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http://www.evergreen.k12.oh.us/hsweb/hs.html

This is the high school i went to. It was completed about 4 years ago (we moved into the building over thanksgiving break my freshmen year). We just had a lot of work done in our district. We had the high school built and the old one was renovated and turned into the new middle school. The old middle which had a fire problem shortly after everyone moved out (suspected arsen but no one charged). That building was sold to kent state or some college for $1 (I am not kidding). Then the new elementary was built and opened autumn 04. It combined two elementary schools in the district so it is fair big. Now we have pretty much all new buildings. The HS was finished in 2001, elementary in 2004, and the MS is a 1965 building that was renovated from top to bottom. Now all buildings have air conditioning, white boards, most have tv's, and all have a mac computer for the teacher.

All the schools are macs but most still run OS 9, but i was talking to the tech admin who i am friends with anf he said that they got an xserver in and are moving the computers over to OS panther/tiger (can remember which) this summer along with installing another 2 xserver's. One for the MS and one for Elementary.

Check out the website.
 
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Sheesh, CompUser, you sure that isn't 500600? :eek:

We're 700 students (I can't find any other pics off hand)

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And this is the front of the Girls (yes, it does look a lot like a prison)

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ugh. this is the only picture I can find of it. anyway, here it is. this is the back entrance that no one uses 'cause it's....in the back.

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&&&& I don't go to school to take pictures of it sooo yah.
 
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Thats the only thing I could find on my school.
But that building is pretty new like 4 years old. The rest of it is pretty crappy (alot of the classrooms smell and the air conditioners never works). But I still love my school!
 
Ntnu / Nust

I went to NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) in Trondheim, Norway. The main building is the grey one in the background. The campus is spread out behind it and the taller white building is part of it. The red building in front is the main student society building.

CompUser, could you try to make your images smaller, fewer or thumbnail them, please?
 

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That's the art gallery. If you go through the guy's pics, you can see the rest of his senior show. (He's one cool guy.)


The recital hall.


We have these things called happenings. They are basically a variety show that goes on at lunch.
And on fridays we don't have happenings, the DJ team plays music and friday lunch is a dance party. Well.. dance party, when everyone watches the freshmen make fools of themselves or you go with your friends and just be absurd. When "My humps" came on, it was so crowded. Some people were there because they like the song (WTF?!? :confused: ) and others were there, just to have fun with friends. :p

Here, you can see the checkered floor, as from the counter in the anteroom to the computer lab. THE WHOLE SCHOOL has this checkered floor, save classrooms. It's great.

The attached pics: 1. The outside of the school. It's a giant cube. NO WINDOWS. Seriously. None. At all. Whatsoever. It could probably withstand a bomb. (I'm not inviting it)

#2. The senior awards ceremony. Every year, the seniors all get on stage, and everyone else sits in the audience. Awards are handed out. Some Dancers get the "golden plunger" award for community service with children through dance (it's a whole routine they have...). All the seniors make INSANE signs and hold them up. There's a librarian who always hands out candy, roaming, yelling "candy tine!! CANDY TINE!!", so there's always a sign for her. It's nutty and fantastic and fun. Everyone cheers and has a good time, and it's one of those "magical PVA moments". Fitting 155 people and a podium onto a stage built for not much more than a jazz combo, and then having them stand up to get their awards. It's pretty sweet. It's the friday before graduation.
We always end early, so the principal just dismisses school early.
He does that A LOT.
He comes on the PA before a 3 day weekend or spring break and says "Hey guys.. I hope you have a safe, fun weekend. If it's OK with your teachers, I'll just dismiss y'all now." and usually everyone is already out of the room by the time he's said "weekend" :)
One of the characteristics of PVA is that the principal releases us early on weekends, just because we're so cool. It's slightly legendary.

#3. The commons. Usually there are a few more of the blue tables out, but they were all folded up. The doors lead to the main theatre. You'd think that since we're a performing and visual arts school, it'd be good enough for concerts? No... The symphony barely fits on stage, and the room is DEAD acoustically. We always go out to Grace Presby for concerts. (The band does it in there, however. Dead sound helps them... ZING!)

Uhh.. that's PVA. It smells, it's moldy, it's TOO SMALL, the practice rooms are used for gettin' it on, so no one ever goes in them. The pianos are in a state of constant disrepair, room 101 (rehearsal hall) is so small the symphony can barely fit in there, and there are NO WINDOWS.. AGH!
Illnesses travel from department to department. It usually goes art -> theatre -> dance -> vocal -> instrumental. You can chart it from the time the art department starts to get sick, to when the symphony does. It takes about 3 weeks.
 

