The Band Is TheLife of Every High School TRUE OR FALSE?
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SHHH! That's a secret. The Band is a secret cabal of talented but twisted students who play musical instruments only as a cover to hide their nefarious activities during sports matches.\n\nSomeone fumbles the ball? It was really the tuba player who put the whammy on him. Someone fail to make the next notch in the high jump? It was due to the cute flute player winking at him just at the wrong time in the jump.\n\nIf the home team loses, it's because the visiting band had stronger Magic and put a curse on the team, making them lose. If the home team wins, it's because the home band is playing special hypnotic music that both encourages the home team to fight, be, be aggressive, be be aggressive and at the same time (if it's a REALLY good band) causes the visiting team to lose all hope and have their strength run out as if water from their very bones.\n\nThe band meets to practice every day, but as they are marching, they are really conjuring up spells, casting charms, practicing whammy moves, and those wrong notes are deadly, let me tell you.\n\nI won't even go into what the drum section can do to you, if you cross them.\n\nOh, they are powerful, powerful indeed.\n\nBeware the band. Be afraid, very afraid.\n\n..or....\n\nthe short answer: TRUE
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What is high school about?\n\nIt really depends on your perspective.  When you are a student, high school is about creating a balance between fun, academics, and status.    It is a zero-sum game, where if you put effort into one, typically you have to take away from another.  It all depends on what your final goal is.\n\nIf you were like me and were a “geek”, your goal probably is to get good grades.  Traditionally, these are the people who end up hating high school but tend to succeed in life.  As much of their effort is spend on grades, their social status really lacks and they don’t have much fun as a result.  On the flip side, these are the ones that people view as a success in life.   I will always remember that I took my ex-fiancée and a friend to Florida for spring break.  My ex had never been to Disney so we went.  I was talking to a guy in line at one of the rides who was an auto worker in Detroit.  When he found out I was in school for Engineering, he told me tales of how much fun high school was and how he would beat on the nerds.  Now those nerds were his rich managers and he was living paycheck to paycheck.\n\nThere are those who spent their time having fun.  This could be sports, drinking, drugs, you name it.  I spent some time with this crowd and I did enjoy myself, but at the end of the day, other aspects of my life suffered.  A lot of this crowd never seemed to leave the town we lived in.  Many have stable jobs, but don’t have the income to afford a really nice lifestyle.\n\nOthers spend time on social status.  These were the popular people who were funny, personable, or beautiful.  This was the hardest group to penetrate and seemed to have the biggest fall from grace after high school.  When they get out into the real world, they get a harsh lesson in reality that no one cares who they are.  They lose their power and are just like everyone else.\n\nSome people were excellent at all three areas.  Some people sucked at all three.  \n\nDepending on where you stand, high school may be a blast or may be the worst 4 years of your life.  Regardless, be prepared for life after high school.  Once you walk the stage and leave those doors, the world doesn’t care what you were, only what you can offer them now.  The geeks tend to go from nobodies to someone important.  The athletic ones tend not to change a whole lot.  As I mentioned, the popular crowd can have a tough time when they realize they have nothing to offer without their “clique”.\n\nIn terms of academics…it isn’t that bad.  It may seem like a lot of work, but in retrospect, the work is pretty easy.  What I did enjoy in HS is the fact that you can learn pretty much whatever you like.  I could take Pre-Calc and woodworking in the same year and not have to worry about what it looks like on my transcripts.\n\nMy advice…just be yourself and take what classes interest you.  To do it all over again, I would spend much more time in auto shop (a very valuable class when you start paying your own bills).  Learning to fix things in shop is very valuable as well (I got to build a race car in a team in college because I learned to acetylene weld in HS not to mention the wood working I learned in HS fixes my house now).\n\nI hope this helps.  Good luck and enjoy the 4 years!  Once it is over, your future is up to you and only you.
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Honestly...I don't think any bands will be remembered. There are too many people in bands now-a-days to even be noticed. Hopefully there will be some good ones though. (FALL OUT BOY!)
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Yes, It's a big drama fight to be the most popular girl.  The whole thing with the "cliques" is true to.  Stuff like that makes it hard for people to get through high school, because they are always worrying about what other people think about them
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Mostly yes.  Their new album is awesome.  It's very creative.  The only reason i say mostly, is because there are some songs i don't like, just like with any other band.  "teenagers"  is my favorite.
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it depends on the area, I went to a highschool for actors, none of us were from the city the school was in and just from the reunion a few months ago, it seems none of us are still in our hometowns... But I did notice alot of the locals from the area that my school was in stayed in their hometowns. Most didn't but they visited. Since I am also an officer for the reunion commitee I also noted that most left for college and stayed where they went to school. Many also went into the miltary and stayed in the state they got out in. Alot of people just moved to where-ever their spouse was from. But, I was a miltary brat, and a theatre major in highschool... I can't be sure if the situation is the same for people from small towns and regular lifestyles.
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Dude, marching band is awesome. At least it was for me. But we did competition. Does your school's band do competition?
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I just recently graduated..... is it popular? I don't know.\nAnyhow, here's the classes.\nThe "losers"/rejects, the goths, the rednecks, smart kids/geeks, band kids, sports stars and their girlfriends, the druggies (which also fit in the last category), skaters and the tough kids.\nI was a highschool band geek and smart kid. Smart kids had a higher social standing (barely) to the banders, bc they could actually be of profit to other social classes.\nI wouldn't change, all my best friends are in my "class" and most people liked me.
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im not sure...i like their music, but not trying to offend anyone but all these little 7th graders are going out any buying "american idiot" and a pair of converse and think that they're punk...it kinda ruins the whole punk scene when its full of abercrombie... sorry if i offended anybody, its just my opinion
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You have to remember you where in high school. All it is is one big popularity contest and most don't know who they are or what they want. You are in the real world now and people are totally different.
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hell no.......nobody cares about the popular kids after high school...its like "where are they now"......who really gives a shit in the real world.........to me being popular meant you were a puppet...whenever someone pulled your strings thats the way you went. no personality ..just sheeps being lead to their slaughter......id rather be considered a "unpopular" anyday because that meant i followed my own mind..not everyone elses...\n\npeople are so fake  its unreal sometimes.....
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Know someone in the band!
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http://allmusicals.com/h/highschoolmusical.htm
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go to imbd or wikipedia. com for answers. just search a musical and they will have info on them.  \nwas high school musical ever a play???
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When I was in school, which wasn't that long ago, we called the popular kids either jocks, preps or jerks!  lol no, I'm playing about the last one, but anyway.  The unpopular kids were either goths, emos, or magic nerds (based upon the fact that most of them played that damn magic card game).  Lol, where I fit in, I don't know, probably just one of the normal ones that just wanted to get out!  Anyway, cool question (oh yeah, and we called some people Band nerds, cause...well, they were in band [hell, i was too at one time though...ugh]).
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Our high school is their college, so probably.
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You have no life i highschool. But it only goes by half as fast in highschool as it does when you get to be 40. And you will get to be 40. When you do consider yourself lucky if you can remember what happened yesterday, let alone last year.