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Did you know ...

• current NFL player Terrance Knighton received only two scholarship offers coming out of high school?
• Sports Illustrated described high school player Kevin Laue as "the most exciting player in basketball" because of his playing skill with only one hand?
• Will Harvey created his first commercial computer game when he was only 15 and still in high school?
• girls in Poland wear red lingerie underneath their dresses during a studniówka (high school ball)?
• the 2004 Dean v. Utica U.S. federal case expanded the First Amendment rights of high school journalists, which had been limited by the Supreme Court's 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier ruling?
• though students spend their entire high school career at Tech Valley High School in New York's Capital District, their diploma comes from their home school district?
• the film Dangerous Minds was based on the true story by the high school teacher Louanne Johnson, My Posse Don't Do Homework?
• Ossie Brown, a criminal defense lawyer and former district attorney in Baton Rouge, composed his high school alma mater?
• Murray Raney, who developed the Raney nickel catalyst, did not attend high school?
• Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets American college basketball player Thaddeus Young (pictured) was a McDonald's All-American and graduated from high school with a 4.3 grade point average?
• Colorado Rep. Stella Garza-Hicks dropped out of high school in the ninth grade?
• Matthew Vassar's Springside estate (pictured), Andrew Jackson Downing's only extant work, has been a proposed site for a cemetery, high school and condominiums?
• John "Bam" Carney, a Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, became well-known in his district through his work as a high school basketball coach?
• Katie Sierra was accused of treason and suspended from high school in October 2001 for attempting to start an anarchist club?
• John Pittenger, former Pennsylvania Secretary of Education, was the first legislator to regularly employ high school seniors as legislative pages in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives?
• architect, former partner at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, and founder of Lucien Lagrange Architects, Lucien Lagrange was a high school dropout?