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greatdevourer said:
Sheesh, CompUser, you sure that isn't 500600? :eek:
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Yea, there are less than 15,000 people in my town. There are about 20 kids "imported" from hartford to make the school more diverse. Its a large school, but its only 500-600 people. There are 6 math class rooms, 6 language class rooms, 6 science labs, 7 english classrooms, 7 world civ class rooms, 6 computer labs, 1 media center, 2 gyms +weight room, 2 art rooms, and 1 auditorium (I think its about that).
 
floriflee said:
His kind of school is what happens when you live in an area with money.... :rolleyes:
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It's not even about that. It's about need. It blows my mind when people think that one dollar goes as far in an urban distrcit as it does in a suburban district. It costs more to educate students in the city -- but until people admit that, we'll just keep scuffling along with dramatic inequality.

We pretend we're in this democracy, and look at the way we're educating that democracy. Look at the advantages of certain citizens over other citizens in something as fundamental as access to literacy. Who are we preparing as leaders, who are we preparing as voters, and worse, who are we preparing (implicitly) as prisoners? More simply: If the schools look this different, imagine the differences in the expectations of the teachers.

I'm glad your school is so beautiful, and I'm glad you have such a wonderful library, CompUser. I wish there was a school exchange program -- so my kids could see what education looks like for you, and so that the students at your school could see the day to day reality for so many urban kids.
 
Everett High School

From 1910 to the 70/80/early 90's to now.

This is the main building and the school is an open campus. There is no fence to keep in/out people. The public can walk right across the school as it sits between several streets.
 

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I attend a private international school in Munich, Germany.
The school I would say is above the average American High School but we lack the few things such as a pool and personal laptops but apart from that its not bad.

Our school is pretty good, I am not sure though if we are allowed to take pictures on the grounds for security reasons.

So I have the virtual tour.....

http://www.mis-munich.de/virtual_tour/virtual_tour.html
 
The hallway picture in compUser's school looks like a prison.


RHS:
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CompUser said:
~IMAGE OF: *MOST AWESOME SCHOOL EVER! (for only 500-600 people?!)*~
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My school looks (and was) built in the 16th century so it looks a bit different to that thing! It's all old and erm - pretty...but unfortunately VERY impractical! All of the rooms are too small and the music and drama studios are well - "lacking" fortunately we just bought up some land and are getting all new rooms! :D (the old stuff is being turned into a sixth form centre for us old kids :D)

Uber

EDIT: Oh and there is a 60's tower block on the site too. It's U G L Y! (If you aren't from the UK you won't have a clue to the disgustingness of this monstrosity I would assume)
 
UberMac said:
MY GOD! Do all American schools look like these?! They're...huge! I feel so cheated :mad: :eek:
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no, they don't. i went to some mighty fine schools and even i was taken aback by some of these photos.
 
UberMac said:
MY GOD! Do all American schools look like these?! They're...huge! I feel so cheated :mad: :eek:

Uber
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Most new ones do...


but a lot of them I've been to leak like hell because they get like...a 60 trillion dollar building to be built for 10 dollars.

EDIT: except mine...we have to pay for our own text books, & stuff like that. you start out the school year by jsut paying $200 for 'school & teaching supplies'. so some of the money we pay goes to school maintenence & they also get their money from tax.


is all this legal?
 
thedude110 said:
It's not even about that. It's about need. It blows my mind when people think that one dollar goes as far in an urban distrcit as it does in a suburban district. It costs more to educate students in the city -- but until people admit that, we'll just keep scuffling along with dramatic inequality.

We pretend we're in this democracy, and look at the way we're educating that democracy. Look at the advantages of certain citizens over other citizens in something as fundamental as access to literacy. Who are we preparing as leaders, who are we preparing as voters, and worse, who are we preparing (implicitly) as prisoners? More simply: If the schools look this different, imagine the differences in the expectations of the teachers.

I'm glad your school is so beautiful, and I'm glad you have such a wonderful library, CompUser. I wish there was a school exchange program -- so my kids could see what education looks like for you, and so that the students at your school could see the day to day reality for so many urban kids.
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We have a couple programs actually, they have students from hartford come to our school, it is called "project choice". Unfortunately a great percentage of these students don't try at all academically, don't participate in school clubs and athletics (they have a 2nd bus for students that want to do sports, clubs, etc), and a lot of them get into trouble frequently.

There is also a thing where students from a school with few white people come to our predominantly white school (there are about 3 asian kids & 3 black people that live in our town that are in the entire high school). Students from our school go to the predominately black school. They usually do the switch once a month for 1 day.
 
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