<p>...and I'm not talking about academics here.</p>
<p>Like my school, for example, is obsessed with Bhangra (a kind of indian dancing). Like the people on bhangra are practically celebrities. It's pretty hard to make the team, there's 6 girls and 6 guys, and our school cheers them on like crazy whenever they perform. </p>
<p>Practically half the school tries out for Bhangra...it's pretty weird.</p>
<p>Haha and not all the people on the team are indian...which is funny. Especially since there aren't even that many indian people in our school...more than average, i guess, but not an overwhelming amount.</p>
<p>hahahaha, if you know what Bhangra is and then you imagine a entire school thats obsessed with it you get like a crazy school! tako where is this place? And there are some nonindians on the team! hahaha</p>
<p>We have a female choir craze; the most popular girls in the school are always the best singers. However, their praise is most definitely deserved.</p>
<p>My school's pretty normal. My grade can be a bit eccentric, but the school as a whole is normal. Stereotypically the seniors are lazy and uninvolved. Juniors are insane and very athletic. Sophomores are preppy and whorish. Freshman are... just kinda there.</p>
<p>Here we have none of the honor societies or community service enthusiasts mentioned on this foru, even though per the Wall Street Journal we are considered one of the best schools in the country.</p>
<p>mangogo must be a California resident. Actually, going to a high school with a beach right in front (such as those in Okinawa) or on a mountaintop (Miyake-jima) would be cool, particuarly if all the rooms had windows facing out to sea.</p>
<p>The only thing I can think of that is really unique is that the school is very supportive of everything the students do. During all of the protests, the school asked all of the organizers to come to a meeting & they thought about a whole bunch of different ways to protest, other than walking out.</p>
<p>Our library has table cubicles shaped like swastikas. We hang portraits of every senior class in our main hall (back from like 1914), and now that they've run out of room, they've started hanging them in the Humanities building. We have a golf course on campus (currently being redone). Um...the chess club is currently the largest club on campus. We have the #3 lacrosse team in the nation. </p>
<p>We have a thing called "neck taking" that I'm sure is unique to our school. It was started during my sophomore year by a guy in my class (who interesting enough is going to Dartmouth next year), and really caught on last year and this year. It started as a way to hurt people with bad neck sunburn. It consists of putting your hand/finger and then pulling hard while pushing down...if they have a sunburn there, it's extremely painful...people just do it to everyone now, and even without a sunburn it can hurt. "Gimme that neck!" is the battle cry for that. Yeah, I know, random.</p>
<p>some of my friends started doing this arm thing called the bone saw that they got from an inside joke based on a very perverted sexual position at basketball games, and now the whole school does it. It's so strange to see all the kids and the teachers shouting "bonesaw".... ::shudder::.</p>
<p>Juniors and seniors can take classes at Princeton University if they meet certain requirements. But about 20 other high schools in New Jersey have the same thing.</p>
<p>Our middle school has won first place at Science Olympiad nationals like two or three times in a row now. And counting.</p>
<p>^ dude, what school do you go to? My family's moving to Jersey this summer, and i think you go where my sister's going. We visited this summer... is it that school that looks like a castle, perhaps?</p>
<p>edit: haha i just realized how unintelligent i sound. oh well.</p>
<p>ihateCA just reminded me. We have a ton of internationals boarding at our school. One Spaniard, two Koreans, a Saudi Arabian, a guy from Panama, and a couple Canadians (hockey players of course) in my grade. We have plenty more Koreans, a few more South Americans, and one Taiwanese (and I'm sure we have others) among the non-seniors , and we used to have a Russian and a Vietnamese kid. The reason we get such long vacations is to allow them time to fly home and spend time with their families.</p>
<p>Southwest</a> Dekalb High School in Georgia has no windows, at least on one side of the school, to prevent overheating by the sun, making it look like a prison.</p>
<p>On the other hand, a school that looks great on the outside and even has a roof-top swimming pool but had 1,089 floor failures from inadequate concrete rebar: Tokyo</a> Metropolitan Harumisogo Senior High School</p>
