<p>This one comes to mind immediately:</p>
<p>When your algebra II teacher is fired for propositioning underage females the summer after he taught your class.</p>
<p>When the base of your school system revolves around tucking your shirt in. (I am from a prep school- it wasn't my choice, I am switching schools next year)!</p>
<p>when your teacher responds "Yes" to sighs from students of "Jesus Christ"</p>
<p>when your teacher mocks the pope crossing himself</p>
<p>when your white principle wears an african outfit for black history month and she acts like she looks great.</p>
<p>when ap classes are left w/o subs because the school doesnt pay enough and, hey, ap kids can be counted on to not go crazy</p>
<p>when your ap calc class consists of an ultimate tetris competition</p>
<p>when your programming teacher shows bootleg full version of starwars epsode 3 the day b4 it comes out (actually thats not bad)</p>
<p>when your english teacher misprounces origami and then challenges you that she is correct</p>
<p>when you did not have a permanent teacher for english all year long but 8+ subs - 3 of which stayed for periods of 1-2 months and others that came whenever </p>
<p>when there were only 2 books read in english - one of which was junior high level </p>
<p>when posters were made for books you never read as an assignment because they were by black authors</p>
<p>when the so-called permanent english teacher leaves after 2 months </p>
<p>when it has become accepted to play Scrabble for 2+ weeks and doodle on chalkboards while sub gives cookies and juice to students </p>
<p>...</p>
<p>When your AP English Lit teacher shows up to class drunk or hungover everyday. When you are required to pay for an ap exam and yet you are not taught enough information to pass it. When the administration is more concerned with how you dress than with what you are learning.</p>
<p>-When your school is labeled "The Medicine Cabinet" by the local police force</p>
<p>-When the school has lockdowns just so they can let drug dogs loose in the halls</p>
<p>-When your classmates think you're a genius if you get >1100</p>
<p>-When nearly all of your bathroom stalls lack doors</p>
<p>-When you ask your teachers if they do drugs they respond with "I dont know you well enough to tell you that" or "hell yes"</p>
<p>-When they have to add a "7th period" to the end of the school day because too many freshmen are failing world history</p>
<p>wow...some of these are really bad. mine aren't nearly as crazy...</p>
<p>-When there have been 3 orchestra teachers in 3 years
-When you get saturday detention for forgetting your id, but only a central for fighting
-When there is a large cut-out hole in the fence that leads to the woods where pot is dealed</p>
<p>-when there's an announcement that school will be let out early because teachers are on strike and in the same message, a report about a kid being sent to the hospital because of drug overdose</p>
<p>lh0pitalrules - My english teacher, said "what!" in a real aggrivated voice whenever someone said OMG. And then the kid would tell him to shut up.</p>
<p>teachers retire a few weeks into the school year</p>
<p>when you start to read books for english the teacher gets bored and has us watch the movie instead</p>
<p>When they have to tell you every day that they are a good school because they got the second highest recognition for the state standardized tests.</p>
<p>Seriously, every day my school talks about how they achieved the second highest rating and that means they are in the top 20% of schools in the state.</p>
<p>When your school is on Good MOrning America because some Mexicans dueled it out all thanks to an EMAIL. v_v" I mean, we're an IB school for goodness sakes!</p>
<p>When your final exam for Tom Sawyer is watching the movie :-P...and no one even pays attention during the movie.</p>
<p>the Debate team doesn't get graduation cords because the football team complained that they don't get any... (If you're team doesn't have cords, that's your problem. Don't ruin it for the rest of us)</p>
<p>At least 8 french teachers in four years, each with their own unique quirks. One liked to tell us about the several times she almost got raped in france, another gave people full credit on a project even though it was 2 months late, another taught us dirty, sex-related expressions, etc.</p>
<p>The English H teacher gave the entire class perfect essay grades because she was too stressed to grade them before the quarter, and never regraded them for the semester.</p>
<p>We have changed principals every year for the last 4 years.</p>
<p>Every year at least one counselor either retires or goes out on maternity leave.</p>
<p>Construction sites are the most biodiverse regions.</p>
