There’s something eternally captivating about American high schools. The unparalleled level of drama, the personalized lockers, the crushes and the enemies, the cheerleaders and football players, the good teachers and the bad ones, and of course, the highly anticipated prom night that is the quintessential moment marking the end of an era known as American adolescence.
But have you ever wondered how much exactly this cliche picture of American sophomore year is true? What if in reality, Mean Girls, Juno, and Superbad were nothing more than Hollywood fiction that masterfully manipulated our sense of nostalgia?“How true are ‘American high school movies’ compared to real-life high school?” people immediately took the opportunity to share their experiences.I remember one time in school, I was walking down the hall with my books in my arms.
In a movie, everyone would point and laugh. In movies, that sort of obvious bullying of a nerd would be treated as funny and normal. In reality, the other kids gasped, and a few random kids stopped and helped me gather up my things. I remember one girl saying,"That was so mean."