LONG DUK DONG

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?

aerial photo of my high school:

http://i.imgur.com/MKIxE.png

my high school in Kazakhstan

http://editorial.designtaxi.com/news-biggesttent1207/2.jpg

Last time I saw mine it looked a bit like this, not exactly though:

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_495/12712618068FuvB8.jpg

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

my high school is now a middle school (and has an Olympic-sized pool, lol)

do they keep the middle school in the Olympic-sized pool?

lol

there's an entire athletic wing with the pool and a bazillion basketball courts, next to the 300 seat auditorium

most of the classrooms are in a square with an open courtyard (I think there were 3 floors? someone else remind me) with the industrial/agricultural arts wing in a separate building off to the side past the cafeteria

deej is that lane tech?

I won't out deej's high school unless he wants to, but nope its not lane tech.