>
<p>I live in the suburbs of southern California. My school has about 3600 students. It is surrounded by large houses that rich people live in, and farther away there is a more rural part of the city and I’d say 1/12 of our students come from there. My school is pretty academic but the students don’t seem very academic. There’s only two buses(which I take) but they are each half filled by the high schoolers and half filled by the middle schoolers at the middle school. I think there are lots of mean people at my school and I don’t really like it. Nobody seems that friendly and there’s a lot of rich people. Okay, bye.</p>
<p>Where I live is kind of suburban, but I live on the east side of a pretty large city that is “inner city” by comparison to the west. But then again, the high school to the west is filled with a bunch of hicks, so what do they know?</p>
<p>There are some really good parts of where I live, but no one’s rich (except one, I think, and everyone hates her because she just wastes her parents money on booze and has gotten kicked out of two private schools). I live in probably in one of the less-nice areas and it’s still your typical New England street. There are probably 10 or so school buses that us to and from school since my city is big despite being more suburban. There’s about 1300 students in my high school (there are 2 in my city, the other one is probably a bit bigger). We don’t have a track or field, during early fall/spring we have to take a bus to a nearby field for gym. It’s annoying because I play two sports (well, one is track) and the field is a mile walk. We don’t have any subways here, just public transportation which I sometimes take after practice if the local library is closed that day. </p>
<p>Some people at my school are “ghetto”, some are hipsters, and a lot are just Forever 21/Wetseal wearers that act pretty normal. Some are shallow as hell, others are, again, pretty normal. We have about 5 fights in the cafeteria every year, and since lunches/breakfasts are poorly supervised, it’s really awesome. It’s just two stupid people (usually girls) fighting over stupid things (usually boys), and then they get suspended if they’re caught. Breaks up the monotony a bit.</p>
<p>I think my school is very normal. I generally dislike it, because of its blandness, but we have basically no bullies–even though we have plenty of players, potheads, attention whores, and plain whores (male and female). Our rival school has a really bad bully problem, someone even posted about it on Youtube (even though she had been the worst bully our school had seen in a while, before she went to the other and got bullied–LOL karma’s a ■■■■■).</p>
<p>Academically, we don’t do that great but there’s a really huge difference between the bottom kids and the top students. We consistently get our top ten into near-Ivy schools like Brown, Stanford, and Northeastern–pretty good for a poorly funded, not-so-wealthy school–yet over half of our juniors last year didn’t pass our state’s standard exam required to graduate :S</p>
<p>I can’t say we’re really suburban vs city-like, but we’re DEFINITELY NOT rural. Thank God (no offense to anyone who lives in a rural area).</p>