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
― mh, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
SPOILER
"shut up bitch! go fix me a turkey pot pie" iirc
xp
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
we had block scheduling too, tho the 'split the year in two' type
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
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
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― mh, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
horseshoe otm
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
My school was all one building, and it covered K-12.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
OMG that sounds disastrous.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
mine was all one building to, but 5-12. four floors, a roof (where recess was) and a basement.
― dayo, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
To help maybe with the perspective here, my graduating class was 42.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
damn! you win
― mh, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
It's ETHS, which I'm guessing has been surpassed in size since the 80s.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, yeah, thats still huge though. I live about a mile and a half directly south of there.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
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
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, cool. Yeah, I assumed some new schools had come up since then that were the size of malls or something.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
going to school in a mall would be dope
― dayo, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
ha that exists somewhere in canada, let me find the link
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:48 (twelve years ago) 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
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
haha that's like all of my fav-o-rite things
― dayo, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
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
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
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
― dayo, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
16 candles & nat'l lampoon's vacation are pretty nerd victorious I thought.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
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
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:25 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:25 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
I was lucky, I lived next door to my highschool, otherwise I'dve had to take lunch as well I imagine.
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 05:22 (twelve years ago) link
tell me more of these meat pies.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://i33.tinypic.com/2q8658l.jpg
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 06:31 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 08:21 (twelve years ago) link
my h.s. was gargantuan
― I Love Pedantry (D-40), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/5355571.jpg
not pictured: football field, environmental preserve, backup power station
― I Love Pedantry (D-40), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:14 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
I'll put in a guess for rugby?
― beachville, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
What thing on the left exactly?
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
The thing that looks like a football field although without grandstands or goalposts and is surrounded by a track.
― beachville, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 12:40 (twelve years ago) link
okay, wait, I opened that up in a new tab and the yellow thing is a small grandstand
― beachville, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 12:42 (twelve years ago) link
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!)
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
deej is that lane tech?
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
aerial photo of my high school:
http://i.imgur.com/MKIxE.png
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
my high school in Kazakhstan
http://editorial.designtaxi.com/news-biggesttent1207/2.jpg
― job kreaytor (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
Last time I saw mine it looked a bit like this, not exactly though:
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_495/12712618068FuvB8.jpg
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
My HS was tiny. Here's a Google Maps pic of my school, w/features labeled. This held about 500 students total (my graduating class was 120). Note, no football field, despite us having a surprisingly competitive team.
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/4792/oldperryhs.jpg
And here is the crazy K-12 campus they built three years after I graduated, when they were flush with property taxes from the nearby nuclear power plant, taxes that had been abated for the previous 15 years. For reference, the school shown above is at the lower right in this picture.
Also, LOL street names:
http://img848.imageshack.us/img848/1372/newperryhs.jpg
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link