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I've always been so envious of American teens! I feel like I missed out because I never went to high school in America. Is it like that you see on TV? I mean are the schools the same, are the parties as epic?
| Exactly like in films | 23 | |
| Nothing like in films | 103 | |
| Other | 18 |
Oh yeah. Everyone looks like they are 25 and no one has boundaries. Only one our two students has parents. Class is unimportant because everyone just hangs out in the halls complaining about their overly dramatic relationship and picking on the new kid. Besides, class only lasts 2 minutes at most. Even though the teacher is just getting started on an interesting point, the bell rings (good thing because those 2 minutes are sooo unbearable). If you haven't found your soul mate by this time, you are a loser. These are simply the best years of ones life...
Honestly, an epic high school party is joining your friends in the woods to smoke some pot. Pretty simple stuff.
I don't know. I sailed through high school on 3 things:
-Not giving a crap about reputation
-Not giving a crap about relationships
-Not giving a crap about high school
I didn't go to high school (homeschooled) and I'm fucking glad. All it is is either a bunch of stuck up brats picking on anyone different, or a bunch of cliques bickering over music and clothes. Unfortunately, it seems like real life is becoming more and more like high school. A girl died about a month ago and my former friend said she deserved to die because of the music she liked. I almost punched that asshole. I kicked him out of my car in the rain and made him walk the 3 miles to his house.
Its shitty. Seriously. Nothing like the romanticized media portrayal. Movies and tv shows sensationalize it so much because it sells. Its like porn. Would you say porn is an accurate depiction of what sex is really like?
Its like someone telling a story about their memories of once-in-a-lifetime experiences, with thick embellishment. Events like the ones they're talking about rarely happen, and they leave out a lot of important details.
Being in-between a child and an adult sucks over here...I would imagine its a similar situation everywhere. America is rich and kids are often over-privileged, so sometimes things can get crazy. But almost never the "cool" kind of crazy. It usually turns out badly, sooner or later. Thats the epilogue you don't see. I heard a local news report about some kids who tried to make project x happen. People died.
IMO, American university life is a different story. More similar to the portrayal in TV shows and films, if you go to a university that is known for partying.
American culture is nothing like in the films. High school for me was boring and uneventfull.
TV is art. It embellishes and contorts.
For me, high school was close to nothing like what television portrays it as. It was a good experience but not at all the picture painted for you by others.
The cliques are similar, but everyone is much younger and not as good looking and the cliques are not a militant. I would say actual high school kids are smarter and funnier than the simplified TV versions, but are not nearly as wild and independent. Despite what TV showed, we didn't all have cars (some of us rode the bus), we actually had to do homework and I NEVER saw or heard of one of those giant "parents are gone" mansion house parties in my life.
Depends on what you've seen on tv. If you've ever seen the breakfast club, then those cliques are pretty accurate. Sometimes we feel lost or like we don't belong, although that's just a teenage perspective. I don't think high school itself is like a giant party where nobody studies, at least my high school wasn't. I'd say that John Hughes films portray a pretty good look at teenagers, but high school is not a giant party.
How it is for me: People just stay in their groups of friends.
No one gets picked on unless you pick on them.
We don't have food fights.
We don't have parties.
We don't have do drugs, smoke, or drink alcohol.
We do our homework, some don't, some never do.
We do our classwork, some don't, some never do.
We do call each other names if you got a problem.
That's all I can think of :P
NOTHING like tv. In all mine cheerleaders were lame straighlaced losers. Parties are just a group hanging out drinking or getting high and sitting around. Proms and sports were for geeks. Its DIFFERENT EVERYWHERE depending if you live in the southern states, the city, the suburbs. One i went to had daily fights, metal detectors, and gangs.
I have a friend that came from Brazil last year and a few months after her moved here she said that this is nothing like what she's seen on tv back in Brazil. I just laughed.
basically school is basically the same everyday. the people are the same every year. we do not have parties. teachers go out of their way to make their students miserable.
It's not fun like it is in films, but it's fun in it's own way. I really liked high school.
As a non-american I have wonder about this too and then saw a tv programme on a high-school where the majority of the students were blacks and my God that day I was really ashame to be black.
Most movies don't portray reality very well. My high school wasn't like any movie I've ever seen. And neither was life at university for that matter.