<p>My school’s famous for being incredibly small (60-65 students per grade), nerdy, filled with ridiculously rich white/Asian kids who don’t really know how to party, basically a stereotypical private school… to the extreme. Most of this stereotype is true (especially the fact that everyone’s rich, and we boast about our diversity even though there’s hardly any), though we do throw decently good parties. We also have a ton of semi-famous people, like Steve Jobs’s son (one of my best friends) and Barry Bonds’s daughter used to go here too before transferring out. Good stuff!</p>
<p>Our sports. We win states and nationals, year after year.</p>
<p>Our… Issues. We had an underground vault of oil, a serious mold problem to the point it was growing on the sprinklers, too high lead levels in the water so we couldn’t drink it, and of course, asbestos in the floors! There were people walking around with gas-mask type things while we wandered the hallways, oblivious. [Well, not really. But still! It’s the principle of the thing.]
And having a really bad football team. Like… We’re horrid. Our other teams are pretty good, though.
WAIT! Another thing. Until two years ago, we had basically no diversity. Now there’s a bunch of white/asian kids, and a few minorities. Too bad, too. I enjoyed being the token minority of the school. ;]</p>
<p>My high school is older than Calculus. It graduated the guy who made up Multivariable Calculus (J. Willard Gibbs), and the guy who made up football (Walter Camp). I think Gibbs invented thermodynamics, too, but I’m not sure. It also graduated famous and absolutely brilliant American composer Charles Ives. We got offered his entire personal library, but we said no because we’re idiots.</p>
<p>Seriously. When my school started, nobody had really figured out yet how to describe how something moves in math. They’d look at a ball rolling across a table, and think, “WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON THERE.”</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure my story has all of yours beat. They almost made a movie out of the incident
Here’s the Smoking Gun’s report:
[The</a> Smoking Gun: Archive](<a href=“The Smoking Gun: Public Documents, Mug Shots”>Lewd, Crude High School Scavenger Hunt | The Smoking Gun)
Flip through to the ‘real scavenger hunt list’</p>
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Is that even possible?</p>
<p>Our football team. That’s it.</p>
<p>We have the worst sports teams around…</p>
<p>My school is known for… nothing really. maybe “Most Mediocre Private School in Memphis?”. In its favor it’s only seven years old.</p>
<p>Tom Clancy and Consistently ranking Top 5 in Lacrosse! woot…</p>
<p>-National Mock Trial champions two years running
-In one of like three counties in the entire country to lose accreditation, hehehe</p>
<p>My school is famous for diversity. We have students from over 150 countries. M first day of school I met a kid from montenegro and one from laos.</p>
<p>Worst football team in the district.</p>
<p>We are however known for sending around 50+ ppl to UCB, 20 to UCLA, 50+ to UCSD, and 5 or so ppl every year to an Ivy or a top LAC every year.</p>
<p>7 kids stabbing a hispanic man. </p>
<p>But no, it’s not as racist as the media is making it out to be. We had problems a couple of years ago but the school had several assemblies, including Rachel’s Challenge, to help. And it did, I guess just not with these kids (although honestly nobody thought they would ever do something like this)</p>
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<li>lack of diversity (we’re like 96% white)</li>
<li>girl’s field hockey team</li>
<li>most people are either rich yuppies who live in developments or poor hicks who live in the boonies, and a small % are just middle class kids like me LOL</li>
<li>being completely and utterly mediocre</li>
<li>grade inflation</li>
<li>there was a first amendment issue this year with kids flying the confederate flag on the back of their trucks (classy, right?). the administration told them they couldn’t do that and it was a big controversy. </li>
<li>spending a ridiculous amount of money on a new football field and a markee (sp?) while neglecting to fund any of the programs in the arts.</li>
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<p>These things don’t make my high school famous… they just characterize it.</p>
<p>The latest winner from Big Brother attended my high school.
Also a radio station declared that out of all the uniformed schools our girls have the shortest skirts. Which resulted in a really annoying crack-down this year.</p>
<p>Cheating…</p>
<p>Steven brokaw is an alumni.</p>
<p>Our school is known for just about nothing.</p>
<p>Our music department is amazing, band played all over country (at a Cleaveland Cavaliers game last night), won a Grammy, and our orchestra has won first at nationals for the past 36 years or something.</p>
<p>And Nanette Lepore went there.</p>
<p>The heat on so high in the winter that you actually have to wear t-shirts, otherwise you suffocate.</p>