<p>when you can skip three months of school, never meet your AP teacher, have your name unknown, and maintain that 99%. :cool:</p>
<p>The school spends thousands on plastic grass for the football field (complete with brightly colored mascot, which cost a few thousand extra), yet somehow has no money left over to feed us anything but chicken (chicken nuggets, chicken poppers, chicken patty, fried chicken, grilled chicken- repeat weekly) every day for lunch and insists they make NO money from the cafeteria (for $7.50 a day, we'd be better off going off-campus to Noodles or D'amico...).</p>
<p>when the grades for AP classes which are remarkably easier than most honors classes are weighted while classes taken off campus at AN ACTUAL COLLEGE are not...</p>
<p>shellzie, where in mn you at?</p>
<p>when your prom theme is "One Night In Paris" hahaha.. the teachers still haven't noticed the irony of it</p>
<p>shellzie, you guys really pay $7.50 a day for lunch!!?? </p>
<p>and Jerseygirl24, I don't understand what the irony is. ???</p>
<p>^ It's about Paris Hilton.</p>
<p>the paris hilton sex tape "one night in paris"</p>
<p>another tape? <em>shakes head</em> you'd think that if she'd do that again, she'd be more careful...</p>
<p>a girl trips on acid in the bathroom during school as a futile attempt to kill her baby because she is pregnant.</p>
<p>^^ this happened yesterday so im not sure if its just a rumor...i swear my school isnt that crazy this has never happened before!</p>
<p>there's always a first time... :D</p>
<p>With the help of a friend- she swears these are all true:</p>
<p>Your 10th grade English final is watching "The Addams Family" and then writing an essay on whether it was gothic.</p>
<p>When your N. American Lit teacher was conspicuously absent on April 20.</p>
<p>...when said N. Am. Lit teacher never even noticed that you never turned in five assignments</p>
<p>When you literally taught yourself statistics out of the textbook, because it was more productive to stare at the flourescent light during class.</p>
<p>When you honestly have no idea if you've gotten a new boy's choir teacher since the fourth one quit.</p>
<p>When someone runs for class president on the grounds that he can do the dance from the end of "Napoleon Dynamite"</p>
<p>When another class president nominee run on the basis that ***** School is "just like my hair- not a lot of quantity, but a whole lot of quality" hmmm...or not.</p>
<p>When your Molecular Bio teacher stands a little TOO close to the female members of the class, follows various female students out to the buses after school and knocks on their windows, comments on how nice a student looks in the shirt she is wearing</p>
<p>...and has married a former student</p>
<p>When three kids get arrested in the middle of the hallway for credit card fraud and identity theft</p>
<p>When you're not allowed to have anything printed on your t-shirt, even if it is non-offensive. School and college merchandise excepted. And anything but school colors is banned for all merchandise sold in the gym store</p>
<p>When they lock down the soda machines that are keeping the drama kids alive for TWO WEEKS because somebody spilled Powerade in the halls.</p>
<p>...and pop cans have been used as tobacco spit receptacles</p>
<p>When you aren't allowed to have midol/tylenol/aleve on your person under any circumstances. And aren't allowed to keep any OTC drugs except Tylenol or Advil in the nurse's office.</p>
<p>When the only thing you can remember from Roots of the Modern World is the time when the teacher called one of your classmates a jackass</p>
<p>When you have to memorize more lines for your language class than for your secondary role in the school play </p>
<p>when flip-flops are banned bc the "flip-flop" noise they make irritates the headmaster, who is, btw, an elderly Chilean man who never says anything except to offer the students apple slices on their annual visits to his office and occasional nods to student in the hallway</p>
<p>When the female lead in the fall drama gets suspended 24 hours before closing night for plagiarism.</p>
<p>and her understudy is actually better than her...</p>
<p>when a guest speaker spends about half an hour explaining why he hates white people, and then angrily proclaims that he has no idea what people are talking about when they say "reverse racism", becasue it simply doesn't exist (becasue clearly black people can't be prejudiced against white people...)</p>
<p>When the choir director's kids ALWAYS get the lead in the school play, despite comments from audience members that they thought "everyone was pretty good, except for that one kid..." (the choir director's son, who else?)</p>
<p>When the girl who sits next to you in Utopia class was on an all-ice cream diet for a week, because she'd "already tried everything else." </p>
<p>When the Constitution teacher occasionally says, "You know what? Screw this. We're playing guitar for an hour instead. Go do whatever, class."</p>
<p>When the school computers have all been blocked from Myspace due to the sheer amount of traffic. Subsequently, a surprising amount of the population now knows how to set up a proxy server.</p>
<p>When your AP Physics teacher tells everybody's parents at the beginning of the year that there is no possible way anyone is getting a 5 without outside help.</p>
<p>@mobius27: Twin Cities area- PM me if you want specifics</p>
<p>@pgedufailedme: Yes, we really do. And it isn't optional- it's included in tuition</p>
<p>You pay tuition for this school?!?!?! Impressive--think I'd be looking at other privates, homeschooling & publics. <sheesh></sheesh></p>
<p>when you have an obviously broken foot and the nurse gives you ben gay and says walk it off</p>
<p>FrddyGV we have a nurse that just gives you crackers. No matter what! I broke out in hives, guess what she gave me... CRACKERS!!! She's out of her mind and is def. underqualified.</p>
<p>wow...you guys have a nurse?? lmao...we DON'T</p>
<p>isn't it required by law to have a nurse? you must have one even if she hides away in a back corner office.</p>
<p>nope lol...you just go to the secretary if you need your meds lol...</p>
<p>since when has our school cared about us? Hell, we don't even have windows and we have mice in the labs (Art and AP BIO labs)</p>
<p>^haha mice.
I remember once a sloth was found in the dead center of our school, no idea how on earth it got the un noticed. It sure as hell didn't do the ninja run.</p>
<p>Hmm my school has a senior class of 12 people, and everyone has to wear a uniform. now that sux :(</p>
<p>whoever said they get yelled at for holding the microscope with one hand, you're supposed to hold it with two, one on the base, and one on the arm. thought that was common knowledge.</p>