What is the story of your school?

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High School: Only high school in my hometown, graduating class of over 1,000 students, when I attended it held over 5,000 students. Common myths were that everyone who attended either had AIDs or had a kid. While I was there, they hired one of LA's top drug cops to be a house principle (three "houses" on campus) and he quit after two years. I heard this story from a family friend who worked at the local juvenile hall.

Pace University: No idea. Just attended class, partied and graduated.

Santa Clara University: Top business school, Steve Nash went here, expensive and one of the oldest colleges around. I know a lot of Bay Area hi tech firm execs are SCU alums.

 

[63dot]

and one of the oldest colleges around

It's the oldest California university or college, 1851, which by California standards is very old. San Jose in the vicinity didn't really grow up until more than 100 years later. Beautiful campus.

The oldest west coast school is Willamette in Oregon founded in 1842

 

[Solemony]

My school starts during the mid-1960's..Not much about the history..Probably not too interesting since my school is pretty boring..

 

[mach42006]

My high school was quite small (graduating class ~100), and there is no unique history behind it that I'm aware of.

College: The college I'm attending was established in 1817. It has the largest living alumni base, including Gerald Ford and Michael Phelps. It was one of the first major universities to admit women, doing so in 1870. In a speech in 1960, John F. Kennedy called it "the Harvard of the West."

It's probably obvious with the Gerald Ford and Michael Phelps clues: The University of Michigan.

 

[0098386]

We had some scandals too. Our form teacher at the time had sent letters to a girl at the school, no idea what they contained but he was sacked. He was an ace form teacher though. Had a spider hanging off his cheek so I raised my hand and told him to which he snapped with "That is NOT AMUSING". Heh. Good times.

And our IT man was having a relationship with a pupil. The buggers.

 

[bartelby]

I forgot to mention the year I started senior school Debee Ashby was expelled.

Ashby became well known at the age of 16 years when she was expelled from King Henry VIII School, Coventry on 16 December 1983 because she had posed topless in her school uniform for the men's magazine Men Only. This got wide attention in the British media, and she was soon posing nude for The Sun, with her mother, Anne Ashby, posing topless.

 

[Marble]

From the wikiP:

"[My former high school] is an accelerated public high school originally known as Special Projects High School (SPHS). Its mission statement identifies it as "a special function high school which serves students who are academically focused and intellectually gifted and provides curriculum and social support not offered in the comprehensive high school.

"The school does not have its own campus, and currently shares a campus with [another high school].

"The school mascot is the penguin. When it was known as Special Projects High School, the mascot was the skunk. Both mascots give the school its colors, black and white."

It sounds like a mental institution, doesn't it? My Unis have pretty standard histories, however.

 

[Oyobiia]

My school opened in 1980.

But in 1992 there was a fire which destroyed most of the building. The school as closed.

1998 the school re-opened

There is about 900 students at the school and 100+ staff

 

[takao]

university: founded 1562 as jesuit school funded by the moeny made from salt mines
1669 ranked university by emperor leopold I.
graded down over the centuries
1826 reestablished as a university