What Did Your High School Excel In?

[The Great Escape]

it always seems that individual high schools always have something that they do very well. Better than all the schools in the area, better than most schools in the state. Was it an indvidual sport, marching band, drama, debate, cheerleading, etc. Were you a part of it?

[KitchenWitch]

1. Illegal activities

LOL :smoke:

[hippiechick]

2. Drinking

:beer:

[name not needed]

3. smoking weed

:smoke:

[CO Liberal]

4. Drug Dealing

After all, it WAS 1971.....

:hippie:

[maveric]

76. Mine too. 1970-74

It was definately a party HS!

[DS1]

5. Propping up the Preppies

Anyone that's ever lived near Ridgewood N.J. will agree.

[name not needed]

10. Same for pretty much all of Somerset and Morris Counties, too.

[JimmyJazz]

6. band.

seriously

[evlbstrd]

7. Theatre.

While drinking, smoking and dealing weed.

[northzax]

8. soccer and snobbery

but it was private, after all.

[ET Awful]

9. Mediocrity.

We were the best at it :)

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. academics

I went to an all girls college prep school.

[mhr]

12. Drugs!

eom

[nini]

13. football

lots of pro players and city titles.

[bottomofthehill]

14. Hockey

Matignon High School

[all.of.me]

15. smoking pot and eating acid

both of which i did copiously. what do you expect? it was 1969.

[Atlas Mugged]

16. Beating the crap out of liberals

I should know.

Jocks were gods who could do no wrong, whatsoever.

Fuck you, Western Branch in Chesapeake, VA.

[The Great Escape]

17. Oh, The Bruins...I Remember Them From My Norfolk Days..

have you seen this story

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=77846&ran=45254

[Atlas Mugged]

34. Wow...thanks

That would never have happened when I was a kid. The jocks were totally faultless. And 'initian' was a right. I'm surprised that the article said it had gotten "worse" in recent years - it was a nightmare when I attened and I remember students being hospitalized for broken bones, among other things. Nobody seemed to give a damn - all harmless fun that built "character". I won't go into the sexual assaults in the bathrooms, it was too fucking bizarre.

For the record, I was the first student in the state of Virginia to be expelled for long hair, so that tells you the time frame. Need I explain what was condidered too long at the time?

[Burma Jones]

18. Stunts like streaking

and Vandalism. Also partying. Also Band and Golf.

[MrScorpio]

19. Wildly sexual dances

(it was the 70's after all)

And pregnancies

[Arugula Latte]

20. Bitchy, rich cliques

and excluding those of us who didn't get a BMW for our 16th birthday or come to school every day wearing a brand new outfit from Nordstrom.

[tjwash]

21. Armed forces recruiting.

Lots of cannon fodder walking around the ol' alma mater.

[d_b]

22. Getting stoned

[HughBeaumont]

23. Victimization. And Drug Usage.

They weren't even cool mellow stoners - they were douchebag cokehead stoners. I WISH a Columbine happened at this school - these fuckers deserved it.

[Writer]

24. Academics.

This year, we were listed at #12 on the Newsweek "Best High Schools" list.

[AndyTiedye]

25. They Had Delusions of Adequacy in Several Sports

I had no such delusions, myself.


I'm sure I'm the only one of their graduates to go to MIT.

[5thGenDemocrat]

26. Saginaw (MI) Arthur Hill HS (1973)

The only high school football team in Michigan history to go undefeated, untied and unscored-upon (9-0, 432-0).
Though we've produced a few major jocks (Jason Richardson of the Golden State Warriors for one), we are also the alma mater of one of America's greatest poets -- Theodore Roethke.
DUers Vince3 and MSchreader are also Arthur Hill grads. Go Lumberjacks!
John
It is now 38 days, 19 hours and 25 minutes to FUNDAY. All Lumberjacks, Saginaw High Trojans and those from outside The Center of the Universe (Saginaw) are cordially invited to attend.

[ucmike]

27. track, and getting college acceptances.

if you applied they counted it as accepted, i think. i told them i had no interest in college and they made me apply to a bunch of schools anyway. i told them i'd prefer a small college near home (nj). so they got me applications to a florida tech college and clemson. you couldn't go to a school event without some admin saying something about the 98% college entrance rate. it was funny, because none of my friends went to college, about a dozen kids. that was enough to throw off the 98% because of the small size of our school.

they had absolutely no interest or time if you said "i want to be a carpenter".

[NewJeffCT]

28. basketball (boys)

Despite being one of the smallest high schools, studentwise, we made it to the state championship game my junior and senior years, and they won it all back-to-back when I was in 6th & 7th grade.

Unfortunately, in my junior year, our star player was practically on his deathbed with illness and was a shadow of his normal self in the final game, so we lost by 4 to a team we had beaten by 22 earlier in the year.

