Looking over the homework leaks, I'm really amazed at how Chris's life is so much worse than it could have been. Looking at his assignments, in some ways he seems positively average. That isn't to say he isn't lazy and dumb as dogshit-- he is. Chris has no idea how the US government works, how challenging it is to deal with a pregnancy or raise children, how to read english or speak basic spanish. He was an absolute failure of a student... but you know what? He's not alone in that. LOTS of people get through school without learning a damn thing and still go on to have lives. They might not be doctors and lawyers, but they still manage to do better than "Semi-homeless transvestite with a collection of stained pants and a weird relationship with mawmaw".
The new revelations show that Chris was indeed a total wash-out as a high school student... and yet, that doesn't change how it was still the best time in his life. Even factoring in that his "friends" weren't really his friends and likely couldn't stand him, it STILL doesn't change that this was still as good as his life was ever going to get.
Fuck, that's depressing.