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<li><p>(This is actually a claim to infamy) We got a little publicity when it turned out one of our former English teachers (who transferred to another high school) had sex with one of his 17 year old students. </p></li>
<li><p>We have the 2008 US National figure skating champion currently enrolled as a junior. </p></li>
<li><p>We're the 13th biggest high school in America according to USNWR (in terms of student population)</p></li>
<li><p>Our marching band went to GWB's inauguration parade back in '04</p></li>
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<p>That's pretty much it, I'm sure most of you guys have better stories.</p>
<p>The only thing I know of is that a former student is now in the NFL and his team went to the Superbowl. He comes to our school each year to sign autographs and take pictures.</p>
<p>One of our gym teachers was having a sort of affair with a student. Got into the paper. He was fired, but another school hired him. Then he was fired from that school, too.</p>
<p>No, not really. We have had some models go to our school though. My school just claims that we are a 10 and one of the best in California. I’m not sure, but I know the school is poor. My parents have to pay 300 dollars in contributions for lab fees because of the California budget crisis:/</p>
<p>Locally:
Best public school
Better than most of the private schools
We suck really hard at football</p>
<p>Nationally:
Charles Manson went here for one year
We’re high up on those UNSWR and Newsweek lists
USNWR did a profile of my school last year, so they wrote a ton of articles on it, did interviews with seniors, etc., and published it. Sort of a big deal.
Other alumni: Theda Bara, William DeHart Hubbard, Charles Guggenheim, Jim Dine, wtc.</p>
<p>A fairly well-known band and one of the stars of a popular TV show went to the public HS in my town, which would be my former school. We also had a student-teacher sex scandal (add in some beer and weed), but I’m not sure how publicized it was.</p>
<p>My current school. . .KT Tunstall, Ted Danson (Cheers), Seth MacFarlane (creator of Family Guy…one of the characters is supposedly based on our headmaster). The Wikipedia list of alumni is really long, but I haven’t heard of any of them.</p>
<p>Largest single campus in the country.
Only high school park in the country.
Our band almost always win nationals (except for these last two years, but a LONG story).
Teacher slept with a student.
Had a thrill kill here a few years back that got national attention. </p>
<p>Alum:
Jason Stollsteimer (lead singer of the Von Bondies… sang theme song from Rescue Me if you don’t know them).
Alison Schmit (Olympic bronze swimmer).
David Burtka (actor and partner of Neil Patrick Harris). </p>
<p>Also, if anyone is a college basketball/Duke fan, Wojo went to my school. </p>
<p>Brian Nichols also went to my school. Back in 2005, in Atlanta, he was on trial for rape when he escaped. He then proceeded to kill the judge presiding over his trial, a court reporter, a Sheriff’s Deputy, and later a Federal agent. A large-scale manhunt was launched in metro-Atlanta and Nichols was taken into custody 26 hours later. I’m sure people in the Atlanta area remember this.</p>
<p>Only one I can think of is beign the smallest public school in the state with a football team and making regional news(Eastern NC) for beating teams three and four times our size, some even six (we only have about 20 people on the team which is all but 10 of the male population in our school and we only have 130 people 7-12</p>