LONG DUK DONG

there was like a science building

We only had one floor, no pool, no courtyard, no fancy entrance, no auditorium, and nobody hung around outside except in the parking lot. I feel cheated.

we had 6 buildings. 3 of them, 60s or 70s pre-fabs, were 3 stories. total shithole tho.

I'm guessing bender comes from a broken family

my high school: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_High_School_(Des_Moines,_Iowa)

tbf I spent half my time at a magnet school for AP classes and some vocational-type ones

SPOILER

"shut up bitch! go fix me a turkey pot pie" iirc

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we had block scheduling too, tho the 'split the year in two' type

Facebook friends have confirmed it: my high school had two storeys + a basement. (This sums it up: large multistory brick building. Looks a bit like a factory or something.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merivale_High_School

The magnet school I went to was a factory! They finally did a lot of renovations in the last few years that make it look a little less so, but it was originally a Ford factory, then a small aircraft factory before later becoming the technical high school in the 60s.

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My school was all one building, and it covered K-12.

OMG that sounds disastrous.

mine was all one building to, but 5-12. four floors, a roof (where recess was) and a basement.

Haha, the high school was a two-story wing about 100' long. The grade school (K-6) was your fairly typical one-story brick school building. The junior high wing was basically a hallway connecting the two, with classrooms along one side.

My school was all one building, and it covered K-12.

My school was like that, except it was two large buildings next to each other on a big plot of land. The year I graduated they added a third across the street.

To help maybe with the perspective here, my graduating class was 42.

Mine was one of the largest - in terms of physical space, not number of students - in the country (I've heard it's in the top 5). It was built for 6000 students, though that had dipped to around 3000 when I was there. 6 gyms, 2 pools, 4 cafeterias, a field house, an auditorium, and two additional theaters.

damn! you win

Man that sounds like one of the recentish high schools they built out in Naperville that resembles a college campus more than a high school.

Also, our chief rival was the school where The Breakfast Club was filmed (sort of; there was a New Trier East and West, and West was closed/vacant for years, which is where TBC was filmed).

It's ETHS, which I'm guessing has been surpassed in size since the 80s.

Ha, yeah, thats still huge though. I live about a mile and a half directly south of there.

i just started GISing for photos of my high school and found this totally breakfast-club style picture i would like to share with the thread:
http://i.imgur.com/A5C1A.jpg

Oh, cool. Yeah, I assumed some new schools had come up since then that were the size of malls or something.

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going to school in a mall would be dope

ha that exists somewhere in canada, let me find the link

okay I failed at finding it but I know it's in some huge vancouver suburb as part of this train-station/mall complex

haha that's like all of my fav-o-rite things

just finished TBC and I don't think I 'get it' maybe I should have watched it 10 years earlier. probably a catcher in the rye type sitch

dont you

forget about me.

I probably would have liked this movie more if the nerd had done something cool in the end like get laid. oh well I guess nerds always lose, even in john guhhes movies

16 candles & nat'l lampoon's vacation are pretty nerd victorious I thought.

ferris bueller's is the best JH movie by a country mile.

i went to high school with his nieces but this was during the era of "flubber" so it wasn't very cool

It really is a bit of an 80s "had to be there" thing, I think. At least I think so? younger ppl I know never seem to get into it.

I always envied that schools in other countries had cafeterias! We just had a "tuckshop" - a shed out of which they sold crap like meat pies, samdwiches and drinks, and you had to sit out in the concrete playground rain, hail, snow or (40+degC) shine.

...I went home for lunch every day instead.

it took 40 minutes to get home, I took my lunch every day. Four times a year I got to buy a pie from the tuckshop as a treat.

I was lucky, I lived next door to my highschool, otherwise I'dve had to take lunch as well I imagine.

tell me more of these meat pies.

http://i33.tinypic.com/2q8658l.jpg

My senior high school (in Finland the classes that Americans call "junior high" are part of elementary school) had 4 stories and a basement, but it's an old school dating back to the 19th century:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Visit-suomi-2009-05-by-RalfR-054.jpg

As a building, it was a pretty cool place to go to, at least compared to the grey, "modern" concrete school I went to before that:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/5/9574225_1b951278fa.jpg

my h.s. was gargantuan

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/5355571.jpg

not pictured: football field, environmental preserve, backup power station

probably some of the fields are cut out also

Holy shit, that's huge!

What's the thing on the left if it's not a football field?

I'll put in a guess for rugby?

What thing on the left exactly?

The thing that looks like a football field although without grandstands or goalposts and is surrounded by a track.

okay, wait, I opened that up in a new tab and the yellow thing is a small grandstand

That was used for track (obviously), soccer practices/games, and possibly football practice. But the actual football games were played on a separate field in the next block, with grandstands on both sides.

(and apparently, D-40 and I went to the same high school!)

deej is that lane tech?