Completely bewildering. The school I went to was designed for ~2,000 students, but had 3,500. Any sports had to be played about a half hour away because the fields were covered in temporary buildings. I would have actually preferred the school experience depicted in movies and television where kids are snotty and cliquish because the way they shuffled so many student between classes made it very hard for even the most socially awesome person to make friends. I did get along well enough with most of my classmates, even the blacks bussed in from the inner city were mostly pleasant and kept any violence between themselves. My only really good teacher was my German teacher, probably why I love learning new languages, the rest were unqualified to teach their particular subject. A few times, someone in the administration made a mistake where something in the classes I was scheduled for did not match my report card, so I got a failing grade in a class I never took and couldn't move on to the next grade until that was fixed. If it prepared me for anything, it was dealing with surly black women at the DMV who act like doing the job they are paid for is a big favor.
