You know you went to a lame high school when...

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  • Junken_Diraffe
    Junken_Diraffe Posts: 716 Member
    Our FFA had Donkey basketball one year....actually that's what made my HS awesome..

    It was the dirt brought into the gym that made it awesome.
  • DalekBrittany
    DalekBrittany Posts: 1,748 Member
    Not allowed to wear hats inside, guys not allowed to wear muscle shirts/wife beaters, not allowed to wear French connection sweaters (strong WTF?), water bottles not sold in the school, but coke, sprite, and other soda- no problem.

    I get the hat thing and the muscle shirt thing (where I'm from it was just a respect thing/looking respectable thing) but the rest is like...what?
  • MorgueBabe
    MorgueBabe Posts: 1,188 Member
    When the halftime show done by the marching band was more popular than the game, and so were the people in it.

    That sounds like an epic high school I would have loved that.
  • MorgueBabe
    MorgueBabe Posts: 1,188 Member
    4 towns went to it, and there were only 500 people in it.

    The matching Band had to play Field Hockey Games, and Soccer Games (boys and girls)

    Field Hockey was more popular than Football.

    The dog to play ToTo in the drama play cost $3,000 for a professional acting dog.
  • coolraul07
    coolraul07 Posts: 1,606 Member
    1) As a freshman, there were almost 300 kids. At the start of 12th grade, there were less than 130.
    2) Our varsity football team won less than 8 games... in the 4 years I was there.... TOTAL! (Just checked; they were 2-8 last year... sounds about right!)
    3) Our school had the highest percentage of African-American students in the entire city (e.g. 1 white guy in my grad class), and yet had the worst boys varsity basketball team EVERY YEAR... BY FAR! (Just checked; they're 4-1 so far this year; MUCH improved!)

    *ETA: Not just my high school, but citywide dress code (all grades) forbade boys from wearing shorts (even in late spring) or sweatpants unless for gym class or sanctioned sporting event.
  • postrockandcats
    postrockandcats Posts: 1,145 Member
    My mascot was a unicorn. Awesome school, but good golly...
  • Bel0602
    Bel0602 Posts: 135 Member
    When the school's mascot was really the janitor
  • KaleidoscopeEyes1056
    KaleidoscopeEyes1056 Posts: 2,996 Member
    -Theres only about 400 people in the whole school and everyone knows each other's business.
    -Your grandmother went to the same school, same building many years ago and it still looks exactly the same.

    My aunt had one of the same teachers I did and she was 50 at the time I was taking the class. LAME!
  • JeepBaja
    JeepBaja Posts: 1,824 Member
    We only had a few computers at our school and it was a 1987 circa Apple and some Tandy TRS-80's... and our band was so "cool" they played Run DMC "You be Illin" during half-time!
  • KaleidoscopeEyes1056
    KaleidoscopeEyes1056 Posts: 2,996 Member
    When your freshman class had about 1200 people and your graduating class had less then 500..Yeah we have a high drop out rate..

    Our school had the highest teen pregnancy rate of the area. That was pretty awesome (I was among the small percentage who were not pregnant.)
  • mikey1976
    mikey1976 Posts: 1,005 Member
    i didn't finish but i would suspect that most of my class either ended up in jail, dead or pregnant. it was a hell hole for misfits
  • TheDevastator
    TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
    High school? more like sleep time in between working and TV if I showed up. still managed a decent gpa.
  • ice1200s
    ice1200s Posts: 237 Member
    It's pretty lame when the track coach happens to be your P. E. coach, and he finds ways to 2 markdowns you to death because you wouldn't go out for track.
  • rikwaynik
    rikwaynik Posts: 724 Member
    110 people in the ENTIRE school. And it was a K-12 school. Graduating class was all of NINE of us.

    Reminds me of my school. There were 2 small K buildings. One large building with 1-6 on one hallway, 7-12 on the other hallway. It was very strict and we didn't have a band, football team or a prom. I thought it was lame back then, but I'm pretty proud of it now.
  • EmilyJackCO
    EmilyJackCO Posts: 621 Member
    When the halftime show done by the marching band was more popular than the game, and so were the people in it.

    I was a proud band geek! It was a great experience, lots of friends, different cities every weekend, and I was in great shape because I was in color guard....and we were really good

    Same here - two years in flags, including a selection to join the university corp. I swear, I have to NOT march on the treadmill to this day, and it's been some 22 years. I've actually thought about a good ole practice flag for upper body work - mine was some 15 lbs by the time we were done with it, and our performance ones were like 5. LOL.

    ETA: Oh, yeah - we were known as Maternity High with a 1 in 3 pregnancy/child ratio, an onsite Alternative School, a real vocational school, and still had a fairly high graduation rate. It was an Army high school in the new bible belt buckle of the country....
  • JeanDescole
    JeanDescole Posts: 152
    Your school resembles Hogwarts... Oh wait, thats not lame at all!
  • oh_em_gee
    oh_em_gee Posts: 887 Member
    You didn't even have a prom queen. Or sports, cheerleaders, or anything normal