<p>^XD 2/3...my school is overcrowded, but I don't think we're to that extent yet.</p>
<p>Definitely, lunar_years...stupid book lady</p>
<p>-you can't go anywhere in the hallways without getting run into, tripped over, or elbowed because there are so many people
-there are police officers patrolling the halls at all times
-you can't carry around backpacks because there isn't enough space for them.
- walking through the hallway is like being in a jungle (screaming, shrieking, yelling. everywhere)</p>
<p>you get a book for english which has been taped together numerous times and which says "in memory of pages 287-295" in the front</p>
<p>You know you have it great at a public school when you: don't have an assistance principal, your principal knows everyone's name, you have to have an ID card to get in the building, you have all new textbooks, you have 16,000+ dollars worth of technology in each classroom, no one knows what a standard course is, you are going to community college college your Sophomore year (for free), and the average income level for your city is $30,000.</p>
<p>"Your school was built for A LOT LESS KIDS THAN IT HAS NOW. My school was built for about 1500, it has 3200 now :|"
Mine, too! and, therefore:
-only seniors have parking spaces
-there weren't enough lockers for everyone, so you had to share w/ a friend
- the thing about your teacher not realizing that you haven't been to class in 2 weeks is SO TRUE!
- the IB coordinator gets arrested for a DUI, but is still employed
- there's asbestos in ceiling, a sign that says "Do not enter. Could cause cancer," migrant workers wearing gas masks in your hallway to remove it, an order from the principal for classes in that building to be relocated to Cafeteria C, but your AP Euro teacher tells you that the cafeteria is too crowded, so you end up staying in the classroom that may give you cancer for a week (but don't learn anything anyway b/c all you do is complain about the smell).
- at least one of your projects has been nibbled on by rats
- there are rat traps in most of your classrooms and the teachers are either annoyed or impressed by how smart the rats are (always being able to get the food w/out getting caught)
- You lead a group of Hispanic Rotarians around your school for a day and they are terrified when the bell rings and thousands of students cram into the hallway....and then they tell you that the students screaming (in Spanish) in the hallway speak "like servants."</p>
<ul>
<li>You go out to lunch to escape the cafeteria rush and meet the entire senior class at Chipotle, then Portillos, then Subway...</li>
<li>You change teachers to frequently that when you talk to an underclassman about the teachers you had last year, they only recognize 2</li>
<li>The only times you've talked to your guidance counselor are when you needed to make schedule changes because she forgot to sign you up for English (for the 4th year running!)</li>
<li>You can't go to the practice rooms during lunch anymore because people got caught having sex there...twice</li>
<li>Ditto for the theater hallway</li>
<li>You can ignore everything the security guards say. Its the cops that have the power</li>
<li>Police dogs come to campus once a month for a "random" drug sniffing test that everyone knows the date of</li>
<li>Even the nerds know where to get drugs</li>
<li>Unless you're bleeding out of your eyes, nose, and ears, the nurse sends you back to class</li>
<li>The gymnasium is so small that the gym teachers send students out into the halls to run stairs</li>
<li>Every student, regardless of ethnicity, knows how to curse in several languages, including, but not limited to: Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Yiddish, and Indian.<br></li>
</ul>
<p>I'm sure I'll come up with more later.</p>
<p>I go to a public school, but it's really small. Like, smaller than most private schools. Therefore, none of the OP's conditions are true. There are teachers there that have taught for 35 years, and many of the students' parents had these teachers when they were in high school. There are no security guards, ID tags, search dogs, huge parking lots, or multiple principals.</p>
<p>~ grade inflation
~ avg. SAT score below 800 (M + V)
~ 5 year old text books
~ "everytime it rains...it pours"....INSIDE THE CLASSROOM
~ people smoke in the halls....and the security guards do nothing about it
~ teachers constantly complain</p>
<p>ah, the joys of public schooling.</p>
<p>I used to go to public school.
There is a school near mine with over 5,000 students!!</p>
<p>lol, this is funny. I thought my school was horrible, but apparently it's not so bad.</p>
<p>-new teachers don't last very long
-all the old ones are completely burnt out
-it may take a few weeks to get textbooks when school starts
-the cafeteria is always crowded
-somehow ALL the doors get locked (to buildings) within seconds of class starting
-the bathrooms are often locked too, but you wouldn't want to go in them anyway
-hardly anyone goes to school out of state
-people take AP classes with no intent of passing the exam
-there are multiple police officers present after school
-there is more emphasis on standardized testing than actually learning</p>
<p>-get beat by most of the private schools in sports besides basketball
-don't know half of the students and faculty
-can't walk down halls
-fight at least once a week
-free education ftw</p>
<ul>
<li>Bad Curriculum that deemphasizes academics and more so emphasizes making sure you don't do drugs</li>
</ul>
<p>-ceiling tiles fall on a daily basis
-the school has different climates for different parts of the school in the winter due to the heating system(i.e. The math department has a tropical climate, humid, warm; the science department has a dry climate, the foreign language department feels like Antartica and the History department feels normal)
-some teachers photocopy looseleaf
-there used to be dead rats lying around the school
-trying to make it to your locker at the end of the day is like a journey to the Promise Land
-you can only get sick on wednesdays and fridays because that's when the nurse from the school next door comes to visit
-You thought going to school in the dark was normal until you visited other schools</p>
<p>-you'd rather stay at your school then pay for private schools</p>
<p>-The teachers stick cold packs to the temperature sensors in the rooms so the heating actually turns on.
-Every time you see your guidance counselor they don't know who you are.
-One of the security guards deals weed after school.
-You only have to have four passing grades out of six classes to be eligible for athletics.</p>
<p>Wow, almost everything mentioned in the first post is true about my school. Not so much later on.</p>
<p>You know you're in public school when you're in all honors classes, and there are very few good looking girls in the classes (maybe 1 or 2 per class) and then you step into a regular class (for whatever reason) and every girl in there looks good.</p>
<p>And then your friends in regular classes tease you about how they get so many more girls than you, well, because they have more to choose from.</p>
<p><em>sighs</em> Intelligence is a gift and a curse.</p>
<p>^ So True...</p>
<p>oh pul-lease</p>
<p>Look forward to being single for a loooooong time, Cono.</p>