Writer's Block: Back to School
All I can think of is Ridgemont High. I kind of went to a high school like that, only on the east coast. We did order pizza to american history once. There was a pizza joint next to the HS. You could also see the ocean from the school, albeit faintly. The school was built on a ridge and the buildings/corridors were oriented east/west. Walking east
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I would also say some version of Ridgemont; except a mid-American city version that was from a decade or so earlier in time. My high school was the largest and most integrated in the state; in the days of the civil rights movement of the late 60s and continuing into the very early 70s when I graduated.
I was maced in the hallways; involved in a full-blown senior class walk-out protest; saw a guy at my lab table with a loaded gun (he ended up expelled); had football games moved to mid-day to avoid race riots; had my entire senior class called into the gym and locked in with city police guarding each exit while the administration worked trough racial issues; and had many drug dealing friends and had access to all the booze I wanted, while working late-night at Arby's on school nights.
Nothing in that movie was news to me, as I'd lived all but the sex scenes (except of course, in my dreams). If I combine Fast Times and Teachers; it is a pretty good composite of my high school experience.
I'd prefer to never get close to a high school again. Been there; done that; survived. Yep, I'm REALLY old.
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