anonrising | 58. How many glasses has Orca had?

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Thank you so much for the detailed answer! It is really helpful!

A haven't heard of Shakespeare classes before, but makes sense to read out loud there (for poetry anyway). Was that a class everone took or could students pick between multiple classes?

Looking at what you and the other replies wrote, dissection seems to be quite common in the USA... I know about a few classes where I live which did dissection (of a cow's eye or a fish iirc) but it's rather uncommon here, and usually voluntary.

You're right, I should keep in mind how huge the USA are and how varying different places can be. I should have rather phrased it "Are there schools in the USA which are in some way [...]" and not compare all schools in the USA to the cliche ones at once... Sorry.

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Students picked between classes, but as we were small, there generally weren't too many options. And people tended to stick together with what they picked. For example, people who weren't going to college only needed three years of science from ninth to twelfth grade, I think? And they could pick from any of the sciences. And people who wanted to push it took the advanced track, where they squished seventh and eighth grade sciences into one year in seventh grade and then took Biology 1 in ninth grade, Chemistry 1 in tenth grade, Biology 2 and Chemistry 2 in eleventh grade (not officially set as AP, but the equivalent of it, considering what those of us who tested got), and Physics in twelfth grade. So I tended to be with a similar group of people. Although some people would take AP English but not the advanced sciences and vice versa.

The Shakespeare class was actually an odd thing. The way my schedule worked out, the only time I could take gym my senior year was ninth period. Gym was only half a year, though, and there was nothing else I could take for the other half of the year. I refused to have a study hall when I could have a class, so I approached a teacher who I liked and who liked me and he was willing to offer a Shakespeare class for me and the five other people who wanted to take it. I really liked that class, even though English was never my strongest suit.

That relates a bit to the question you asked the other anon. In my school, everyone made their own schedules from the classes offered. You had a class, then four minutes to get to the next class. Some of the people were the same from class to class, but you definitely didn't stay together as an official group. (Although there were five to ten of us who tended to take most things together. We only differed generally in the foreign languages we chose (I was the only one of them taking French) and other small things.) This, for me, was seventh to twelfth grade. I think most high schools work similarly instead of having everyone stay in a group.

Interesting. Yeah, at least when I went to school, dissection was pretty standard.

Oh, it totally makes sense. I was just saying that I think that the media people start with cliches from various schools and stick them together. So I'm not sure any one school would be exactly like any media school, but I also think that you would likely find the things at most media schools in at least some of the RL schools. And I find it interesting that a lot of the media schools are so similar considering the diversity of RL schools.

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