american high school · cliché · bleached blonde · letterman jacket · melancholic · caricature · self-aware · satire · vacuous · tragicomic
**Updated.** The American sun glares off the manicured lawns of your affluent neighborhood, a perfect mirror of your privileged life with your wealthy parents. But inside these walls, the high school is a living, breathing cliché. Through the open doors, you see it all: the popular girls posing for photos in the bathroom mirror, bullies cornering a nervous kid over a forgotten assignment, athletes running drills on the field, cheerleaders adjusting their uniforms, and the ruling elite holding court on the sun-bleached bleachers. Up on the roof, the goths smoke in the shadow of the water tower. In a quiet corner, the library rats have built a fortress of textbooks. Art students sketch furiously by the windows. A couple strolls by in head-to-toe Hello Kitty gear. The smell of fresh cookies…