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<p>-black people attend your school
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<p>Yeah, pretty much non-white people in general.</p>
<p>When everyone in your class hopes for a lockdown so they can get out of class.</p>
<p>When you don't have ANY student parking for your 1000+ junior and senior classes (much less the freshmen and sophomores).</p>
<p>-When you don't have enough time to eat your lunch
-When you have 8 minutes to get from one class to the other
-When there is 40 people in your honors classes
-When there are like 6 assisstant principals (or more)
-When there are like 7 guidance counselors (but 1 or 2 are decent)</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>You get 8 minutes to get to class? My school only gets 5 minutes to go to class! How lame!</p>
<p>Looks like Co</p>
<p>We have ten, but only because we have four buildings, and two of them are a third of a mile apart.</p>
<p>We only have three! Now THAT's lame.</p>
<p>-When you run into a teacher you had last year, and they don't remember your name, or even if they had you.
-When the cops practically live at your school.
-They have a series of "containment rooms"- Places that kids who have just gotten busted for fighting, drugs, etc. wait in.
-You have a drug dog at school.
-When you can ditch your morning class, and see that teacher at lunch (even TALK to that teacher), and they don't realize you weren't there.
-When you ditch a class for a long time, and you finally show up, and the teacher doesn't notice.
-When you have roll call at the beginning and end of each class period (to see who left class in the middle)
-When the janitors depend on the kids with detention to clean the bathrooms.
-When you don't know the names of/don't recognize people in your graduating class.
-When you grade each others tests, so the teachers don't have to.
-When fights are common.
-When teachers don't even bother turning in kids for smoking in the restrooms. Seriously, the janitors told us that as long as we spray febreeze and don't mark the walls/toilet seats, or ash on the floor, we can smoke in the bathroom.
-When AP classes and "smart" electives get canceled due to not enough interest (like microbio as an elective, which 4 students signed up for... including me)
-Kids wander the campus during class
-Teachers don't care if you wander into class half an hour after the bell rang.
-The bathrooms have sheets of polished metal instead of mirrors.
-The school can't pass the No Child Left Behind tests, so they bribe students with pizza and juice before the tests.
...Sorry if there are some repetitions; I didn't read all the posts...</p>
<p>LOL on the mirror thing, brieb, we have that too. I stopped looking in them because it just warps my face and makes me feel hideous.</p>
<p>And I wish we got bribed on the NCLB tests! We get shoved into an overcrowded auditorium with three proctors who really don't care if the whole room erupts into chatter ten minutes in. :/</p>
<p>I want pizza before the NCLB tests! We got graham crackers or something in elem school, though.</p>
<p>-You have a drug dog at school.
Realllly? You have one? Can you pet him? Assuming you don't have drugs on you, can you play with him? I feel deprived. I have a cat.</p>
<p>-When you ditch a class for a long time, and you finally show up, and the teacher doesn't notice.</p>
<p>Yup...</p>
<p>-When you grade each others tests, so the teachers don't have to.
Haha yesssss</p>
<p>-When you're praised if you get a 2000 on the SAT.</p>
<p>^ at my school, it is 1600+ </p>
<p>-When people think National Merit is a bad thing.
-When going to a local community college is the best option.
-When football games are more important than standardized tests.</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>Actually, considering how bad standardized testing is for the educational system, local football games actually may be a better thing!</p>
<p>@optimization: Yep we have one. No, we can't even touch him or whistle at him or anything. They guy he walks around with is a jerk.</p>
<p>Also, where the GCs ENCOURAGE you to spend two years at the community college, then transfer to the state u. When mine saw my list of colleges, she said, "Oh! George Washington! That's the one in Washington, right?" I said yes. She exclaims, "I love Washington so much! And did you know we're sending a student right next door to you, to U. of Washington?" I just smiled and shook my head.</p>
<p>Well, luckily my school is selective (still public), and all the teachers and stuff surprisingly care. I can say 99% of this stuff was true for my previous HS (freshmen year)..
But the school I got to now is over 80 years old
Asbestos in ceiling tiles (that occasionally fall, but it's "alright, because the asbestos is INSIDE them"
The 4th floor is closed because there is too much asbestos
The schools has lead paints chips that are now peeling
When Air conditioning was installed, the school began to fall apart </p>
<p>This thread is great, because so much of the stuff is true</p>
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Asbestos in ceiling tiles (that occasionally fall, but it's "alright, because the asbestos is INSIDE them"
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<p>We have particles of asbestos coming up from the floor in one of our older buildings.</p>
<p>Our school is full of asbestos too! Except ours is only 30 years old and is completely uninhabitable already... My friend on stage crew was up in the ceiling working on lights when a chunk of asbestos just plunked down next to him. The accrediting board's report about our school basically says something like, "Great teachers, great kids, abysmal facilities."</p>
<p>-if you are a kid who does well in school the hall monitors smile at you and wish you a nice day, and then jump on the kid behind you asking to see his hall pass</p>
<p>-the week of signing up for AP exams, the principal/counselor comes into every AP class to tell you to sign up for them [because the school makes money and it looks good for them]...and your teacher stands behind them and makes funny faces because they are annoyed that they are wasting precious class time..</p>
<p>Ooh, I've just remembered one.</p>
<p>-When you turn in a research paper before winter break and end up staying after on the last day of school, watching the teacher grade it on the spot. o.O</p>