Culture

What’s With Our Cultural Obsession With High School?

Have you ever noticed how popular the movies and TV shows set in high school are? More importantly, have you noticed how ridiculous and inaccurate they usually are?

By Meghan Dillon3 min read
What’s With Our Cultural Obsession With High School?

Some of the first teen and high school movies came in the 1950s and 1960s, but Grease changed the game in 1978, setting up the ‘80s to have some of the most beloved teen movies of all time. The majority of classic ‘80s teen movies were directed by John Hughes like Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Pretty in Pink. Early high school movies focused on themes relating to coming of age, and most of these movies were comedic.