Tour of Kennedy High School

Kennedy High School is a jungle. Here is a simple tour through its crazy twists and turns.

               The front of school has a horse shoe drive where Carl monitors for students parking there. No one really knows his job description, but he’s who you blame if you get a parking ticket. He’s actually pretty nice, but it isn’t fair that he doesn’t give you a ticket if he recognizes your car and he likes you. There is a pond in the patch of green in the horse shoe which serves no purpose. There aren’t any fish or anything, just rocks, weeds, and water.

               Once you enter the door, you see a big staircase. This is the foyer. The corner/half by the picture case and attendance office to your right is the “dirty corner”. People who don’t shower, smoke pot, and do way too much PDA (public displays of affection) inhabit this part. The other side is where all the freshman and African Americans hang out. The middle part is for the seniors. There is a senior bench right under a TV that has weird inspirational sayings on it all day long. That bench is for seniors only. Sometimes they come sit on it during class just because they can. The jocks congregate by the vending machines that are borderline under the staircase. There is a weird wooden triangle thing opposite the vending machines that no one pays any attention to. I think there’s a map on one of the sides but I’m not sure. To your right is the attendance office where people sign out when they fake sick and where their parents bring assignments they forgot at home. To your left it the activities office which serves o real purpose other than to be the place you turn in your sports physical forms and to pick up fun certificates.

               When you go up the stairs, on the first landing is the entrance for the Upper IMC. After you go through a creepy detector to see if you are going to steal a book, they scream at you to sign in. Then you can either use a computer here, down one level, or down another level where there is a small ladder and tiny door that leads to directly under the stairs. No one actually knows why it’s there. This is where you go when you skip lunch to do homework you forgot to do. There is also a secret room where hey film the announcements each day. Which is pretty much two guys reading a piece of paper and then Dr. W (principal) steals the mike to elaborate whenever she wants.

If you go back to the first level an go straight back to the right, you pass part of the LA department and then loop around to the cool social studies teachers who all have white hair and are some sort of coach. Then you turn left and pass the teachers’ lounge where kids go in to get pop, popcorn, and coffee for themselves but pretend a teacher asked then to get it for them. Then you pass the not as cool but still okay social studies teachers and then turn into the foreign language hall where you can hear weird music videos being blasted on the smart boards to bored students.

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