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Best High School pranks
Inlander:
I went to a school called Narrabundah College in Canberra (the Canberra secondary education system is split into two types of school, high schools and colleges, but that's another story). Narrabundah College was what I guess in the US you'd call a "liberal arts" school or something. It had trimesters instead of semesters - so six terms in a year rather than 4. Students were encouraged to call teachers by their first names. Everyone smoked lots of pot. It was a great place.
Anyway in Australian high schools there's a tradition at the end of the school year called "muck up day" where the kids basically pull all sorts of pranks. When I was at Narrabundah College some kids tried to light a bin on fire in the quadrangle or something and there was a stern note in the school newsletter the next day saying that Narrabundah College had no tradition of muck-up day and that if anything like that happened again they might cancel the school formal (that's Australian for prom).
So I don't have any stories about high school pranks. I did, however, go to an awesome school in the best public education system in Australia.
Barmymoo:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 19 Oct 2010, 05:47 ---so six terms in a year rather than 4.
--- End quote ---
Really? That's crazy! I'd never really heard of semesters before but I thought there are usually just two - one from about August/September til Christmas, and one from January til June. Am I way off here?
I have three terms a year, two eight week ones and one seven week one. Then more than half the year is holiday. We don't really have time for pranks here :( But I loved that video of the senior prank where they just kept crossing the road for ages.
Inlander:
Okay, well, for starters in Australia the school year follows the calendar year (our summer holidays are also our Christmas holidays!). Typically the school year is divided into two semesters, with a two-week winter holiday between them. Classes last for a semester - so students have two suites of classes per year, one in each semester. Each semester is sub-divided into two terms, with a two-week holiday between them (but you have to do assignments for class in those holidays. Boooo!).
So at Narrabundah, pretty much until the year after and my classmates left there (I graduated in 1997), instead of two semesters there were three trimesters, meaning three suites of classes per year.
Barmymoo:
Ah, I see. We have the three-trimester system in schools up to university level, but they're called terms and the holiday in the middle is the half term holiday.
Christmas in summer must be weeeeirrrrd. What does it leave you with to look forward to?
Inlander:
When you have Christmas in the middle of summer you don't need anything else to look forward to.
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