Where was your high school? Did it suck hard?

[rcrush]

My high school

Judson High School
Converse TX
1998

I hated every fucking minute of it. I hated the entire judson school district. I hate that they are trying to track me down now and sending me shit about a reunion. They couldnt even get our graduating class interested in holding a reunion but I guess they are still trying.

The place is built like a prison and they lock the gates as soon as school starts at 7am. Cops everywhere to. I read a couple of years ago that some parents whined about a book and the super intendant decided to ban it. The Handmaidens Tale I think it was.

Oh yeah it was a big football school so no one gave a shit about you unless you were in football. Like anywhere else I guess.

[sasquatch]

1. Wow, why don't you tell us how you really feel

:rofl:

[DarkTirade]

2. If you were a stereotypical white upper-middle class suburban kid

with no outstanding talents or interests, and whose parents were going to pay their way through college no matter what, my school would have been fine. If you actually wanted to learn, or if you expected to actually be prepared to deal with college at all, or if you were not middle class, you were shit outta luck.

Lake Brantley
Altamonte Springs, FL
2000

So for me, it sucked. Hard. It was completely the opposite of what I needed.

[bicentennial_baby]

3. Northfield Mount Hermon

Northfield MA

1991-95.

I loved it. One of the best periods of my life. I fucking loved boarding school, and I got a top notch education out of it to boot. :D

[XemaSab]

51. Are the rumors true?

:hide:

[Deja Q]

4. The principal wasn't worth 1/10000th his salary...

I was an easy target, but "boys will be boys" and such vermin were able to get away with anything they did. To anybody.

It's best if I bite my tongue right now; there are too many bad memories of many sorts.


The fact I really am not dumb took place in college, where my grades had risen.

And I might take up some of the teachers' comments about publishing some of my writings (after updating them for a 2009 audience).

[tinymontgomery]

5. NJ

Voorees Township, eastern high school. Can't remember much except the weed was good and so where the other chemicals. Very early 70's

[BeachBaby]

8. Yo!

:hi:

You grew up very close to me. I grew up in Audubon, NJ!

[tinymontgomery]

68. My grandparents

lived in Oaklyn, if my memory serves me right I would pass through Audubon.

[trof]

6. 50 year reunions are much more interesting.

You get to see who's had nips and tucks, who 'made it' and who didn't.
Who died.
It's a riot.
;-)

[RushIsRot]

27. I have opted to skip my 50th which is a few months off. Before I

was the treasurer for the reunion committee. I have passed that responsibility along to another classmate.

[trof]

30. CHICKEN!

:rofl:

[RushIsRot]

36. Not really. Some creative minds thought the reunion would be

more fun if held in New Orleans instead of the town in which the high school was located. I have been to New Orleans twice in my life and that is enough for me.

[sniffa]

7. Matignon High School, Cambridge, Ma.

Sucked. I had to get used to an almost all white school.

The education was good/great but it was so structured I was not prepared to motivate myself when I got to college. It took me a while to figure that out.

[Kat45]

63. You went to Matignon?

Shit! Well-respected Catholic school. I knew a few kids who went there (but long before you would have been there).

[sniffa]

65. I did, but I didn't play hockey

:o

[Kat45]

111. I didn't think so, that's why I didn't ask.

I guess the school had to have at least one or two dudes who didn't play hockey. :D

[backwoodsbob]

9. I went to graham High in Bluefield Virginia

LOVED it.My teachers gave a shit and kept us interested and we actually LEARNED.

I wish every kid could have a school like I had.

Funny thing is we are a poor area.We didnt have money for extras and shit.Our teachers had to make do and they did in a big way.

I see my old teachers around and I have thanked every one of them for what they did for me.

[CBR]

11. Hey!

I went to Bluefield High School in Bluefield, WV!

[backwoodsbob]

15. damned Beavers!!

don't know if you keep up..your school is kicking ass in football.Like three of the last 4 state championships they have won or played for

[BarenakedLady]

10. Warwick, Rhode Island

Pilgrim High School Class of 1987.

I've never been to a reunion.

[Inchworm]

12. My high school no longer exists

I barely remember the years enough to remember whether it sucked or not :D

:hi:

[trof]

13. Mine too. One of them, anyway.

Shades Valley High in Homewood, AL.
A B'ham bedroom community.

[tabbycat31]

14. Pleasantville (NY) High School

class of 1998. I was an outcast due to an incident in 5th grade where one girl turned the whole class against me. In a small school (96 in my class, 65 there since kindergarten) people don't forget things.

I was not invited to the 10 year reunion. I would not wish my high school experience on my worst enemy.

