INSIDE REALITY HIGH.

• Author: Smith, Patrick
• Position: Teenagers featured in 'American High' reality-based television program - Brief Article

Students' private lives play out on TV's American High

As reality TV goes, American High is about as real as it gets. There's no voting students off the 13-part series, which follows 14 students at a suburban Chicago high school and runs throughout the summer on PBS. UPFRONT talked to two of the teen stars, Morgan Moss and Tiffany Woods.

What was it like to be videotaped for the year?

Morgan: Great. Thirty years from now, when my kids say, "Dad, you don't understand what it's like to be a teen," I'm just gonna sit 'em down and pop in the American High tape. Then they can see I was worse than all of them put together.

Tiffany: It was kind of cool having people look at you and think you were famous because of the cameras.

Did you ever forget the cameras were there?

Morgan: Never. Once they were gone, I kind of missed them.

Tiffany: All the time.

Is what's on TV really what happened?

Morgan: Oh, yeah. I'm actually like that.

Tiffany: They can only focus on one issue [in an episode], and my issue was about a boy. I got my heart broken. They made it seem like he was everything to me. There was much more to my year than...