You know you go to a PUBLIC school when...

<p>-when during the summer teachers tell you to shut up and go to sleep because it's too hot to work
-when there's 10+ rivalries INSIDE the school
-when school nurses know how to put stitches on</p>

<p>From a facebook group:<br>
You know First-Class has nothing to do with airplanes.</p>

<p>You firmly believe all asians are smart.</p>

<p>It's taken you fourteen days to get a hold of Mrs. Farrell.</p>

<p>You know who Mafia Boy is.</p>

<p>You've run the mile in frosty temperatures...in nothing but shorts and a t-shirt.</p>

<p>You know the fishtank has nothing to do with fish.</p>

<p>You have seen kids climbing out of windows in the 400 hall.</p>

<p>You keep asking why the freshmen are so small.</p>

<p>You know the REAL name for the Welcome Back dance and think it fits.</p>

<p>Your graduating class tried to vote a gay guy for Homecoming Princess.</p>

<p>You've been drug tested on Carbone's urging.</p>

<p>You don't actually know all of the words to The Pledge of Allegiance because no one ever makes you say it.</p>

<p>You enter the school through the same one door everyday, even though three are available.</p>

<p>You're on a first name basis with the cafeteria ladies.</p>

<p>You've been threatened by Carbone. With the New York knife.</p>

<p>You know the difference between a bus that's late and a Late Bus.</p>

<p>You or someone you know works at Pennington Market.</p>

<p>You've moshed in the 200 hall.</p>

<p>You've uttered the words "You know, he's not really blind."</p>

<p>You can identify the difference between gold and Vegas gold.</p>

<p>You've been shut inside a gym locker by your friends.</p>

<p>You've made a stuffed mole.</p>

<p>You're used to seeing the Navy sitting in the hallway outside the cafeteria.</p>

<p>You've seen a coke head being chased through the halls by cops.</p>

<p>You're on a first name basis with the VP's.</p>

<p>Your parents had the same teachers you have.</p>

<p>You know exactly how to get around the internet blockades set up in the school.</p>

<p>You've fought over which channel to watch in lunch, even though you can't hear it anyway.</p>

<p>You know that technology comes before heating and A.C.</p>

<p>You mistook the minority in your math class as your landscaper.</p>

<p>you were convinced at one point that mr. o'brien threw desks at freshmen and chased them down the hallway.</p>

<p>Your baseball team has turned a dugout into an aquarium.. catfish included.</p>

<p>Half of your friends worked at Stop n Shop..then quit..in the same week.</p>

<p>You don't yield for pennington school kids.</p>

<p>Added by me:</p>

<p>When your avg SAT score is 1704 and 2 neighboring towns still beat you.
When 5 seniors drive a brand new Mercedes, and are made fun of by the land rover drivers.</p>

<p>-Your French teacher makes joke whenever people are absent that they're smoking in the woods. And even though you're a freshman, half the time it's true. And if it's not, just wait till senior year....</p>

<p>-The gangsters walk past your English class singing some rap song their buddy made up and half the class starts singing with them. And your teacher praises your originality.</p>

<p>-Your teachers keep going, "For those of you that plan to go to college.... Oh **** you're my IB kidsnevermind."</p>

<p>-You get visits from the Coast Guard, Navy, Marines, etc. And the only college rep that ever comes is the community college one.</p>

<p>-Your school newspapers posts the most popular colleges for grads. #5 is Chapel Hill. And #1? The local community college.</p>

<p>-The cosmotology department has more funding than the science.</p>

<p>-The top grads go to Harvard and Williams. The lowest drop out before the legal age. And it really messes with your mind when you're asked to describe your school.</p>

<p>-The principal yells at a girl because her shirt shows her midriff and she yells back, "I'm pregnant, you shmuck." </p>

<p>-Not my school but a nearby one: The principal has to announce on the first day of school, "Have a great year! And please, don't bring your kids to school."</p>

<p>None of these are true for me. For starters, I go to a public school that is considered the best school (out of both public and private) in the entire state. My school only has 500 people in it, and I know every single person in my grade. The faculty parking lot is also 4 lots bigger than the visitors parking. We only have 1 principal and no one gets in fights. Saying that those things the true across the entire board of public school is FALSE! I think they only apply to certain, bigger public schools.</p>

<p>This website is really elitist, just saying. </p>

<p>When you’re the only junior who takes the PSAT because everyone else who took it with you last year thinks it’s a sophomore-only test. </p>

<p>When you’re the only person in the county taking SAT Subject Tests and the proctor falls asleep while he’s administering them to you.</p>

<p>When everyone in your AP English class is going to a public in-state college. </p>

<p>This is off-topic, but I went to a private Baptist school for a couple years when I was little. I transferred to the local public elementary school in 2002, and I remember being sincerely surprised that they let girls wear pants. Thankfully my worldview is quite a lot different now.</p>

<p>^^ my school has about 500 also. We have 1 prinicipal. Student parking is bigger than faculty. Fights and drug searches occur. Sometimes there is 1 cop there with his dog in the afternoons. They lock the bathrooms and locker rooms.</p>

<p>I also don’t know half of my grade although is was new from private school last year</p>

<p>That was for 2 above not you. Sorry for the triple post guys.</p>

<p>When people smoke pot in plain view on school grounds and teachers and other facility members walk by them not caring </p>

<p>When teacher’s talk about how much they wish they where teaching in a different school </p>

<p>When you school parking lot can only accommodate about 25 cars best </p>

<p>When you school still has graffiti on it from last years grad prank</p>

<p>When you can go to the bathroom for half an hour and the teacher doesn’t notice or just doesn’t care </p>

<p>When your school only has 3 clubs in total </p>

<p>These are all facts about my old school though and im starting at a new much better school for Junior year and I got my fingers crossed it’ll be a 100x’s better XD</p>

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