Why are school's never realistic?

well i took the viral comment as a "we'll do our part of letting this go viral by sharng it with all our contacts"

afair the school had the phones confiscated. so having them all read the articles seemed more likely.


anyhow i sometimes find it hard to get bast 26 year olds playing teenagers and the banging the locker shut and just walk away annoys me even though i've never attended a school with lockers.

i did like the way they worked so many of the modern internet terms in there in ten yrs it will be so funny to be reminded of these sites and how importent they were at the time. :-)

another thing that bugs me. they almost always drive nice cars, have nice computers and limitless cash to do a shopping mall scene. i hate the latter the most.


i liked the movie

i liked that they looked at this owing things that are weird about us :-)

And the rest of the world thinks that American schools are made of cliques (jocks/cheerleaders/emos/geeks/losers) and that they fight each other in shiny and spotless corridors full of size 0 top models making out with Abercrombie models. :)

Because if they were realistic to the vast majority of actual schools, they would be immensely boring.

For me, it's the fact that these teen movies always start off by trying to find some reality in how hard it is to be the "unpopular" one in the class. But the writers always tend to put too much Hollywood in the story, and in the end, there's always just another cheesy "happy ending" that many of us know is NOT how things really end up for the character we can relate to. Yeah, I know people feel that it's necessary to make them turn out like this, but I think the traditional "happy ending" got old years before Clueless. But, that's me. Obviously, I'm in a minority...otherwise these movies wouldn't continue to get made.

I guess you'd know if you're a high school teacher. I think they did ok in portraying high school kids in general. It's kind of hard for me to relate to all that since there were no cell phones when I was in high school. It's a different world. Kids can't even survive these days without those stupid cell phones.