<p>..</p>
<p>-When you can't scratch your nuts in the hallway without being seen on several different security cameras.</p>
<p>-When AP classes don't exist in your school
-When only five people out of the 150 in your class are even aware of the nonexistence of AP classes</p>
<p>You know you're in a public high school when...</p>
<ul>
<li>Your teacher photocopies copies of "Pride and Prejudice" for the class because the district can't afford real books.</li>
<li>Your AP US History textbooks are missing half of the 1970s because the pages fell out.</li>
<li>It'd be more likely for hell to freeze over than to find soap in the bathrooms.</li>
<li>You're never quite sure if your "Code Red" drills--the ones where you have to get away from the door and out of firing range--are drills or not.</li>
<li>There's no such thing as a true "minority" in your school.</li>
<li>Your guidance counselor still thinks the SATs are out of 1600.</li>
<li>Your classes are so full finding a box to sit on counts as a getting a good seat.</li>
<li>The biggest challenge is to figure out how to get high WHILE sitting at your desk (some of us already have accomplished that).</li>
</ul>
<p>-out of all the bathrooms in the school, you can only find one roll of tissue.</p>
<p>When...</p>
<p>Your school, which would be considered "a ghetto, run-down" school by everybody else, actually has the highest average SAT of public schools in the city...a whopping 820/1600.</p>
<p>The way your school protests a referee's call during a basketball game is by chanting "Racist! Racist! Racist!"</p>
<p>I don't go to a really large public school, but it still has a lot of people and I see my school fit with some of these facts.</p>
<ul>
<li>You meet someone new everyday.</li>
<li>If you have one principal, you have multiple vice-principals.</li>
<li>Many students have no clue what is in the office.</li>
<li>You can find someone with the same first/last/first and last name as you.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>you aren't allowed to touch (even highfive) in the hallways because so many couples were groping each other
-5 of the 7 teachers you had last year have moved on
-people scratch "b*<strong><em>, Chance Crawford is F</em></strong>*** sexy and he is all mine
into the bathroom doors
-the corresponding elementary school had a drug bust... in the SECOND grade!
-a kid in your grade has been held back 3 times once for failing, twice for missing too much school cuz he was suspended ( once for bringing porn to school, once for bringing a knife)
-you once found a finger nail in your school lunch</li>
</ul>
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Look forward to being single for a loooooong time, Cono.
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<p>Please, I'm Latino. We start dating in middle school :S</p>
<p>We have two different cultures; stop being so prude and step out of that tiny little box for a just a few seconds. Some of us appreciate beauty more, some of us appreciate intelligence more, some personality more; your preference isn't the be all end all. </p>
<p>So please, step off the high horse for a while; I promise it's better down here.</p>
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^ So True...
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<p>Glad to see not everyone is such a stuck up upper class douche bag.</p>
<p>hahhaha wow i just read all of this. ive gone to private school all my life and ive seen one fight which wasn't really even a fight just a few shoves until the teacher broke it up. everybody knows everybody. your guidance counselor actually cares about you and you hardly ever hear of drug problems. its a totally different world</p>
<p>you know that you go to a public school when:</p>
<p>-black people attend your school</p>
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Glad to see not everyone is such a stuck up upper class douche bag.
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<p>Obviously something I said struck a nerve with you if you felt the need to attack me so viciously.</p>
<p>Oh, and just a PS: you might not want to judge me before you know me. I'm not anywhere NEAR upper class. As to whether or not I'm a "douche bag"...well, I suppose that depends on your opinion.</p>
<p>Go ahead, think whatever you want of me. I really don't care too much. Just realize that calling me names is making you seem more like a "douche bag" than me.</p>
<p>HisGraceFillsMe, just ignore the ignorant douche bag that calls himself Cono, this worthless piece of garbage is not important enough to get mad over.</p>
<p>Actually Co</p>
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<p>...wow. XD That's all I have to say.</p>
<p>Yeah I can attest to the very large class sizes and occasional lazy teachers.</p>
<p>when you're principal comes into school on a motorcycle to "boost" school spirit</p>
<p>when your school ASB announces people's half-birthdays on the announcements</p>
<p>also when the school dumps $15,000 to send the basketball teams to state, yet all the clubs that qualify to compete in nationals get $500 max</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm fluent in Spanish, so...I knew that. So are you using that as an excuse or what?</p>
<p>if your school has over 3,200 students...</p>
<p>-your "best friend" in a freshmen class mysteriously disappears the next year, not to be seen again until your senior year
-it's possible for your three best friends and you to all have different lunches, even though you have block scheduling which gives you even higher chances of sharing a lunch
-it's possible to have 800 of your peers in your lunch and not know anyone due to the sheer volume of people
-despite the fact that your friends have the exact same schedule as you do, you have never shared a class
-there is a lottery for senior parking spaces
-you have different counselors every year
-your counselor knows nothing about you until it's time for a rec
-you don't know half the school clubs exist because information never disperses
-you have to have two pep rallies because you can't fit everyone in the gym at the same time</p>
<p>oh, public schools.</p>