[calico1]

37. I am from your neck of the woods. Which HS

did you go to? Fitch?

[NewJeffCT]

41. no, closer to Hartford

I think Fitch is/was a bigger class school than my old school in Cromwell.

[calico1]

42. Oh, for some reason I thought you were from

New London County.

[NewJeffCT]

47. not quite

I moved east of the river last year, but was in Newington for almost 7 years before that & grew up in Cromwell.

[SarahB]

29. An abundance of irritating dudes with Iroc-Zs and too much cologne.

:eyes:

[curse10]

30. girls basketball and academics

one year our football team did passably. But they still threw the most money at them. Fuckin' football players.

[GumboYaYa]

31. Music, debate and academics.

I went to an inner city Magnet School that had a very strong jazz program. Our jazz band was ranked best in the country my senior year. Many of my peers have gone on to highly successful careers in the music business. Some of the musicians to come out of my school include Brian Blade (one of the top jazz drummers in the world), Tom Drummond (bass player for Better than Ezra), and Kenny Wayne Sheppard.

Our debate team was one of the top ranked teams. The debaters won the National Championship at least one of the years I was in high school and were among the top three or so every year.

My school also had more National Merit Semifinalists than any other school in the state and was among the top five nationally in National Merit semifinalists. Part of the reason for that succes is that the school draws the top students from the entire area.

[Left Is Write]

32. Hockey.

Sometimes football, but not the years I was there.

[sir_captain]

33. Getting the students into ivies

Not much else, really.

[flamingyouth]

35. Auto shop.

[enigmatic]

36. The best herb in town!

Heh.

[Nikia]

38. Girls Volleyball and BB

When I was in school anyway. I did not participate in either of them although I was invited to join the basketball team my sophomore year. We had several state appearances and D1 scholarship athletes. Unfortunately, when they lost their legendary coaches, they lost their top rate teams. The basketball coach really ticked me off though because he quit to coach boys basketball at another school. The paper quoted him as saying that he always wanted to move up to boys basketball. Although I know that the average boys team could beat the average girls team, I think that was a rotten thing to say considering the level the girls who he had coached.
I ran track and cross country instead. I was the best in my events. It took a few years before they had excellent teams. One of the "little girls" who was 3 state teams even wrote to me saying that my team mate, who also had a good running career, and I had been an inspiration to her and some of the other girls.

[Nailzberg]

39. Losing at football.

Seriously, those guys were so bad, USA Today reported my school had the 5th worst H.S. football team in the nation. After winning their first game in several years, the headline in the Chicago Tribune sports section was "Schurz Loses to State's Worst Team!" Didn't even give our school props.
We had a good soccer team, though. And our cheerleaders were awesome.

[GalleryGod]

40. War

:shrug:

[Ann Arbor Dem]

43. Skiing...

Both men's and women's teams have been (and are) consistently hot on the slopes.

[newfaceinhell]

44. academics, soccer and destroying self-esteem

[enigmatic]

45. Being an Outcast's Outcast...

But that was cool; I liked going my own way anyway..

[Patiod]

46. Girls swimming and over-the-top bar/bat mitzvahs

At one point in the late 70's, we had the best public school girls swimming team in the country, as determined by Swimmers World magazine (except Mission Vieho, which is almost a magnet school for swimming)

And the bar mitvahs? Well, one guy in my class had the band "Chicago" play at his. Not a cover band, and not when they were coming up or on their way out. Chicago at the peak of their early 1970's "Saturday in the Park" popularity. Everyone who was invited wore a Chicago t-shirt to school the following Monday with "Danny Stein's Bar Mitzvah" and the date.

[Arugula Latte]

69. That is hilarious!

I think there's a movie script in that ... sorta along the lines of "Dazed and Confused" but for wealthy non-goys. ;)

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

48. Music n/t

[bleedingheart]

49. Teen Pregnancy!

When I was in high school it was called Maternity Hill.

This was a middle class community...and most of those gals were either married off or their moms raised the kids while they finished high school.

[jmm]

61. Sounds like my high school, except for gals being married off

My high school had a 20% pregnancy rate and a day care.

[noonwitch]

50. Sports, music and academics

Sports-we had a great hockey team that dominated state-wide. Our basketball and football teams were always competitive and we won our share of district championships. We also made it to the state semi-finals in football my junior year (1980), where we got killed by Dearborn Fordson.

I was in Orchestra, and we were a top-rated orchestra. We always received top ratings at the festivals, and were very highly ranked one year in the state festival. More kids from my school were in the city-side orchestra that you had to audition for than from any other school around. Our band was good, but our director at the time was a dick.

We had good academics, even if they had to compete with football for funds. My dad started an academic boosters club there the year after I graduated, he was so disgusted with the imbalance (he sold janitor supplies to the district and attended board meetings). I had some great teachers at my high school, even if they had to use old textbooks so that the football field could get new stands, or if they needed to rent a helicopter to dry off the field after a rainy day, to avoid cancelling a game.

