Remembering Highschool

Our schools have come along way since the days of QBasic programming and one way halls. Students can graduate highschool with 3 to 4 years of animation and programming classes under their belt as they march off to college. Some of us had to wait until college and even after to start chasing our dreams, and today's youth is getting a head start on that complex question of what to do with the rest of their life. It's a beautiful, inspiring notion to see such opportunities filtering through the educational system... atleast until you realize that although the physical appearance might be different, highschool will always be highschool. And the drama that defines the highschool experience is not only being perputated by their peers, but also by an administrative system that is drowning in a new world of technology that it cannot begin to understand how to regulate.

The internet is filtered to such an extreme that most children have to go home to do their research. Each student is given a login, and it only takes one accident. One stressful day where a student might forget to logout, and someone else's malicious intent is recorded on their ID and punished regardless of all explanation. One accident and that student might be benched for months, unable to touch a computer; thus rendering homework and research nearly impossible in an age where technology drives every second of our lives.


The scope of a highschool education continues to impress and increase each year, and the drama that restricts us follows it exponetially.

Remembering highschool... and remembering how good it feels to be done with it.