Vancouver Technical Secondary School

While considered one of Vancouver’s schools of «hard knocks», this racially diverse high school is actually quite safe, provided that you aren’t in of one the gangs. With nerds, jocks, and everything in between, students tend to dress differently and are less likely to conform to any one standard of behavior.
Gone is the «who’s cool» rule of thumb, with geeks taking pride in their good grades and thugs content to only harass other thugs. Not that popularity isn’t an issue, it’s just that the school is so large and things are so diverse that nobody really cares about the people they don’t know personally.
With a great selection of electives like metal works, electronics, band class, hairdressing etc…, it definitely delivers on the technical trades, and has everything from French Immersion for stuck-​ups to the Nova program for last chance drop-​outs. I recommend CPTV (Video) with Mr. Grenier, Electronics with Mr. Fruing, and the railway tracks behind the field for smoking lunch time doobies.