When I think back, I remember shying away from the subject of higher education. As I reached my 3rd year of high school my classmates were already pepped up about applying for college. When they were hard at work, putting the effort in to ensure their educational future, I was sleeping through class or not going at all. Did I stop attending class because it was too hard? It wasn't hard in an academic way, no, the problem was actually the complete opposite.
My high school has always been know for its athletics, not its academics. There was no academic challenge. Why? Because they did not want to make it anymore challenging for students to graduate due to the school's faltering graduation rate that only kept declining over the years.
How do I know this? I remember having an assembly in the auditorium and during that assembly our principal sternly warned us about the fall in test scores.
Classes were tedious. Honestly, how many things from high school do I use now? Not many... No, honestly, I did not gather any more than a few life-skills, or retain much knowledge at all, from high school. I only ever grew more and more dissatisfied over time with my classes. Even when it came to the subjects I really find extraordinary and fascinating. It seemed as if, most of the time, my teachers barely made an effort to keep us adolescent minds intrigued, engaged and involved. When I replay my memories from when I was in my high school classes, they are have the same drab setting narrated with the same monotone voice going on and on like the authority figures in the Peanuts series.
Somehow, although I missed a majority of the last few years of high school, I still managed to pursuit higher education after dropping out. Now, I am doing fairly well in my first semester of college, I'm passing my classes and honestly, it's no thanks to my public high school.
