<p>my favorite is when kids throw pencils into the asbestos-filled ceiling tiles so that it rains carcinogens on the entire class</p>
<p>-someone gets shot
-b/c of behavior you have hall sweeps (get detention if your in the hall after the bell rings)-->gets cancelled b/c they had 1/3 of the school
-drug dog comes weekly-->multiple busts
-fights don't even phase anyone anymore
-homeroom teacher says freshman year "look to the left and right of you, chances are that they will be gone by senior year" and its true.
-your one of the few people without a kid
-multiple buildings and cafeterias
-most kids ride the bus to school or they fit 10 people into 1 small car
-get told, sorry but our senior english classes are full--looks like you take AP or don't graduate
-don't get to take books home--must share with the person next to you
-metal detectors by all entrys
-I'm a B+ student and in top 20% of class
-whole family making $30,000+ is considered rich</p>
<p>-when you have to pass through metal detectors to get inside the school
-your bio teacher is dating your english teacher
-everyone hates you because you set the curve
-You still have old lockers aligned on the walls</p>
<ul>
<li>Your Drama program is 100 times better than any other school in the area, even the prep school in town, and yet you still complain about the prep school "competing" with your shows.</li>
<li>You have spent days in your AP English class talking about lipstick, shampoo, and bras instead of literature.</li>
<li>Even though your building is less than a year old, the ceiling tiles are still falling down and there are still mysterious urine stains on the ceiling, even on the top floor.</li>
<li>You aren't allowed to use the all-new, $20,000, "always available" Fitness Center because the sports teams always have it booked.</li>
<li>Your AP Euro class has watched 3 movies, had the plot of a 4-opera series described in detail, and has read a 20-page poem aloud in class, and yet you are still "on schedule."</li>
<li>Your AP Bio teacher--who is admittedly teaching the course for the first time--usually answers your questions with "I dunno, ask the AP Chem teacher."</li>
<li>Even the pregnant teacher has single-handedly broken up cafeteria brawls.</li>
<li>You often ask your friends whether some kid sitting in the library is actually a student, and 50% of the time, he's in your grade.</li>
<li>There are very real arguments over which of the 5 elementary schools in town was--not the best, because the best is universally agreed-upon--but second-best.</li>
<li>Your AP Calc teacher uses the SmartBoard to play those super-high-pitched noises only teenagers can hear just to mess with your heads.</li>
<li>Your AP French teacher also taught you freshman and sophomore year.</li>
</ul>
<p>^^</p>
<p>What's wrong with having your AP French teacher having taught you in your freshman and sophomore year as long as they are a decent teacher? I, for one, like continuity! ;-)</p>
<p>At my school, all of your freshman honors teachers become your senior AP teachers; it is pretty neat actually. The best teachers in my school get to handle the freshman honors and the AP seniors only. Sophomore and Junior honors/AP gets thrown to whoever can do it.</p>
<p>But, yeah, this thread is freaking awesome!</p>
<p>I go to a small public school, and a lot of this stuff is still true, except I know everyone. Even the freshman.</p>
<p>-The majority of the meetings you have with your guidance counselor are in the hallway because he didn't remember until he saw you.
-Your AP Gov teacher sent the (only) security guard to get your class (of six) breakfast pizza.
-You call your teachers nicknames (or their foreign language equivilant of "teacher") when talking about them -- and everybody knows who you mean. (G-Skizzle, Magistra, Senora, Madame, etc.)
-You're invited to the school board meeting when you get a NMS Commendation. With one other person.
-It's not unusual to have a fight break out in the lunchroom.
-You can name at least 3 pregnant girls at any one time.
-Your entire class shows up at the same party.</p>
<p>How I love public school.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>seniors take their keychains out when we walk through the hallways because it's like having an automatic hall pass</p></li>
<li><p>There are garbage cans in the hallway when it rains and no one moves them because everyone knows they are there to catch the drips</p></li>
<li><p>as a senior you can still discover new hallways</p></li>
</ul>
<p>-I'm part of the IB program at a (very large, very crappy) public school, and if you're white or asian, you can go anywhere/do just about anything because the deans are either too busy dealing with the in school detention kids or keeping kids from leaving campus to stop you, and they assume that IB kids aren't capable of ever breaking a rule.
-Ceiling tiles crack open and dump scalding hot brown water on a teacher in the middle of a lecture.
-Everyone waits until lunch to use the bathroom so they can go to the new building, since its bathrooms are the only ones that have even a prayer of being clean and having toilet paper, paper towels, and/or soap.</p>
<p>You have your own support group for teens who are parents or pregnant. And it's big.</p>
<p>There are also two types of large public schools. White ones and black ones. No im not racist. But, the schools with more black kids are wilder. So, here are facts of my school. You know you are at a pitiful large public school when.....</p>
<p>-JUST in your communications class, 3 of the girls have a kid
-At your table in science class, some kids are throwing weed stems at eachother
-In a class, you hear somekids talking about where they are going to meet to get high diring 2nd period.