[LibDemAlways]

59. The first house my parents ever owned was on Romer

Ave. just down the block from Pleasantville HS. They bought it new from the developer back in 1954 and it set them back $17,000, which was considered a lot of money back then. They didn't realize how much of a pain in the ass living so close to the high school would be. There were lots of evening events and lots of noise.

Sorry your experience at the school sucked. My 15-yr-old daughter goes to a fairly small school, too, and hates that she's known most of the kids since K. She's desperate for a new crowd. I keep telling her that life will improve in college.

[tabbycat31]

70. Ha

I also lived 1.5 blocks away from the school (Sunnyside). Not as bad as some of the houses on Romer and Clinton were (one property on Clinton has the residents up in arms every day because every smoker in the school would smoke on their (private) property after school. I would hate to come home every day and have my property littered with cigarette butts.

Many other parts of the country have larger regional high schools. I would have done much better in a school where I didn't know most people there since I was 5. In a small town school, people don't realize that the person in high school is a different person from the one in K.

[TK421]

16. Pennridge...Sellersville PA, I didn't like it at all

that school had more jocks in it than all the Old Spice commercials of the 80's combined...and if you weren't a jock, you didn't fit in ( so you got picked on, naturally )

[applegrove]

17. I hated high school. I was far to shy to be hanging out with the people I was hanging out with. I

gave up in my last year and stayed home friday nights and watched Love Boat. It was a great decision. I wish I'd been more independant in high school and made friends of my own instead of being part of a group.

[surrealAmerican]

18. The middle of Long Island (late '70s early'80s).

A mediocre school academically, it was a socially bad place to be for people who liked to think for themselves. That said, I had a few close friends, and was not nearly as unhappy there as I had been in junior high or elementary school.

[grace0418]

19. Crystal Lake (IL) South. Hated every minute of it.

There were a couple good teachers but mostly it just sucked.

[trof]

22. Small world. We lived in CL '69-'72.

Lakewood, actually.
Bought our first home there.
$32,000. 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath.
Newlyweds, and I had just started flying for TWA out of O'Hare.
Our daughter was born in Elgin.

[grace0418]

24. My family moved there in '68, two years before I was born. We stayed until

I graduated from Hell School in '88. I knew lots of people in Lakewood. My family lived near the Main Beach opposite Lakewood. If you were Catholic and went to St. Thomas, you probably knew my family due to it's sheer size. :)

[trof]

26. Our daughter was born in '71.

Not Catholic (not anything) and I was well past high school when we arrived on the scene.
I remember main beach.

[Chemical Bill]

20. Hope High School

Providence, RI. We had a race riot. Well, it was really some kids throwing chairs at each other. Compared to Junior High, I loved it.

Bill

[rcrush]

21. Hey we had a race riot to!

Well wasnt really a "riot" just a group of white kids and black kids rolling around and fighting. But I clearly heard some of them call the black kids nigger so I assumed it had something to do with race.

[Chemical Bill]

25. In Texas???!!! I don't believe it.

:sarcasm:

[trof]

35. A warranted assumption.

;-)

[begin_within]

23. El Modena High School, Orange, California

It was a good school academically and athletically. The middle-class suburb of Orange, California supplied the majority of the students. (Ironically the same area would now be called an upper-middle-class area. Back then almost any working family could live there, but now you need a six-figure income to buy those same houses.) This is in the heart of conservative Orange County. There was a substantial minority of Hispanic students, mainly from the neighboring unincorporated area of El Modena. In classes, whites and hispanics mixed freely, but socially, such as at lunch and other events, they pretty much stuck to themselves and there was little or no interaction between. This was the homophobic 1970s and there was not one "out" student or teacher. It wasn't even discussed. Any student even suspected of being gay was picked on by the bully types and this was just normal, accepted social behavior. But 22 years after I graduated, the school gained national attention in a groundbreaking case where a student sued the school district for the right to hold meetings for a Gay-Straight Alliance group on campus. (Colin vs. Orange Unified). They eventually won in court and were allowed to use the campus facilities. But during my time at the school (1975-1977) something called a Gay-Straight Alliance group would be unthinkable.

[sarge43]

28. Bay City Central MI. The educational equivalent of a galactic black hole.

Mega suckage. Loathed every moment of my four years in hell.

[PassingFair]

29. School of Hard Knocks...

Was only beaten up ONCE, but it
was a doozy that sent me to the
hospital...

?v=0

[TZ]

31. Gaithersburg High School

Class of 87. It was okay I suppose. Typical suburban HS if a little crowded. My graduation class was 550 people

[Left Is Write]

32. Burnsville, MN, and no, it didn't.

[rug]

33. 61st Street and Amsterdam Avenue, NYC. It was torn down to build a condo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Memorial_Academy

[Blue_In_AK]

34. South Houston, Texas,

and, yes, it did. Not as hard as yours, though.

