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[nikolino840]

I'm watching freaks and geeks

High school Is really like this with your cabinet to put your books in the hall....cheerleaders athlets and sports and the place to eat?

 

[Elektro Demon]

Aren't you from Italy?

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

I grew up on in California, there was like one indoor high school in the area. We didn't use lockers outside of gym lockers

 

[nikolino840]

Aren't you from Italy?

Yes,but Italian schools are not like that..for example.. there's no sport team of the school with a mascot and something similar...and how many hours they stay at school? If they eat there the lessons are in morning and afternoon? 8 hours like in workplaces?

 

[triplestation]

not my high school

only in gym class we only had little square lockers in a fuckin dark secret prison-like doorway

my high school was junior prison

fucken fever dream

but with it came good relationships with some cool bros and some of the most interesting conversations

i remember being in that dark ass sweat ass smelly locker room depressed and wanting to go home

suddenly you hear a dude shout "get yer finger outta there!!!!!!!"

good times

 

[Airola]

Freaks and Geeks is great!

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Freaks and Geeks is great!

I liked it a lot. Been a long time since I watched it.

did you watch the season of Undeclared?

 

[Airola]

did you watch the season of Undeclared?

I didn't know what that is. Had to google it.
At first I wasn't sure if it was ever even shown in Finland but apparently it aired here somewhere around 2002. I kinda recognize its Finnish name but I'm quite sure I never saw even one episode of it.

 

[appaws]

I'm watching freaks and geeks

High school Is really like this with your cabinet to put your books in the hall....cheerleaders athlets and sports and the place to eat?

Pretty much that's how my high school was. Different era though. Everyone had a locker for their books, jacket, skateboard, weed, etc. We got there an hour before class and had breakfast. Poor kids get free breakfast and lunch, but I had to pay. Classes were from 8-3:20. One period was lunch/study hall. Buses left at 3:30, 4:30, or 5:30 to accommodate people who were in sports or clubs after school. Seniors and Juniors could get a parking space if they drove themselves. Underclassmen couldn't, they rode the buses.

We were the Downers Grove North Trojans. We were a rich school so we had every sport imaginable, even things like cross-country skiing.

 

[Sub_Level]

I went to an all-boy high school so my experience may not have been the norm. We would draw penises , flip each others' backpacks inside out, and when the teacher was at the chalkboard sometimes someone would point a laser pointer at the back of their head.

If you took a nap someone would zip tie you to the chair using your belt buckle.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

If you took a nap someone would zip tie you to the chair using your belt buckle.

 

[TrainedRage]

Yes,but Italian schools are not like that..for example.. there's no sport team of the school with a mascot and something similar...and how many hours they stay at school? If they eat there the lessons are in morning and afternoon? 8 hours like in workplaces?

Most public High Schools have students for like 6-7 hours a day. They provide breakfast and lunch (sometimes free if needed) for them. Also most schools have after school clubs, sports and activities. This isn't considered a 'learning' time though.

Students are picked up and dropped off at home by a school bus or drive/walk to school if they can.

Almost every school has a mascot or school nickname.

 

[lock2k]

I'm not an American user ... but Linda Cardellini is such a babe.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

I'm not an American user ... but Linda Cardellini is such a babe.

she's gorgeous

 

[Brian Fellows]

Yes,but Italian schools are not like that..for example.. there's no sport team of the school with a mascot and something similar...and how many hours they stay at school? If they eat there the lessons are in morning and afternoon? 8 hours like in workplaces?

School hours were 8am to 3pm here.

 

[pennythoughts]

went to school from 830 to a little after 3?

I had an earlier period at 7 for theatre.

lockers, cliques, geeks, band, etc. pretty wealthy area so somewhere around 1/3rd of my graduating class did well in school, sports, extracurricular, etc. the better your gpa the better your parking spot as a junior or senior.

most everyone I knew well got into the school of their choice or a good school but I took a different route and enlisted into the army, did some time in there and now when all of my friends are settling into their careers making great pay im just only getting started on my 4 year.

 

[TaySan]

High school sucked.

Middle school even worse

 

[LordKasual]

i remember they had to call the police one day at my middle school because some goons said they were gonna shoot up the school

We had fights like every day, i remember once 2 dudes left blood streaks all over the hallway and one left a fight with a HUGE ass bubble on his head

some kid pulled a butcher knife on another kid in the bleachers one morning, that was fun



high school was pretty goddamn chill, which is surprising considering it was the same kids from my middle school. Guess by the 10th grade none of the shit kids were left.

2 students got caught once having sex in the bathroom

and then a teacher got caught having sex with a student

and then a chick open hand slapped a teacher right next to me in class because he told her to shut up....and that's about it


6/10 would recommend for diploma

 

[teezzy]

I was a burn out who dropped out in 11th grade to smoke pot and get my dick sucked all day by my punk rock gf who had also dropped out

I really felt like I had the world in the palm of my hands then.

I make like 40k a year at a boring office job now. Whatever works

 

[HermitSperg691]

Yall said everything.

I have nothing to share.

 

[womfalcs3]

Yes, OP. It is as you described.

I was a mid-level kid... not immensely popular but not an outcast. Good times. I loved it. Especially the last few months of 12th grade. Just had fun... even in class. Graduation was dope too.

 

[andrespi]

Yes,but Italian schools are not like that..for example.. there's no sport team of the school with a mascot and something similar...and how many hours they stay at school? If they eat there the lessons are in morning and afternoon? 8 hours like in workplaces?

I'm Italian too. It is true that public schools in our country are not like that and very different from american ones, but also in Italy there are some schools (the private ones) who offer something very very similar, like a full-time schedule and in USA-style.

