High School Musical: How High School Musical Changed America

High School Musical: the 2006 movie that changed America and me. The movie depicted high school as a place where students sang in between classes, danced on the lunch tables, and, obviously, found lifelong love. As a wide-eyed six year old, all of this sounded great to me. I was itching to go to high school and participate, and if someone had asked me to, I would’ve dropped everything for that dancing and singing kind of scenario. As I got older, it became obvious to me that this movie was drastically over-dramatized, but being my overly optimistic self, this realization didn’t fully hit me until I walked through the doors of Forest Park High School on September 2, 2014. There was no singing, no dancing, and no Troy Bolton. At that moment