[LearnedHand]

100. Man, what a shithole school -- I went to S. Houston too

I lasted exactly until after 11th grade and then dropped out. I fucking HATED that school and it sucked HARD. I made up for it though by later getting a Master's degree. NO THANKS to PISD.

[kentauros]

116. PISD

the perfect acronym for the Pasadena Independent School District :P

[dembotoz]

37. custer high, milwaukee wisconsin

hated it so much.
looking back, i was prob near suicidal at times.


the only funny thing was after i went away to university, I lived in a dorm
that had a couple of native americans a couple doors down.
These guy always seems to have the best dope and were constantly using it.

sometimes when i would walk past the room, Leo (one of the native americans who lived in the room)
would grab me and drag me into the room. When in the room, he would want me to tell the other native americans what high school i went to and what the team was called.
When i would say Custer High school and that the team was called the Custer Indians, they would just roll on the floor laughing.

[XemaSab]

52. The Custer Indians?

Shit, I'm laughing here. :rofl:

[CreekDog]

53. Custer Indians?

that's funny even when you're not stoned.

[dembotoz]

73. they went pc a few years later and are now called something else

but still, not much you can do with a name like custer

[TripleKatPad]

38. For me, it wasn't the high school

It was my experience in the place. In my town there were three junior highs and two high schools. Two of the junior highs went automatically to one each of the high schools. My junior high class was split between the two. Half my friends went one place; the other half to the other. My best friend and I were split up. Each of our half-crowds had to adapt to another whole body. It was a situation in which I didn't thrive.

[Redstone]

39. Plymouth-Whitemarsh, PA. And it didn't suck at all.

Redstone

[PRETZEL]

113. My daughter just graduated from P-W n/t

[Redstone]

119. It was a great place in the 1960s; even had a planetarium!

Redstone

[Initech]

40. Diamond Bar California.

And yes, it sucked ass. My problem is that I dont really fit in anywhere, imagine what that was like in high school. My class was full of dipshits, cheaters, naysayers, you name it, and the administrators basically acted like they didnt give a fuck the whole time.

[GOPisEvil]

41. HOLY CRAP!!!! That's where I went to high school!

I graduated in 1986. That was the year before the Gray campus opened.

It wasn't that bad when I was there. My parents still live around there.

Edit - you are correct in that people only knew the school for its football prowess. However, I was a student when all that began. My Sophomore year was the first state championship.

[rcrush]

47. I cant remember anything good about that place.

I used to get yelled at by the campus cops all the time for walking too close to the parking lot. I do remember some girl involved in a prostitution ring during graduation time.

[GOPisEvil]

48. Wow - things must have gone downhill.

We didn't have campus cops. We just had one city cop that hung out by the parking lot in the afternoons looking for guys "displaying excessive speed".

[keroro gunsou]

71. O_o

prostitution? (this i gotta hear...) beats my senior class, we only had one visably pregnant girl at graduation. and there was a shitstorm of parents squealing and wailing that she not be allowed to graduate with the rest of us. too bad those old battle-axes were outnumbered, by that girl's classmates.

the only thing my high school is infamous for is that the girls that former packer (and loud-mouthed, family-values crank) mark chmura got busted for hottubbing with were from my school, though a few years after my time. never did get the whole story, but given what i know about the decline in quality of students at my school, it's very possible that FAR more than that went on...

and i went to catholic memorial in waukesha wisconsin, the whitest school in the state. my time was... meh. the good and bad balanced out in the end. teachers were pretty good, though i still would like to see my gym teacher flogged within an inch of his life for how he treated me. and my guidence councilor, for telling me not to bother with the "advanced" class level, because she didn't think i was smart enough to handle them. just because my placement tests were suck... for the record, i was sick the day i took them and not in my right mind....

memories. feh.

[rcrush]

102. Yea

One girl's mom was runnin a prostitution ring right before graduation and they all got arrested. She actually got to walk across the stage but everyone was throwing cat calls at her and stuff.

And we definately had more than one pregnant girl. Sex ed wasnt a big thing when I was there and there were a lot of pregnant girls.

[blondeatlast]

42. Coolidge, AZ. There is no harder suckiness. nt

[bigwillq]

43. My HS was awesome!

Now there's a new HS, and even though it's much better looking appearance-wise, the old HS was so much better!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

44. It sucked hard enough to bend light.

I still have nightmares once in awhile that take place there, and I graduated a very, very long time ago. But it wasn't anything unique to THAT high school; it had to do with being a nerdy, unpopular kid in high school. It would have been the same anywhere.

