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Sucks to hear how shitty most of your high schools were. Though I (like many of you it seems) was sort of a "dork" in high school, I look back and appreciate how good the education there was. I attended my 10 year reunion last fall, and SOOO many people now have Masters or Doctoral degrees, mostly in math and science. Those same "nerds" also are married with kids and are extremely happy.
My greatest thrill at the 10 year reunion, however, was to see that the "popular" kids from my class haven't grown up one bit. They are all single, have no direction in their lives, and resort to getting drunk as their primary form of entertainment/social interaction.
I'm mostly happy that my high school taught me how to write. I never thought I was that great at writing papers or what have you in college until I started teaching at the University level. SOOOO many kids can't put a thought together on paper these days.
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