I guess I'm in the minority here, but my high school experience was pretty much exactly the sterotype.

It seemed like everyone hated everyone, so rumors floated around like... something that floats around in abundance. The jocks thought the nerds were getting all the money on upgraded science and computer labs. The nerds thought the jocks were meatheads. The artsy folk hated everyone cause they got no budget whatsoever. Everyone thought the ROTC guys were uptight and weird. The emo crowd liked to play tap-sack, so nobody got close to them. I went to a science/math magnet school at an unreputable host school, and it was pretty commonly understood the host school would have been shut down by the state if not for the magnet school averaging the standardized test scores just barely into acceptable. The host school students thought the science academy students were pompous assholes, the science academy students thought the regular students were stupid. The freshman had their own wing, brand new, constructed during the school year with much noise and dust and inconvenience. Everyone hated the fish.

I personally witnessed at a minimum of 2 fistfights a semester. There was some dude who yelled sermon through a megaphone from across the street at the students walking to class. The principal threatened to suspend teachers and students for using flash drives (in 2009, mind you) instead of 'approved floppy discs'. Rumor has it someone shot at the school in a drive-by, because several odd portions of brick were hastily replaced.

Not to mention this shenaniganry about the football players blindsideing a ref and then going on national tv and talking about how unremorseful they are while sounding like absolute idiots.

John Jay c/o 2010 ama.

Lol