[Mike 03]

45. I hate to confess, but I loved my high school

If you ever saw the movie "Dazed and Confused," you've seen exactly how we were and how we dressed. I wasn't into the drugs, but we had great teachers.

My first years was terrible but then I wised up and started to love the idea of learning. The night of our graduation celebration, I hugged my English teacher so hard.

[argyl]

46. I almost went to Judson High School. Was in eighth grade at Converse Middle School.

That was way back in 1965.Lived in Converse for one year.Then we moved up the road to the big city of Schertz.Never been back to either place and was really surprised when Judson became a 5A football powerhouse. They were barely 1A when I lived in the area.

[Arugula Latte]

49. Walnut Creek, Calif.

Bunch of snotty Republican a-holes, for the most part (some notable exceptions, though). Worst four years of my life.

[femmocrat]

50. Johnstown, PA. I loved HS.

It was a huge old baroque building that has since been torn down. :cry:

[Lucian]

54. It was in a small town in Bumfuck, MN.

I fucking hated most of it, except Science Olympiad and Knowledge Bowl.

[XemaSab]

55. Tamalpais High School

It was a mixed bag.

The biggest clique were the drama freaks, and there were only a handful of asshole jocks, so there wasn't the same mentality that a lot of schools have where the jocks are the cool kids and everyone else can eat shit. One of my fondest memories was hanging out with the photographers for the school paper in the darkroom and trying to make the biggest asshole jock look as horrible as possible. :D

Lot of hippie stoners, lot of spoiled rich kids.

Some of the teachers were of the Ben Stein model, and some were pretty good.

My high school was one of the first schools in the country to have free condoms in the nurse's office. We also had a VERY comprehensive sex ed class and programs.

The big thing that made high school really lame is that the Assistant Principal decided I was a BAD kid and kept trying to kick me out. Which is hilarious, because I had BAD friends, but I was really one of the best kids in my little group. :shrug:

Edit: Mill Valley, California.

[abq e streeter]

56. Good and bad,but the bad did suck big time

Evanston Township H.S. ,just outside Chicago. An urban suburb, and 5000- plus kids at that school; easy place for a sensitive, intelligent kid such as myself , to get overwhelmed and lost(and I've spent most of the following 40 years trying to overcome the effects of that feeling of being lost and overwhelmed) . One positive thing was that being the only school in an integrated suburb, it was of course an integrated school, and until my senior year (67-68) black and white got along really well, and not just on the surface; lots of genuine interracial friendships etc... And the problems that arose that last year were strictly the younger kids, and were looked down on by black and white alike among upperclassmen. I'll always value that part of my H.S. experience. But at that time, the town was still in the waning days of being run by old-money conservatives ( it changed 180 degrees not too long afterwards) and I coincidentally was reminiscing with my brother just today about an incident which taught me everything I ever needed to know about who and what the educational system was being run for and by... The incident was a memo we were to bring home to show our parents, that any student arrested in an anti-war demonstration would be suspended. Not convicted, just arrested. Not arrested in a prowar demonstration, just anti-war. Not if arrested for burglary, murder, rape... just protesting the war. A very clear and unambiguous message. Even at your age, kids, DO NOT fuck with the war machine and the powers that run it.

[Whoa_Nelly]

57. Sahuaro High School Tucson

Lockdowns, 10-foot gates, locked up just for school rallies, kids dropping acid, kids just dropping because eating "reds" (downers) was the "in" thing...


made some good life long friends there that I still see, spend time with...my old hippie chick days' pals.

It didn't suck too bad back then. Was only there for my Junior and Senior years.

The high school where I currently teach?



Sucks the Big One.

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

58. Holy Name Central Catholic High School

Worcester, Massachusetts

and... I HATED that school!

[av8rdave]

60. First high school...northeast ohio. It sucked like a vacuum cleaner

My senior year was in the Baltimore area. Great school, great people. I had a blast and actually learned a few things.

[LibDemAlways]

61. Palos Verdes HS in So Cal.

It was (and is) a very well-to-do repuke country club type area. All the cheerleader/football player popular types came from the wealthiest neighborhoods. The rest of us were simply ignored.

I was such a zero in high school and never had an opportunity to get involved in anything that I actually thought I'd make up for it somehow by organizing the 20th reunion. I thought I did a good job and my classmates must have agreed because many of them came up and personally thanked the only other member of the class who has my first name. No one even knew who I was.

