John Hughes films are pretty true, judging by my own experience - their accuracy was what made them so popular. It's a dramatized version, yeah, and all the dull bits have been edited out and everything left has been exaggerated a little, but... yeah.
Cliques at my school weren't quite so starkly black-and-white, but they were a huge presence. Relationship drama was also a daily thing, whether you were personally involved in it or not. Detention wasn't used much (not in my circles, anyway - though some kids had "in-school suspension" all the time), but we had a whole building dedicated to shop classes, lol. As far as teachers v. students, it got much more antagonistic the further down the GPA axis you went... and it went down a long ways. (Some unreasonably large percentage - maybe 25%? - of my class didn't graduate on time, if at all.) Stay classy, South Knoxville!
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Date: 2010-05-26 03:38 am (UTC)Cliques at my school weren't quite so starkly black-and-white, but they were a huge presence. Relationship drama was also a daily thing, whether you were personally involved in it or not. Detention wasn't used much (not in my circles, anyway - though some kids had "in-school suspension" all the time), but we had a whole building dedicated to shop classes, lol. As far as teachers v. students, it got much more antagonistic the further down the GPA axis you went... and it went down a long ways. (Some unreasonably large percentage - maybe 25%? - of my class didn't graduate on time, if at all.) Stay classy, South Knoxville!