<p>oh yeah, in our computer classes, 90% of kids are on games, email, internet etc etc. once even a porn site and the teacher doesn't realize.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>When your school is SOMEHOW <em>more</em> overcrowded after losing 1,000 kids to a relief school. (Yay for the utter brilliance of the administration!)</p></li>
<li><p>When no one passes the FCAT, including AP kids. And you yourself missed only one question on the entire thing.</p></li>
<li><p>When according to a survey, less than one-half of all the students in your school can locate the United States on a world map. That is SAD.</p></li>
<li><p>When no one knows what "dreary" means even though your school epimotizes it.</p></li>
<li><p>When half a dozen students die this semester because of various car accidents, and the administration decides to show a nearly-comical video on car accidents. When your friends die from car crashes, it is NEVER comical.</p></li>
<li><p>When more than half the school in portables... and your school is located in the hurricane's favorite vacation spot.</p></li>
<li><p>When you have one guidance counselor for 1,000 students. When one retires, the school "redistributes" those kids for that guidance counselor... and never tells the kids. When said kids ask, they are responded with: "You should know."</p></li>
<li><p>When the College and Career center doesn't know how to use the internet.</p></li>
<li><p>When you say fascism and socliasm are totally different, and the other studentss are surprised. This is usually followed by a: "wow, you're so smart."</p></li>
<li><p>When 99% of the entire school population (including the teachers) do not acknowledge the existence of adverbs.</p></li>
<li><p>When your newspaper can't spell "continued" so all the grammatically incorrect articles are followed with "cointiuned on pge 5................" and no one notices, despite it being bright and bold.</p></li>
<li><p>When your APUSH teacher claims India was, indeed, imperialized by the French.</p></li>
<li><p>When about only 5% of the school know who the Vice President is.</p></li>
<li><p>When there is Young Republicans club, but not a Young Democrats one.</p></li>
<li><p>When all the scene kids claim to be "not scene" and "wholly intellectual." Then they toss around words like "conversate" and "examinate" seriously.</p></li>
<li><p>When nobody believes you when you're talking about Vermeer's discovery from looking through the camera obscura. And Vermeer lived over 300 years ago.</p></li>
<li><p>When nobody believes you when you say ice doesn't cool down water, but the heat of the water is lost in transfering it to ice. They think you're crazy. You say, "It's conceptual. If it was the other way around, ice would get colder while water would get hotter." They tell you to stop making up words.</p></li>
<li><p>When people trample over people (seriously... think of the animal society dream sequence in "Mean Girls") to buy raffle tickets.</p></li>
<li><p>When all of your classes have NO windows AND doors. You only have three temporary walls as thick as cardboard, so you hear all the classes at once... and teachers are too uninspired to shut them up.</p></li>
<li><p>When the first month of school, you have to wear a gas mask (or at least a scarf) and run like the dickens through the hallways. Why? They took all the two-decades old toilets out and laid them in the hallways because of a plumbing problem. Afterwards, they were too lazy to put them back.</p></li>
<li><p>When anime is considered godly and extremely sophisticated art.</p></li>
<li><p>When you have 10 valedictorians last year, 9 of which stayed in state (my state is FLORIDA, keep that in mind), 1 one of which went to Mississippi. 1 of the 9 was congratulated for having a full scholarship to a community college. I don't have problems with community colleges... but this is the valedictorian.</p></li>
<li><p>When out of 600 senior kids (down from 1200 from the freshman population), the highest SAT score is 1420/1600 and 2160/2400.</p></li>
<li><p>When your school, despite having a lot of AP classes, a lot of students, a lot of clubs, a lot of everything because it's so freaking huge, has not sent a kid to an Ivy school in the last decade.</p></li>
<li><p>When out of a school population of nearly 3,000, only 50 kids take Physics of any kind (regular, honors, AP).</p></li>
<li><p>When your school's biggest pride and glory is that you're a "B" school, because more kids have passed the FCAT than ever... which is still less than half.</p></li>
<li><p>When you have more knowledge about any given subject than 80% of your school's massive staff and faculty.</p></li>
<li><p>When your friend argues with the math teacher every day about math and your friend wins every single time. And that was an AP class.</p></li>
<li><p>When an administrator argues with you and tells you can only pick one country for your club's Homecoming theme, and you say Great Britain. He says "that's too massive, and I said one country, not the continent!" You lose the will to fight, and so you pick England. Afterwards, some other club picks the United States. You swim in fury because Great Britain isn't even as big as Texas.</p></li>
<li><p>When a girl claims some kid shouldn't make fun of Hispanics because they make up 92% of America, and "deal with it." The student body agrees in all seriousness, and you want to commend the girl for standing up for herself and shoot yourself sixteen times in the foot at the same time.</p></li>