Nevertheless, I guess I had sort of an infamous class. My two most famous classmates were former repuke Senator George "Macaca" Allen and convicted spy (of "The Falcon and the Snowman" fame) Daulton Lee, who was played by Sean Penn in the movie. When Daulton was parolled some years back, Sean Penn gave him a job. To my knowledge George Allen is still on the loose somewhere in Virginia.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

62. Yes. All three --

Actually it was five but, only three sucked hard. ;)

[Earth Bound Misfit]

64. Brooklyn NY here

all boys Catholic HS Sucked BIG-TIME, but I was usually too stoned to notice.

[struggle4progress]

66. Rightwingnutcase HS in Rightwingnutcase TX about forty years ago

It was still segregated, and despite being a public school it still had classroom prayers

The educational philosophy was authoritarian: questions were not encouraged

If you disagreed with anybody about anything, they called you a "communist"

The sweeping range of red-baiting is indicated by the fact that more conservative folk there frequently complained that Nixon was a communist

Lots of people learned that they should just shut-up and get-along -- but, of course, that was the intended lesson

The "Bush Administration" didn't surprise me much: I grew up with people like that

[BlueCollar]

67. Lowell HS...San Francisco

Great school. Culturally and ethnically diverse. I had a great time there.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

69. I went to two different high schools. One private. One public.

I went to the private one because my older sister lived there and seemed to enjoy her classmates. So I got the idea that the private school had more friendly and outgoing people than the public schools I had been going to before. So I convinced my parents to let me go to this private school.

And boy was I ever wrong.

The cliques were ridiculously crazy. Everyone had their own little clique of about 8-10 people, and all they did was talk bad about the people in the other cliques. Sometimes they would even talk bad about people in their own cliques. Basically, all they did was talk about other people behind their back.

The only people I found tolerable were the other people like me. The clique-less.

And I guess because it was just after "Dazed and Confused", all the seniors, the dumb impressionable little shits that they were, were obsessed about trying to make the freshman lives hell. The sad thing was, when I asked my public school friends whether there was any similar type of behavior at their school, they said no. The atmosphere at this private school just bred this type of behavior. They even gave the seniors their own cafeteria, which only fueled it worse.

So after two years, I said enough was enough and went to the public school I would have gone but for me going to the private school. And it was like night and day. Not only did I reconnect with my old friends, but I made new friends as well. Junior year was awesome. I made straight As twice (which I never did at my private school), had a Civics teacher who changed my life, went to prom, everything about that school year was awesome. Senior year was meh--I just wanted to graduate and get out. But still much better than anything at the private school.

[Lil Missy]

72. I don't give out details like that. Like where I went to High School.

Want my SS# too?

[Iggo]

74. Four of 'em.

Bellflower HS...Bellflower CA
Lakewood HS...Lakewood CA
Artesia HS...Lakewood CA (I know, right?)
Gahr HS...Cerritos CA

I went to enough high schools to learn that high school is high school. Some of the teachers suck and some are great. All of them are teachers. More importantly, teenage kids are teenage kids. Rich, poor, or neither...black white, brown, or other...they break up into mostly the same groups. I wish at the time I'd appreciated the real-life kind of social experiment I was witnessing, but again, teenagers are teenagers and I was no different.

This was from '74-'75 to '78-'79, and in my area they were just getting into the practice of locking down schools, with varying degrees of effectiveness. I was a master forger of notes from my mom (or from your mom, for a price), and even then the schools I couldn't walk out of, I had no real problem sneaking out of. You're right about that football thing, though. I was an A student who was almost never at school and they almost never called my house to ask why. But they had a whole battery of tutors for a football player who got a D. But here's the other side of that coin: I was never at school. And in hindsight I don't blame them one bit for focusing on the kids who happened to need more help and who bothered to show up, instead of a kid who was getting mostly A's who only half of his teachers could pick out of a line-up.

(On a side note: I've been fretting about joining up with the Facebook crowd, mostly because I really really really don't want to be looked up by the tools I went to high school with. But now that I see what I wrote above, right there on the screen in black and white, a thought occurs to me: Who the hell is going to remember me? LOL).

[stuntcat]

75. Lumberton NC, AND IT SUCKED SO BAD

It was the 80's so people hadn't started bringing guns to school yet. But they were still showy proud assholes.

[racaulk]

95. Scotland High School?

I went to Richmond Senior High, class of 1993. Howdy, neighbor! :hi:

High school was an exercise in pure torture every single day I was there. At least 90% of my graduating class were nothing but posers that went out of their way to give grief to other kids, because they were scared of what people would say about them if they didn't. I'm sure the vast majority of them were nice people in general, but peer pressure and the desire to fit in at that age can be brutal. Being an introverted kid that kept to himself, my life was Hell on a regular basis in that kind of environment.

