What is special about your HS, or School that you go to

[Anne George]

My school isnt much to talk about because it sucks but we do Have a Principal who A) cant recite the Pledge of Aliegence and B) has to repeat her name like three times when she does announcements over the intercom. of course there is our Football team that stinks so the people who show up to our games are there to watch the band so most of them leave after halftime. then of course there is always the fact that the school is not big enough to fit all the students

[KTorak]

My High School carries the honor of being the ONLY high school in AMERICA to have the MULE as their macot.

*wishes he could attend Cranbrook becuase he got mailed about applying. I dislike my school becuase of lack of funding in the right areas, READ: If its not a sport, they could care less*

[Ali Ahmed]

I guess the best thing about my school is that we have the number one high school baseball team in the country. It is also where Val Kilmer and Kevin Spacey graduated from.

[Alex Pelan]

Umm...we killed a goat. Or so the legend goes. This story tells the beginning of our rivalry with Rockville High School, one of the schools involved with RAGE (no hard feelings, right?). Allegedly, before a big game, a group of our football players (read: people not quite up to the FIRST-level of intelligence) decided to steal Rockville's then mascot, which was a live goat (their mascot is the Ram.) Then, they decided to paint it out school colors, maroon and gold. Unfortunately, they painted the goat with toxic paint, and RHS's new mascot was the dead goat . Ever since, we have been rivals.

I sincerely doubt this is true, but it's all that's coming to me at the moment.

[Laura 1547]

my school is an all girls school from the best country in the world...we get divided into 4 houses and have inter-house competitions every month to compete for the house cup at the end of the year (it's like harry potter and i remember once after a volleyball game a girl asked me if we had wands because our school is actually a castle and its so much like harry potter :S:S) also we have a tunnel under our school that goes to Lake Ontario but i've never actually seen it...oh and supposedly the schools haunted but i've never seen any ghosts...it just creeps me out alot!

[Sakura141]

Our new highschool will split everyone up between the buildings... and our mascot is the panther but that doesn't seem to special... we've got freakish loads of team spirt and our rivals are the Holland Dutch... We're one of the many Holland Schools in Holland... there's Holland Christian, Holland Alternative, Holland, West Ottawa, Black River, and Corpus Christie...

[Beth Sweet]

My school is cool because of our riots. No, I'm just joking (though, on the record, this last one was not a riot...)

MSU is cool because our mascot, Sparty, is the reigning national "Best Mascot" two years running now. He went down to the competition in Florida and just kicked. Go Sparty!!!

[shyra1353]

We do all our classes at once for the entire year (yes .. all year i am taking 3 different maths, 2 sciences, and 1 english) ...

In grades 7 and 8, you combine all the course material from grades 7,8, and 9 (because grade 8 is typically a review year in Ontario). When you should be in grade 9, you do all grade 10 courses. When you should be in grade 10, you do all grade 11 courses. When you should be in grade 11, you do a mix of grade 11 and 12 courses. When you should be in grade 12, you do all grade 12 courses. The good thing with this program is it gives you the opportunity to do more grade 12 courses (which is what is based on for university .. Top 6 grade 12 marks made up of the prerequisites required for the program and the remaining highest marks) and in your final year, you can take less classes giving you more spares (scheduled periods without class ... so you can do what you want).

We have an experiential learning program where certain time slots are set aside in the years you should be in grade 9, 10, and 11. In this time you get to do crazy stuff like go to Japan, make gingerbread houses, learn yoga, get your CPR certificate, etc. And in the year you should be in grade 11, you finish classes in April and write your exams then, so you can go on a 2 month co-op experience, either at home or abroad.

The Bronze Duke of Edinburg Award has been built into the curriculum. So by the time you graduate, you are guaranteed to have it, if not your silver and gold. (www.theaward.com for more information)

oh .. and we are all girls ...

[JonBell]

Hrmf. Until last January, we were the only public high school in CT to have 9th grade at a jr. high. And two years ago it took 15 attempts [referendums](a record in the state, close to one nationaly) to pass our budget. But that was after a few school board people stole about 3 million dolllars from the school.

[Eddie168]

My high school is nuts for the class of 05'. NMB senior high (my school!)

-like 3 seniors going out of state for college
-The prom: no prom king (lol) and like 2 prom queen selections
-athletics is pretty decent, but they care more for football and baseball
-The student population is like majority black and hispanic folks. asian population is 5% (wow)
-barely anyone cares about robotics in my school. (all of them think it's battlebots)
-a common stereotype within my school about the magnet program. "people in the magnet are nerds" so not true
-barely any school spirit for the seniors (odd)
-the tv studio for tv production class got vandalized before my christmas break.
-too much thug like people around the school, heck security guards don't even care.

Yea my school can get crazy most of the time.

[santosh]

Originally Posted by Eddie168

-barely anyone cares about robotics in my school. (all of them think it's battlebots)
-a common stereotype within my school about the magnet program. "people in the magnet are nerds" so not true

Yeah with time, all that will change. They had that problem at our school 3 years ago but now everything is cool.
- Shareef Abdu-Rahim (Portland Trail Blazers), Josh Wolf (US olympic soccer team or something like that), Jamario Davidson (University Alabama point gaurd) went to our school
- We are the 3rd or 5th ranked program in the country for SAT with the last 2 str students for Georgia coming out of our school
- We have to take 2 sciences a year yet some people still take more
freshman = biology and chemistry
Sophmore = biochemistry, chem 2, Phys 1, and physics 2
junior = Ap Biology, AP Enviomental science, AP physics B or C, AP Chem, post AP chemical Engineering, Post AP robotics, Post AP Genetics, etc....
Senior = any of the previous and required Senior research and internship
- We have a separate building for the Magnet program which is only Math science and technology
- Many people at our magnet program have xanga's
- our magnet mascot is basically the CircuitRunner
- we have the best chem and physics teacher in the state
- All of our rooms will have S.M.A.R.T. boards
- most rooms have 15-30 computers
- Every student in our county is getting an iBook withing the next year
- during lockins we play halo on our projector screens
- 20+ person LANs occur twice a month
- Many star school athletes still come out of our magnet program
- Robotics is the most revered club in our program
- bunch of other rndom stuff
Yeah our magnet program is kinda difficult but it is worth it. Lots of very weird kids though

[tellsomebody]

our high school is special because we r 96% black 90% white teachers fight every day but the enginering program in our school is amazing considering the problems we have ow yah and a teacher quites every mounth

[Daniel Brim]

RUHS is the second largest campus west of the Mississippi. It is over a mile long. We have 10 minute passing periods because of it.

Also, it is our 100th year

Past alumnuses: Charles Lindbergh (for about 5 months), Demi Moore, The Smothers Brothers, among others.

Not to mention our school is falling apart. Our science building is from the 20s, our "alumni walk" has sinkholes from all of the rain, and we have had to fire 3 different construction contractors because they fell behind.

Oh yeah, our school sounds like your's Ben (although I think that you don't post here anymore).

-Daniel

my high school isnt really that speacial...we are one of the bigger schools in our district...and last year we almost passed the No Child Left Behind...but we didnt because like 10 students didnt show up for the test...so were trying it again and if we pass then we are the only school at least in our district and in the area to pass. And our school has 6 time winning national cricket team haha...but thats about it.

[looneylin]

Our school is all girls and some of the students currently attending are awesome! Like one of my friends tried out for a role in Spanglish and one of our freshman is a really popular model, Dana Marcollini, she's trying out for Calvin Klein.

In all, our school has really improved our charisma and our confidence as girls! So we can rock on at robotic competitions! lol