<p>When they give you a two hour delay the day after the super bowl.</p>
<ul>
<li>When they completely cancel school on Monday because the Super Bowl doesn't air until midnight our time</li>
<li>When the US soccer team is going to practice on our field for the FIFA World Cup this summer</li>
<li>When people actually go all out for spirit weeks</li>
<li>When they give you Fasching and the day after off because they know all the German bus drivers will still be hungover</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>like Heather said: when everyone (even the loners, stoners, ect.) go all out for spirit weeks</li>
<li>When there isn't a single person who's not in some sort of school club</li>
<li>When your school is picked to pilot/test a bunch of awesome new city programs</li>
<li>When you can fling a cheesy pickup line at your principal and he laughs</li>
<li>When you have at least one sports team make it to regionals during each sport season</li>
</ul>
<p>...when the hardcore athletes and jocks are also super-geeky/nerdy kids</p>
<ul>
<li>Your school is 250 acres, and you constantly get exercise</li>
<li>You tell people you go to that school and all they say is 'wow'</li>
<li>You start to learn Latin in 6th grade</li>
<li>Your school is in NY, but you have people coming from Connecticut.</li>
<li>Students cry when they get an 85 average or lower...</li>
</ul>
<p>yeah, wen ur school offers latin and hebrew from sixth grade.</p>
<p>When half the IB students FAILED TAKS</p>
<p>Oh... GOOD schools... oh. Yeah... Well my school uhm... </p>
<p>OUR CHOIR WAS ON NATIONAL TELEVISION! O_O</p>
<p>When...
-there's 150 students 7-12
-the principle knows everybody, and everybody's parent's
-our school scores #1 on the 'Benchmark' for years in a row
-lunch is 40 minutes
-The average class is under 25</p>
<p>When...</p>
<p>there's an entire building devoted to dead languages.
the starting line-up of your football team all go to the Ivies.</p>
<ul>
<li>When the economics teacher makes us put all the desks in a circle and start debating about the recent elections; where his brother was one of the main candidates
-When our spanish teacher looks outside the window and says " its a beautiful day kids, how about reading some of this Antigony beneath the shade of a tree?</li>
<li>When the music teacher encourages his students to come to his class at the national university, and all of his students are ecstatic for such an opportunity
-when we constantly crack math jokes in math hl and everyone laughs....teacher included
-when some of the students raise money to pay a kid's tuition at our school because they considered he was incredibly smart and deserved a good education
-when you teachers arrive to your band concerts, and then encourage you to continue playing</li>
</ul>
<p>sometimes school sucks, but other times I'm truly thankful for being able to attend my school</p>
<ul>
<li>when counselors have one hour one-on-one academic conferences, despite the size of a class being almost 2000</li>
<li>when the off campus lunch gets shortened to 50 minutes and people complain</li>
<li>when the teachers tell kids to stop doing homework and get a life</li>
<li>when AP and IB tests overlap</li>
<li>when making straight As in AP classes isn't enough to make it into the top 10%</li>
</ul>
<p>when grades seem to be inflated only in the classes you want them to be.</p>
<ul>
<li>when we all have college mentors - all very experienced in the area of admissions to colleges - walking us through the process</li>
<li>when there's a website dedicated to college admissions, which includes admission records for our school and a bunch of other useful stuff</li>
<li>when they give you out a huge packet of information in february of your junior year to familiarize you with the process</li>
<li>when both of your best friends scored 99% on the psats (I scored 98..) </li>
<li>when a quarter of the graduating class goes on to Ivy Leagues</li>
<li>when they have cameras all over the school ensuring our security</li>
<li>when last year and this year there are 6 Intel Semifinalists</li>
<li>when your principal tells you that your school is in the top five of the country</li>
<li>when almost every ethnicity and nationality is represented</li>
</ul>
<p>nope, I don't go to TJHSST : )</p>
<p>-When the band takes a trip anywhere in the world for two weeks every other year
-When the choir does the same thing every year
-When said choir is called up to perform with Shania Twain as subsitutes for the normal band...and then praised for it because of their good job
-When a school has 50% of AP students getting 4's and 5's
-When the attendance policy is such that a senior has to only come to about half his or her classes second semester and still get a good grade
-When school ends a month early...for AP juniors
-When every clique in the school is so low key one actually has to dig deep to find them...and yet each makes up about 15% of each class's population
-When Chemistry classes are all male, allowing for good (albeit rude) jokes to be cracked at all times
-When the school's football team can play with Mission Viejo and perhaps win (applies to a nearby school in Lakewood, St. Edward)</p>
<p>-- when sending 5-10 kids (esp my class) to HYP is nothing.
-- when having a 3.8-3.9 UNweighted gpa automatically makes you the 30%+ in ranking. boo
-- when having a 2100-2200 sort of makes you the stupid one. below a 2000 is almost like a complete shun. boo again.
-- when the security guards hide behind cars, on the roof, in the bushes, etc. to catch anyone illegally leaving school
-- when nearly all of the seniors have amazing internships. no internship = odd one out.
-- when at graduation, the NUMEROUS medals/tassels/etc. obstructs your vision and prevents you from walking upright
-- when your english teacher gives her students her sn
-- when there are no fights. EVER. </p>
<p>and muuuchh more.</p>
<p>oh, and when your school music department goes out of country to perform over winter break/new years ;)</p>
<p>-When we only get one full-time college counselor for 150 kids
-When having to write an analytical paper in a week and doing 20 or so pages of reading at the same time is a light workload
-When the average hours of sleep each student gets becomes smaller when you square it.
-When the security guards wear suits
-When I frequently see students driving cars valued at over $100k
-When your school spends $2k per lamp, $10k per sofa, $30k per rug, $26 mil on a "student" center, and throws students out of the "student" center for a corporate party
-When the school deflates grades (.3 for honors AND AP AND no A+? I hear people getting 6s for As in an AP class)
-When we have 2 PhD's in the history department alone</p>
<p>The school regularly has trips taking students to other countries & other states. Next month, the band will be performing at the Sydney Opera House. This summer, there is a summer school course that includes a brief tour of Europe. Last summer, a group of students were taken to China & another group went to Europe. The summer before, there was a tour of Japan. </p>
<p>Many of the faculty (including the registrar & headmaster, much of the English department, two in the physics department & many others have pHds).</p>
<p>When? The Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony will be traveling there in June and doing the same thing (that is, performing in the Opera House).
You sound like a mother who has a student in the Pearl City marching band.</p>