Despite my regular desire to drop out as a means of escape, I knew that college was my only real escape from this (and from my hometown, in general), so I kept my nose in my books and tried to get good grades (which I did). Overall, I really just tried to make myself as invisible as possible and just coasted along until it was over. On June 11, 1993, I felt as if the weight of the world was lifted off of my shoulders. :)

[annonymous]

76. Annapolis High School, Annapolis, MD

When I went there in the early 80's it was massively overcrowded. My graduating class had over 500 people in it. I was a mediocre student and after a horrible experience in junior high was happy to get lost in the crowd. It was really modern when I attended. The school had computers, a TV studio, a really nice football stadium, and extensive athletic fields. It also had advanced placement courses and a really modern science lab.

Annapolis is a rather conservative place because of the US Naval Academy so any gays or lesbians were definately in the closet. I can only remember one or two gay students and they were total outcasts. The athletes and cheerleaders ruled at my high school, though some of the people in band were also popular.

The students were a mix of rich and poor as well as black and white. The wealthy students were either stoners or athletes and cheerleaders. The poor students were mainly black or rednecks. Blacks and whites at my school rarely mixed and there were a lot of cliques. I had a run in with one of the cliques and they made my life miserable for a while in my junior year of school. I hung out with a few questionable people in high school who either used drugs or were juvenile deliquents. I definately have few fond memories of high school.

[Urban Prairie]

77. Denby HS 71-74 Detroit, MI.

A classmate and I in our senior year, organized a walkout to protest a teacher strike in the fall that had caused us to have to attend school until July. We went to every HS in the city and called them out from the front of the schools to join us. It was successful beyond our wildest dreams, as thousands of HS students walked out of their classes and marched downtown to the City-County building to protest. My classmate and I were interviewed by some of the local TV and radio stations.

The next day, however, we were called into the principal's office and both received a week's suspension. Looking back, I guess that we were lucky not to be kicked out of the HS permanently.

Those were the days, sigh...

[PassingFair]

80. Jared W. Finney High....1973 -1977

I had driver's training at your school and
attended Carleton Elementary on Casino Road...

:hi:

P.S.: I protested over the same strike, but
on the side of the TEACHER'S right to strike.
That was my first TV interview, too.

[Urban Prairie]

83. Wow, that didn't take long...

Hi backatcha, PassingFair!

I wondered if anyone here would be the right age, went to school in the same city and would remember that day.

[PassingFair]

84. My MOTHER was on strike! They had been working without a contract for

a couple of YEARS, as I recall.

What elementary school did you go to?

I grew up on Peerless, but moved to
Cadieux/Warren area in 4th grade...

[Urban Prairie]

85. St. David Elementary

Outer Drive & Gratiot, but my ancestors helped build the first Catholic church outside of downtown Detroit, called Assumption Grotto, many of them are buried in the small cemetery behind the rebuilt church, as the first one burned down in the late 1800s. The entire northeast corner of the city was settled by German farmers, some of whom I am descended from, and unfortunately it looks like that same area will return to being "farmland" again eventually.

[PassingFair]

86. Ha! I went to "Region 7 Middle School" across the street!

It had been St. David's High School.

:hi:

[Urban Prairie]

89. I attended the final year before it closed.

As a HS freshman, at St. David HS, and I was doing so well in school until I opted for Denby to finish the last three years...

:hippie:

[PassingFair]

90. Well, welcome to DU!!

Maybe we'll have a meet-up around here
one of these days.

There are some good democrats scattered
around here.

:bounce:

[Urban Prairie]

92. Thanks!!

I usually hang out at the Detroit Yes! website, and discuss politics, ect..until I came across this one, which is obviously far more active. I am disabled and on a fixed income now though, and don't get out as much as I used to.

[PassingFair]

93. My best DU friend just moved to Texas ...

what's left of us have got to stick together.

Don't forget to check in with the Michigan forum occasionally.

[Mad_Dem_X]

78. Pennsville, New Jersey. And yes, it sucked hard.

High school wasn't quite as bad as Junior High (that was a nightmare), but it still sucked ass.

[blueknight]

79. covington holmes high school

covington ky.and i had a great time. maybe one of the best times of my life. holmes is the oldest high school in ky, and my mom went there as well. good teachers, good kids,( at that time)

[ccinamon]

81. Copperas Cove High School -- a disappointment more than anything...

My first two years of high school was at the International School of Bangkok (Thailand), where the teachers were tough, but fair.

The classes at CCHS were boring and the football players and cheerleaders got a free ride in every class.

[MineralMan]

82. Fillmore High School, Fillmore, CA

1959-1963. 600 kids in the entire school and just 106 in my graduating class. It had all the cliques of any school, but there wasn't much bullying and the like. I was a serious band geek, but was also the school practical joker. Some of the things I did are still famous, even almost 50 years later.