-The kid across from you in your science class already failed out last semester and is just to lazy to look into switching out
-You sign up or pre-cal and think the kids will be better because they should be smarter and the sacend day, the teacher asks the answer to the question and a kid yells out s*** and she says, "no its not s<strong><em>"
-(again not racist, just stating the facts) black girls and guys say nigga like 60 times a second and if you say niga, they would hurt you.
-the black girls yell at the other girls that they are mother f</em></strong>in b*tches and the teacher does nothing.
-For a lab in science the teacher needs a lighter to light a burner and says, "this is embarassing, but i need a lighter, if yall want to see me in private in the hallway, u may to give me the lighter. Ad then, lighters shoot up from almost every person.<br>
-You just switched to the school and there are some 9th grade classes you have to take. You see the first day that EVERY person except you has failed the class AT LEAST once.</p>
<h2>-Lastly, a 3.3 gets you a class ranking in at least the top third</h2>
<ul>
<li>There is like this water crisis and they put signs up over all the drinking fountains "CONTAMINATED WITH LEAD: DO NOT DRINK." A month later the signs are gone, but the fountains haven't been fixed. </li>
</ul>
<p>-Without fail, there is a chocolate (or strawberry) milk spilled in the hallway junction every single day. </p>
<p>All of these were really good:
-everyone hates you because you set the curve
-There are very real arguments over which of the 5 elementary schools in town was--not the best, because the best is universally agreed-upon--but second-best.
- When you have roll call at the beginning and end of each class period (to see who left class in the middle)</p>
<p>About this one:
-You still have old lockers aligned on the walls
What other types of lockers are there??</p>
<p>Every year, the same throw-up is inside the gym lockers because they never took the time to truly clean them.</p>
<p>**The janitors kill mice by putting the mop over it and continue mopping!</p>
<p>Your school reduces the locker size by at least 1/3 to accommodate younger students. And, they're already running out.</p>
<p>You can smoke ANYTHING on school grounds and have teachers/security guards ignore it. (Because reporting students is SO much work!)</p>
<p>When asked for a pass, you can talk back and still not get in trouble because it's annoying to write up students are insubordination.</p>
<p>Your school has plenty of money for computers and Smartboards. Yet, there's no money for clubs or any other student actvitiy what so ever.</p>
<p>One 'Life Skills' (the class that's supposed to teach you not to drink/do drugs) class was aurgueing with the teacher, made her cry and she had to have a cigerrate break in the middle of class.</p>
<ul>
<li></= %50 graduation rate city-wide( NYC FTL!!!)</li>
<li>when theres metal detectors -_-
-when it takes 10-20 minutes to actually get in the school becuz of big lines
-when theres wanna be gangstas
-fighting before and after school
-3000+ students (NYC)
-majority of students is minorities
-Your trying to transfer out</li>
</ul>
<p>3.4 GPA = rank 52/650 top 10% anyone??</p>
<p>-Every time it rains, the AC breaks. Teachers take classes outside or let everyone go home, because temperatures in the classrooms are in the 90s.
-You eat lunch at 10:30 am, because you have the first lunch.
-On a block schedule, you eat lunch at 10:30 one day and 12:30 the next.
-You once missed a week of classes because someone smoking in the girls bathroom set off the sprinkler system, and the teacher had nowhere to hold classes.
-You never have two consecutive classes in the same building
-The black security guards pick on the white kids, and the white security guards pick on the black kids
-The security guys who watch the parking lot to make sure people don't go out to lunch can be bribed with fries. They like the ones from Five Guys the best.
-There is at least one crash in the parking lot every month, because of the sheer volume of cars trying to beat the buses out.
-If you don't beat the buses out of the parking lot, you sit in 45 minutes of traffic trying to get away from school</p>
<p>the alarm bells go off every week!!</p>
<p>sooo annoying !!</p>
<p>-people have carrot wars. sophomores against the seniors
-the creepy sexual molester p.e teacher physically assualts a kid and a week later he IS BACK because the principal doesn't want to make a fuss and ruin the school's rep. ugh.</p>
<p>^ I so forgot about that. </p>
<p>-The fire alarm is faulty and goes off around 10x throughout the day about...every two months? Or, someone's been pulling it a lot.<br>
-The security guards help cutters cut.
-1 Field trip PER class. Period. And that's under the assumption that it gets through the bureaucracy.</p>
<p>hahaha soo true!</p>
<p>Oh yeah, lunch. Lunch goes from 10:45 (earliest) to 2:20 (latest), but each lunch period is only 25 min long. But it really doesn't matter when your period is, because the teachers stopped trying to stop eating in class years ago.</p>