Some students suffered daily abuse, mainly verbal. For example, there was Brittney from the episode "103: Riverside High School". Her father is a drug addict and verbally abused her while she lived with him. If You Really Knew Me was filmed as a documentary-style film also as a partial anthology. The only things different were the schools the Challenge Day team filmed in and the students who participated in Challenge Day. The show If You Really Knew Me was interesting and seeing teenagers reveal their private lives to their peers on camera was shocking, but it doesn't seem real. How seriously can something like this be taken by teenagers? Some of these may seem true, but in reality, how many students do this for the chance to speak in real life and how many do it just for attention. Another factor that made this show not seem "real" was that the cameras followed the students with the saddest stories, the stories that the audience would feel most sympathetic to. When showing the international peace symbol in sign language, are students being truthful? In the episode "101: Freedom High School", the