The only thing that kept me in that school was a 4.0 average. Otherwise, I'd have been tossed many times over one prank or another.

Went to the 15th reunion, but nobody I cared about was there. Haven't been back since. I'll probably make the 50th, if I'm still able. My parents, sister, and brother still live in that little citrus farming town. I left as soon as I could.

[namahage]

87. Punahou School, Honolulu, HI.

When I graduated in 1992 tuition was about $8000 per year. (Now, it's about $17,000).

Very competitive--Everything about it seemed to be centered around one main goal: GO TO COLLEGE.
(Preferably a mainland college. It was almost a mark of shame to be accepted "only" to the University of Hawaii at Manoa.)

I can only imagine what kind of pressure the students there must be under now, especially since now a President can be counted among their alumni.

[insanity]

88. Ashland High School, Home of the Grizzlies

Class of 2005
Ashland Oregon

Sucked my nuts.

[oshyposhy]

91. Manchester, Mo

We made it not so sucky.

[deoxyribonuclease]

94. Spent 2 years in a normal high school

I attended Churchill High School in San Antonio, TX for 2 years ('97-'98). Classes were easy and I didn't have many friends.

Then I was admitted to and attended the Texas Academy of Math and Sciences on the Univ of North Texas campus. Took college classes for 2 years there, received my high school diploma and 2 years of college credits. The program was great and very challenging, but I picked up a lot of bad habits (like procrastination, slacking off, etc) while there. Almost failed my first class -- differential geometry -- during my 3rd semester there as a result.

[BuddhaGirl]

96. Mater Dei High School - Santa Ana CA

Class of 1980...I don't really have any bad memories, but I don't recall anything too great about it either. Very structured and boring. If you weren't a cheerleader or a football player, you were pretty much ignored.

My former principal, a priest, was responsible for one of the largest payouts ever to a sexual abuse victim. He never went to jail either, the asshole.

[Critters2]

97. Wethersfield High School. Some days were good, some days were bad.

Like life, in that respect.

[FloridaJudy]

98. Mine was torn down years ago

Pacific High School in San Leandro, California.

It was a mixed bag. Big on football, and the principal was a real right-wing jerk: these days he'd have been one of Limbaugh's biggest fans. He was always bringing in people to lecture us on the evils of Communism, and made prep rallies mandatory. Ducking out of those lectures and rallies became one of the consuming missions of me and my friends.

But some of the teachers were great - inspiring people who actually encouraged us to think. My biology teacher gave me an appreciation of the scientific method that I hold to this day. And my English teachers made Shakespeare and Dickens come alive.

And some of my group, the "grinds" (these days they'd call us geeks) were wonderful kids: funny, smart and compassionate. I'd always wanted to go to a reunion just to see what kind of adults they turned into. But I fear that all I'd see there would be the jocks and cheerleaders, and it usually isn't pretty how they age!

[elleng]

99. South Side High School,

Rockville Centre, NY

GOOD then, GOOD now.

Wish my kids could have gone there, but moved elsewhere when I 'grew up!'

[dgibby]

101. Clifton Forge High School, Clifton Forge, Va, Class of '64

The school was so small that the football players and cheerleaders used to march in the band at half-time! We had about 300 in the entire school, 51 in my class. Most of the teachers had been there forever, and knew all my older brothers and sisters (not good, since they were A&B students, and I was known as an "under-achiever", to put it mildly). The school was very good, just sorry I didn't bother to apply myself when I was there. Fortunately, I was able to go to college when I was older and more mature. The school doesn't exist now. It was closed after consolidation. Too bad. I like small schools.

[tigereye]

103. no, it wasn't that bad

fairly large rural high school in the early/mid 70s Western PA - despite being a nerd, I managed to find my niche with the freaks, nerds, yearbook and drama people. I was so busy for most of my high school experience that I didn't have time to worry about annoying jocks and cheer-leaders who "ran" the place. I simply avoided them and concentrated on grades, musicals, yearbook and church activities.

So I guess for me the secret was being busy, active and finding folks who thought like I did.

Unfortunately the same high school is now much, much larger (the small building I attended has been mostly swallowed up by additions) and has some kids with heroin problems. :(

[old mark]

104. I hated every minute, and repeatedly asked my parents to let me transfer.

They really wanted me to graduate from that school, and I did.
I am the only one of 4 kids without at least a Batchelors degree.

I still hate schools.

mark

[Fire Walk With Me]

105. Hell-like location. Yes.

[Skittles]

106. I went to high schools in England, Iowa and Illinois

they weren't so bad - I was always the outsider, making trouble :D

[mwooldri]

108. High school in England?

There are some, but not that many.

