Sometimes known as Hudson High.
I've been to all of the academies and the people you meet there, students, faculty and staff are, for the most part absolutely top rate.
Nothing and nobody is perfect, though, and the academies have had some of their problems revealed recently (particularly AFA with its sexual harrassment problems).
The fact that those things are happening (and have happened) are bad. The fact that they're being fixed is good.
In most cases, I am 100% anti-hazing, but it is important to realize that the Cadets and Mids are being schooled for more than graduating and spending their lives in business. For at least the first few years -- and sometimes their lives -- they are being trained to defend the country, which is more stressful and probably more inportant.
I won't go to see Annapolis (the movie), but would point out that it is just entertainment -- not necessarily reality in any way.
(PS to KR -- I have family in Annapolis and a cousin who married a Mid -- oops, I mean Ensign -- on graduation day years ago. That marriage didn't last, and then she married an Army officer. That didn't last either and last I heard she was married to a guy who teaches sailing at the Academy.)
And, by the way, was it you who posted the "waitress" pic? Mr. KR did quite well for himself, thank you! "Mainly, he wanted to know why none of the woman looked like Jordana Brewster (the female lead) when he went there"