<li><p>When only a quarter of the student body can name two other countries in North America.</p></li>
<li><p>When 99.99% of all people who go to your school never, ever leave the county until they die.</p></li>
<li><p>When the media center does not have copies of Voragine's "The Golden Legend" and maybe one book by Victor Hugo. But hey, half the library is made up of Shakespeare, because he's the only important one, right?</p></li>
</ul>
<p>when there are science teachers that don't know why we only see one side of the moon</p>
<p>when the school has so much plagarismphobia that they suspend you if you worked with a partner in class on a lab report and happened to have the same sentence in your procedure</p>
<p>when the math teacher sets up a trig problem with basketball players and leaves you to calculate their height: 11 feet</p>
<p>when seniors ask the freshman to help them solve quadratic equations</p>
<p>when there is a countdown to graduation, for the junior class</p>
<p>when people will look at you as if you had three heads because you can't name all of the players in the NFL.</p>
<p>when the school sells soda for 1.25 in the cafeteria when there is a vending machine in the hall not too far away that sells them for .75, and they still sell a lot</p>
<p>when the computer classes consist of watching movies, playing sharades with words that i will not post on this forum, and listening to the the teacher talk about how her boyfriend's tax return was more than her annual income</p>
<p>when a 12-minute mile looks amazing</p>
<p>when the track team practices in the school hallways</p>
<p>when the english teacher's car is blown up</p>
<p>when the bio teacher yells at you if you're holding a microscope with only one hand</p>
<p>when the same teacher spends class time trying to convince the students she saw a UFO</p>
<p>when the lab and the classroom and the same thing</p>
<p>when people try to get high off the gas escaping from the heaters</p>
<p>when summer vacation for the senior class starts a month and a half early</p>
<p>when the computer teacher has no idea what a floppy drive is</p>
<p>when you could make more money than half the nation's workers by doing other people's homework and getting paid</p>
<p>when there is only one physics class, with seven kids</p>
<p>when you know more math than your math teacher, when you were a freshman</p>
<p>when the only reason people do homework is so they can write it up in class on the high-tech "smart boards"</p>
<p>when the students, when asked to name the 10 most important things in the past 1000 years, put sports above the atomic bomb, telescope, calculus, etc. etc.</p>
<p>when the music theory class is just a bunch of seniors playing video games. (notice how there is no teacher)</p>
<p>when the teacher gives detentions beacuause people started to pack up 3 seconds before the bell rang</p>
<p>when teachers also give detentions because the school is so underfunded that they need students who stay after school to do some of the janitor's work, while the janitors wander around aimlessly</p>
<p>when the math teacher makes the students use toliet paper as tissues</p>
<p>when teachers review what's going to be on the test the same period as the test, and still half the class fails</p>
<p>When you have a "bring your tractor to school" day, and half the parking lot is filled with tractors. Some people drive their lawn mowers.</p>
<p>I'm totally not kidding.</p>
<p>haha that's hilarious. i'm sure it's something my school would love to do. we have so many fields and tractors, it's not even normal.</p>
<p>Do you live in the Midwest or South? Just my guess. (If this offends anyone, sorry, I didn't mean to do so.)</p>
<p>ahhhhhahahhahah i get it..you're hilarious kchen but im from NJ</p>
<p>When a school begins advertising its AP classes to sixth graders...and then recruits juniors and seniors to help with the effort.</p>
<p>kanem07, you have two identities?</p>
<p>I guess I'll add another one...</p>
<p>_ when the country club golf course of a secured wealthy community is open to the school's varsity golf team.</p>
<p>when your teacher pokes you while taking a test because you are wearing a college football team hat that is a rival to where he went to college.</p>
<p>Wow, I totally thought that this was the "You know your school is good when..." thread, so I wrote something positive. Oops.</p>
<p>Last year the spanish teacher was sleeping and sometimes raping girls in his class</p>
<p>what was done about it?</p>
<p>Jeez!
b&mMix, what school do/did you go to?!?!
(or are you just supposing?)</p>
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<p>Dunno who that was aimed at...but, Midwest. :P</p>
<p>You have to have farms for this nation to be productive!! C'mon, some love for the farmers.</p>
<p>Although I hate the smell and the hicks that come along with many of them...which is why I'm totally escaping from the rural Wisconsin-ness.</p>
<p>he got fired...was seen like once or twice then dissapered....it was kept all very hush-hush</p>
<p>NEW ONE</p>
<p>...when your school has so many kids misbehaving on the internet that they block GMAIL because of the recently added chat feature, which inturn causes your 8 page project to be late because you cannot access your email account</p>
<p>our school blocks the google search for jim crow laws.. that had my history teacher ticked off.</p>
<p>When the school computers are rendered useless because someone took out all of the mouse balls.</p>
<p>When any webpage with the word "nuclear" is blocked, because obviously we're trying to make bombs in the library.</p>