In my school (and I'm talking like 15 years ago in north-east Italy) it was like that and they are still doing it like this to this day (if I'm not wrong from what some friends told me just a few years ago). You had school the whole morning, then 1 hour and half or 2 (can't remember) of break (for lunch and for resting) and then at least 2-3 hours of in the afternoon. You could do some extra-activities (after regular lessons) in the late afternoon, and we had lockers/cabinets for books and notebooks just like american tv shows (each student was assigned one). We also had a big huge cafeteria/dining hall just like usa schools where staff cooked food for lunch and breaks where we used to eat all together.
We also had quite a big emphasis on sports and 3 different "gyms" (2 indoor and 1 outdoor for football) and also an auditorium for music/singing and shows organized by students as optional activities.
I think in Italy that type of school can be found only in private schools. Mine was a "istituto privato paritario" in north-east Italy.

 

[appaws]

I'm Italian too. It is true that public schools in our country are not like that and very different from american ones, but also in Italy there are some schools (the private ones) who offer something very very similar, like a full-time schedule and in USA-style.

In my school (and I'm talking like 15 years ago in north-east Italy) it was like that and they are still doing it like this to this day (if I'm not wrong from what some friends told me just a few years ago). You had school the whole morning, then 1 hour and half or 2 (can't remember) of break (for lunch and for resting) and then at least 2-3 hours of in the afternoon. You could do some extra-activities (after regular lessons) in the late afternoon, and we had lockers/cabinets for books and notebooks just like american tv shows (each student was assigned one). We also had a big huge cafeteria/dining hall just like usa schools where staff cooked food for lunch and breaks where we used to eat all together.
We also had quite a big emphasis on sports and 3 different "gyms" (2 indoor and 1 outdoor for football) and also an auditorium for music/singing and shows organized by students as optional activities.
I think in Italy that type of school can be found only in private schools. Mine was a "istituto privato paritario" in north-east Italy.

So how are public schools different?

 

[TrainedRage]

Sadly if you look into the education system in the US it was made in the 1900's to get children ready to work long hours in factory type job settings. Kids are sitting in class about 6 hours out of the 7 they are at school. They only get like a 30 min lunch and about 5-10 min between classes in order to get to the next one.

This "factory" style type of education is outdated and IMO should be changed into a STEM (science, tec, engineering, math) or IEP (Individualized Education Plan) type of system. Some schools are trying to stray from the factory style but unfortunately many of those schools are private "arts" schools that cost about as much as college.

If kids could have a bigger choice and voice in the education they get and the schedule that fits them best I think it would be a good start.


To the OP, Freaks and Geeks is a pretty good representation of American high school in the 80s-90s. The clique culture and little groups of people fighting for popularity is pretty accurate to this day.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

I've never seen the show, but just checked a couple of clips on YouTube and it looks fairly representative of how high school was (albeit dramatized) for me. Then again, I was in high school in the late 90s ~ early 2000s, so I'm not sure exactly what it was like in the 80s.

 

[TrainedRage]

I've never seen the show, but just checked a couple of clips on YouTube and it looks fairly representative of how high school was (albeit dramatized) for me. Then again, I was in high school in the late 90s ~ early 2000s, so I'm not sure exactly what it was like in the 80s.

More denim and cigarettes. Bigger hair.

 

[Grinchy]

If you want to see a realistic depiction of what high school is like in the US, watch Saved By the Bell

 

[Deleted member 17706]

More denim and cigarettes. Bigger hair.

Reminds me of that "last day of high school" video from the late 80s that was circulating the net a couple of years ago. I just checked YouTube and couldn't find the specific one, but there appear to be tons of videos documenting last days of the school year throughout the 80s and 90s.

 

[Mr. Blonde]

If you want to see a realistic depiction of what high school is like in the US, watch Saved By the Bell

Or Mean Girls for what it's like for girls hahaha

 

[andrespi]

So how are public schools different?

In Italy public schools certainly don't have individual lockers for students 99% of the time. Most of them also don't have big dining hall, at best they have a very small stand or bar where you can grab sandwiches and small snacks for the mid-morning break (at 10:30 a.m. if I don't remember wrong).

Especially since you have lots of homework to do everyday (at least 1 or 2 hours of homework at home per day and I'm being generous, usually it would be a lot more) in the afternoon at home, so you have to carry back home your stuff (books and notebooks). So it wouldn't make sense to have individual lockers where to leave your stuff at school. Many public schools wouldn't also have the space to accomodate lockers for each student.

In mine instead (which was private and quite an exception here in italy) we did 80% of our homework inside school in the afternoon.

Nearly all of of them don't have proper auditoriums and they certainly don't have student clubs that organize events, shows or music.

Also students don't stay inside schools at late afternoon. usually they go back home at 12:30 or in certain selected days at 1 or 2 pm (and this doesn't always happens; mostly in the last two years when there are more weekly hours and even then only in 2 or 3 days of the week not everyday) with no real lunch break; thus they don't have break for lunch, you eat at home usually when you go back. They have a small 15 minute break for snacks at 10:30 am usually and then another one (still 15 minutes) for those days when they stay till 1 or 2 pm. You then eat proper lunch after you go back home.

They certainly don't stay till 3-4 or 5 pm with optional activities. Usually there aren't any extra optional activities or clubs in the afternoon or at least it's pretty rare.

A few of them don't even have internal gyms and they go to external gyms nearby (with a rented bus) for their physical education, and those public schools who have gyms have 1 at best, usually indoor and I have never seen them having outdoor fields for P.E. or football or outdoor sports (meaning inside the school).

 

[Taxexemption]

Based on the anime I've seen it seems like American and Japanese schools are similar and Italian schools are the oddity you should watch Azumangadiaho. It's a funny/fun depiction of a Japanese high school.