<p>The school built a two-story library and a 3-floor classroom building 40 years ago, but weren't deemed to be able to withstand an earthquake until massive construction happened last year... And we live pretty close to the San Andread fault...</p>
<p>More to come, when i think of them</p>
<p>When your school is over 80 years old, and they are finally reconstructing, leaving you with very little space and no auditorium. And by the time they finish, the school will be the most attractive in the county. Except construction finishes 4 years after you graduate, and it starts in your soph. year.</p>
<p>-when the school's had bomb threats 14 times in one month</p>
<p>-when "shower slaps" are not allowed, but "flip flops" are. (we still haven't figured out the difference...)</p>
<p>-when half of your APUSH class is related to each other</p>
<p>When they don't allow band shirts, as if all musicians are low class potheads.</p>
<p>-your school Academic Performance Index is 4 on a scale of 10</p>
<p>-people get 1's out of 100 on the state standard tests because all they do is guess </p>
<p>-bathroom windows are taken down because of graffitti </p>
<p>-your health&safety teacher likes to cuss every 15mins </p>
<p>-your math teacher used to be on PLAYBOY magazine</p>
<p>-our football, basketball team sucks......we finish last place</p>
<p>-the football locker room smells like shyt...... the team stinks bad!</p>
<p>-our school has 3 cafeteria.....two of them don't check ids and everyone at our school calls it a buffet because they keep getting seconds & third lunches until they are full</p>
<p>-school is too poor to fund AP programs(AP English, APUS, AP BIO/CHEM/Physics, AP Trig, APGov/Eco are the only ones we have)</p>
<p>-bathrooms don't have stalled and people don't flush the tiolet after taking #2</p>
<p>-fake fire alarm drills</p>
<p>-people jack sodas from our soda machines without having to pay; one time there was a riot around the vending machines and they flip the machine over so the glass would break then everyone would grab all the bags of chips and coins coming out of the broken machine</p>
<p>-we have only 2 sets of bathrooms for boys & girls </p>
<p>-your english teacher farts and when the class laugh he got embarassed at first while denying that it wasn't him. Then few seconds later he gave everyone dentention for laughing at him because he got mad that the class didn't believe him </p>
<p>-geometry/football coach lets you out 20mins early before the bell rings</p>
<p>-we have low graduation rates; at least 100 people don't graduate from the senior class </p>
<p>-the school has a problem of getting hispanics in honors/AP classes; the whole AP class subjects for all juniors you see only 3-4 hispanics taking it and the teacher seems to encourage hispanics to take AP classes by giving them better grades or curves.....</p>
<p>-our school is so ghetto fill with gangsters selling pot </p>
<p>-we have these kind of fights every month at the quad at lunch........everyone would be racing towards the scene to watch them fight while 5-10 mins later the narcs would break it up</p>
<p>-we had 1 chick fight where one of the girls lost her bra in the crowd and she was exposed</p>
<p>-our school lacks diversity... there is only 1 black student in the whole junior class</p>
<p>-the boys basketball team would often jack off in the gym</p>
<p>-every teacher grades different; you can get a F in one physics teacher but if you transfer into a certain teacher you can get an A </p>
<p>-an African-American spanish teacher teaches spanish in english </p>
<p>-75% of the student body relies on free/reduced lunch program but you see them buying $4 Starbucks drink to school everyday. </p>
<p>-half of the people fail PE because they just sit around</p>
<p>-on our biology/world history finals; it was open book and notes test</p>
<p>-one of our english teacher is dating a counselor at our school </p>
<p>-the french teacher leaves the classroom in the middle of the finals then every1 exchange amswers</p>
<p>-the world history teacher was at her desk reviewing our finals then had to go to the restroom then left the answers/questions inside the drawer. Then the guy opened up the drawer & took the question packet and copied all the answers for everyone </p>
<p>-one of the teacher has a beef with another teacher and makes it a publicity in the school newspaper</p>
<p>-many students can't drive till they are 18 because they failed Driver Ed freshmen year </p>
<p>-our ceramics teacher doesn't care about her job. If we made crap out of clay, she would still give us A's. For our FINALS, we have to make a scrupture. One student made a disfigured face of Michael Jackson with his nose chopped off and got an A for it.</p>
<p>ewph... you really must not like your school mrxalleycat. I like the idea of making a disfigured face of MJ in ceramics though.</p>
<p>wow... i really thought my high school was bad till i read ya'lls posts... gee... i was lucky...</p>