Most call themselves secondary schools and you can get to quit at 16 if you wish, but they'll heavily encourage you to continue somewhere else later on - if you're not academically minded something like a community college, if you're university bound then sixth form college may be for you.

As such, I never went to "High School", though I did have a secondary education.

Mark.

[Skittles]

109. yes - Upper Heyford High School in High Wycombe

Upper Heyford United States Air Force Base :D

[lightningandsnow]

107. I can't tell you which one since I'm there now.

I'm a senior.

It does suck hard. It starts at 9, though...7 A.M. is intense.

[chrisa]

110. Connecticut

Pretty anticlimatic. Nothing really ever happened, that I remember. Just a boring, boring place.

People were nice. Can't say I hated it. I just don't remember it. I'm not planning on going to any of the reunions.

[Odin2005]

112. Ulen Hitterdal High, Ulen MN. Home of the Spartans. Class of 2004.

Little rural school that was pretty boring. My graduation class numbered 22. Half the teachers were mediocre simpletons. The most interesting guy there was the History/Social Studies/Geography teacher, John Otto, who worked there from 1962 to 2003. Mr. Otto wasn't just a teacher, he was a fucking institution in and of himself, nothing was ever the same after he retired. He gave us copies of the same tests and quizzes he used since he taught my parents. :rofl: Being the only 2 people with Asperger's Syndrome in the whole school, we got along just fine. :)

[PRETZEL]

114. Cornell High School, Coraopolis PA

Class of 1977.

Not too bad, pretty liberal faculty. But then again, it was the 70's.

[raccoon]

115. In lower SC. Yes, it did.

I finished decades ago. Hated every minute of it.

Don't go to the reunion, if that's the way you feel. I haven't been to any of mine and I haven't regretted it AT ALL.

:hi:

[kentauros]

117. Clear Creek High School. And it did not suck.

League City, Texas

Then again, I was in Band, in my element of intellectuals and generally full-tilt crazy individuals. We had a fucking great time! :D

I've never had any interest in reunions. I went to the ten-year reunion and only saw one friend I had any interest in talking with. Most of my friends in HS were either older or younger than me.

[mentalsolstice]

118. Charles Henderson High, Troy, AL

It sucked academically and socially. It was a small-town school where there were cliques, even among the adults. Best thing I ever did when I broke free of that shit hole. My husband thinks it's a cute little town that would be wonderful for retirement, and I said fine, he'll just have to do it with a different wife. Most people don't escape it.

[RebelOne]

120. Miami Technical High in Miami, FL

I can't say it sucked at all. We were even allowed to smoke in the cafeteria.

[Cabcere]

121. My high school (now my little brother's high school) has been extensively remodeled.

Now it's actually not so bad, but when I was there:

- The roof leaked, and not just in one or two little places. When it rained heavily, not only were there trash cans and buckets in the halls, but they also had to cover a whole section of the seats in the auditorium with tarp.

- There was only one "music room" for both band and chorus. Most of the time the band just practiced on the stage in the auditorium (which actually wasn't so bad), but when the chorus class put on their annual musical, the band kids held class in the "music room," which by then doubled as a supply closet. This meant that the band kids were squished into an area way too small for comfort (or proper performance), and the chorus kids were always running in and out of the room during rehearsals. (Yes, I was a band kid. Bitter? Who, me? :crazy:)

- There wasn't a full-time Governor's School program like in some areas - rather, it was arranged so that if you got into Governor's School, you would go there for morning classes and return to your high school in the afternoon. Naturally, this caused "chaos" when the fifteen or so of us came back every day during one of the breaks between classes. :eyes: The chair of the National Honor Society apparently hated it so much that she actively made it nearly impossible for Governor's School kids to get into NHS, even though three of the five "co-valedictorians" were Governor's School kids.

- Oh, and that "co-valedictorians" thing? It was kinda bullshit, actually. See, at my high school, ANYONE with a GPA over 4.0 (which could be achieved if you took AP classes) was declared "valedictorian." My graduating class had five, the previous class had seven (I think)...I don't remember it ever being less than two "co-valedictorians." So the top student in the class was given the same ranking as the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th...however many others had a GPA over 4.0, even if there was a numerical difference in the GPAs (e.g., if #1 had a 4.3 and #5 had a 4.1, there was no differentiation - both were "valedictorians").

- The theme for the Homecoming dance one year was "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy." Seriously - you can't make this stuff up. Also, my junior prom was held in a barn - which was actually kind of cool, except it was raining that night and, you guessed it, the roof leaked. x(