I'm assuming that none of them went on to college. I mean, I only say that because after college, high school is really put in a different perspective that it seems none of these people have. Am I missing something?
shareLooks like it was. It's the high point of many people. After that they go to work, then to the bar or home watch tv, go to bed. It's funny the people that I do know that went to college, most of them were going on their parents dime and said they had no idea what they wanted to do!
Welcome to America. Education is a big business in America. It costs big money and a lot of people aren't able to go. You usually need a parent to co-sign your loans. You usually need you family to help you pay them cause if you don't you will be paying for 20 years unless you go to community college... Tons of college kids are in serious debt for many years to come. Public education in the US is terrible.
I remember on a True Life episode a girl went to New Zealand and the teacher didn't like Americans (the kids claimed) and she asked the kid who just moved their because of her fathers work, "Why is it so difficult to find an intelligent American." Well that's the answer. It costs big money to get a good education and most Americans go to public school like I did, I learned nothing from public high school. I would love to go to college! I tried to twice.
In other countries, education is much cheaper. The most important thing in life is your health and education. Both of which is horrible in the U.S. Both of which are big business in the U.S.
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This was easily the absolute worst HSR ever.
This group of people were easily the worst grouping of former classmates.
The fakeness they displayed was laughable.
Seriously. I have two friends that I would love to "break up" with because
HS is when they peaked. I can't have a normal conversation with one of them
because all she does is rehash highschool. We also hung out AFTER and
had adventures, but I feel like I have evolved and they both would rather
live in 1987.
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Perhaps, and some on the show (and in real life) do seem way to stuck in those 4 years (coincidentally, I graduated in '89 - same as the current group on the show).
I went away to college, with the dorm experience and all, and it was the 4 most fantastic years of my life - intellectually, socially, romantically - everything! Yet, with that said, high school, esp in America, has always been sort of "romanticized" in the movies, etc. Perhaps because no matter where you go, or what generation you even grow up in, those four years can be pretty magical (and perhaps for many, both ends of the spectrum - magical and tormenting, but all worthwhile in the end !).
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well in high school you usually have a small group of people (most mid-sized US city high schools have about 300-400 people in each class) so you become closer to people you're forced to spend four years with. In most state college schools you can have 10,000 or more people in your freshman class so you're more in specialized cliques and often only close to people in your area of the dorm, roommates, people in your specific major, teammates if you're an athlete etc.
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