Question for People who Attend/Attended a Christian High School

Yeah, I think the movie didn't really show all that many people who just had a passive interest in their own religion. It focused more on the extremes of believers and unbelievers. In any school like that, one would imagine the majority of students would be there because their parents signed them up. Not because they're so enthusiastic about Christianity themselves.

I went to a Catholic high school and it wasn't really like it is in the movie, though I do understand the sects are different. I grew up Christian and I wasn't offended at all, in fact I agreed with most of it. When I saw the part where Hilary hucks the bible at Mary while screaming about being filled with Christ's love all I could think of was people who blow up abortion clinics to send a message that killing unborn children is bad, hypocrisy much? But sadly, a lot of the Christian faith is like that. They preach love and kindness, yet a good hunk (definitely not all) are close-minded hypocrites. It's just sad because it explains why so many people want nothing to do with religion anymore.

"I don't think I could stab somebody, cause I'm really bad at a Capri Sun."

I've attended several Christian schools when I was younger, and one of them was exactly how the movie described. This particular one was more concerned with teaching the bible and beliefs more than it was a school. It was very close to the one in the movie, scary close.

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I currently teach at a Christian High School, and they are not as extreme as in the movie. They do prayers every morning, and if a holiday comes around they do have mass, but they are quite easy going. Their health classes include sex education, the is the gay/lesbian student association (although I believe it's called "acceptance" club) and biology classes teach evolution. From what I understand, the other Christian high school in the area is quite the same: easy going.

I went to Catholic high school. We started the day with a prayer and we had one religion course every semester, but Catholics don't use the Bible very much at all. For most of us, we'd had eight years of Catholic grammar school and our text for all religious instruction was the Baltimore Catechism, which spelled out all of the tenets of Catholicism in a Q&A format. We learned a number of Bible stories but none of us used the Bible at all.

We wore uniforms and it was girls-only (that has since changed), and if you wanted to participate in 'church work' there were probably student groups for that, but I never belonged to any of them and neither did most of the other girls I knew.

"Getting saved" wasn't really a concept in my high school.
We had all been baptized as infants, so we were all technically "saved". But in order to stay that way, we still had to live good lives, etc.
It was nothing like American Eagle. I went to HS in the late 1960s, so I imagine my old HS is even less like American Eagle now. It's changed its name and gone co-ed, but it's still a Catholic school.

It's interesting to read the other, more current, perspectives here.



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I went to a Christian junior high and it was exactly like this movie.

Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?

I went all the way 1-12 through a private Christian uniformed school. An though a tad more melodramatic (no one ((inside)) graffitied the school) it wa spot on.

Lots of hating on gays, kicking out pregnant girls. No sex education beyond abstinance. No guidance councilor, and a complete separation between the "proper" Christians, and those who need a "wake up call" *ahem me ahem* lol

If showed our chapels (right up to the fake raising of arms) down to the creationism posters. To a T

It was strange to watch but also interesting, my school had a principle from hell itself so ours was much stricter and hardnoar about keeping up reputation and such. (I was suspended for mentioning I was angry on Facebook during school hours, on my own device because it could "reflect badly on the school")

I could relate really well with this movie :) not too "Hollywood" in my opinion.

I went to a private Christian school in the mid 90's that was much more uptight and extreme than the one in this movie. Watching the movie I could not believe what I was seeing. I thought the filmmakers must have loosened it up and made it seem more relaxed for the sake of the viewing audience.

First off we never would have had any music in the school that sounded remotely like rock or pop, even if it was Christian. They thought we should never associate ourselves with things "of the world" so anything secular was forbidden.

Dancing was considered sinful. There were no school dances or proms. Even if there had been, girls would not have been allowed to wear strapless or sleeveless dresses like the girls in the movie were wearing. Girls were also not allowed to wear jeans or shorts. Skirts had to come to at least the middle of the knee.

I don't even want to think about the things they taught us there because I have worked hard to put all of it out of my mind. It was like being brainwashed.

We had regular bible classes and chapel services. There was lots of talk about being saved, giving your life to the lord and pledging celibacy until marriage. And they would also try to scare us with talk about the end of the world. There was a group of students who went out to witness to people in public and hand out religious tracts.

No one would have gotten away with smoking anywhere on the school premises. Gay students didn't get sent away. One gay student committed suicide.

Watching this movie I just kept wondering, are there really any Christian schools like this?? It seems much more secular and progressive than the one I went to. I thought the filmmakers skimmed over how damaging schools like this can be and made it seem like a joke.