[Reverend_Smitty]

51. Baseball...

we had a few state titles when I was there, a couple of our pitchers got drafted. Our ace had the most wins in either county or state history, I'm not sure about that one.

we also had a great basketball team for a few years as well, the star of that that team is currently playing in the NBA.

Oh yeah and soccer, we had some really good soccer teams over the years (girls and boys), state champ caliber teams. The past few years (after I left) the softball team has done really well too.

[BreweryYardRat]

52. My school (which I will be gone from as of May 21st)

excels in sports (bleah) and preppies (double bleah). So glad I'm going to be out of there.

[SOteric]

53. Debate, Latin and Classical Studies

[tsakshaug]

54. progressive academics, cross country running

the cross country team was undefeated in the regular season for 10 years or so.

academicly they were doing things 30 years ago that are considered experimental now. Indisciplinary studies, lots of choices for PE and JR & Sr english. sort of neat.

[hopein08]

55. Going broke... (funny & sad story)

my high school went broke and had to take donations of yellow computer paper from the local paper plant b/c the school was out of paper! We also had a neat experiment with substituting bags of milk instead of those little cartons of milk at lunch. To many people would step on them and explode them so that didn't last long. Oh, and the Health Department condemned the lunch trays my senior year but a renovation was scheduled for the next year so it was okay. The renovators ran out of money and couldn't finish the roof, don't know what happened with the trays. Once, during a heavy rain storm, all second floor classes were moved to the first floor because they were worried the roof would fall in.

I was class of 2000 at Iroquois High School in Erie, PA.

[Jamastiene]

56. bouncy the ball

football to be exact. Our high school seems to always win and heaven help you if you dare act like you don't care about the Raiders. You will be lamblasted as almost pure evil. Raiders fans are rabid, I tell ya. They cannot understand how someone could possibly not care who wins the bouncy the ballgame...

[Worst Username Ever]

57. Both Girl's and Boy's hockey won state this year. First time in state

history that they came from the same school.

[MissMillie]

58. hiring teachers who were good at deflating students' self-esteem

oh yeah, and track

[Lucky Luciano]

59. We were always pretty amazing at Lacrosse

Almost always in the state semi-fianls, and more likely in the finals....won a few of the championships too (Over a 15 year period).

[xmas74]

60. STD's

(not kidding-at one point my town had the highest rate in the state) and producing assholes.

[LeftyMom]

62. Mediocrity

Well, we were competitive in some things, girl's basketball and non-athletic competitions. The football team perpetually blows though, because the student body is largely southeast asian and there just aren't enough large people to constitute a decent team. The few decent-sized people manage to inter-district transfer to the one of the nearby high schools, since two of them have really good programs.

[_testify_]

63. funneling graduates into the FBI and CIA

seriously.

We also have had a number of professional MLB and NBA players.

[deadparrot]

64. Academics.

Tied for highest average ACT in the city.

We also won state in volleyball three years in a row, but it's definitely known for its academic rigor.

[bertha katzenengel]

65. Yelling "DISCO SUCKS!" Bitchy stuck-up girls. Ignorant, asshole jocks.

A fabulous a capella choir.

And not much else.

[bigwillq]

66. Football

My HS holds the record for most state titles and state title and playoff appearances. :bounce:

Sports was big at my HS but we had a lot of clubs too. Academics wise, it was just average.

[TrogL]

67. Wrestling and Science club

No, I don't want to talk about the wrestling :scared:. Maybe in a few years.

There was a group of four of us who :scared: the science teacher. 3/4 of the time he had no idea what we were talking about.

I turned in a physics project. He gave it back with an A+ saying "I can't mark this. I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm not even sure it's physics."

[Mutley]

68. Cows

It was called Hereford High School. For those of you who don't know this is a Hereford:

[TheMightyFavog]

70. Wrestling.

Coleman High School, Coleman WI is famous for its great wrestling team.

[Aristus]

71. Swimming.

Lakes High School, in Lakewood, Washington, went to State Swim Championships nearly every year for the period before, during, and after I attended. There was a bit of a controversy my sophomore year when the swim team recruited a world-class swimmer from the high school down the road (but in another district). We went to State that year, and the other high school always swore it was because of "their" swimmer.

[Dukkha]

72. getting knocked up

The yearbook could've had a prego club photo

[TK421]

73. Bullying

:eyes:

[taught_me_patience]

74. 4th in the nation in athletics!!!!

http://starbulletin.com/2005/05/11/news/index2.html


that and sending people to college.

[miss_kitty]

75. Bullies, snobs and bullshit.

Really. Ended up being a topic for one of the last Donahue shows-Shorecrest STILL SUCKS!