<p>ok, wow, i knew there were insane high schools out there. I just didn’t realize the kids there deluded themselves into thinking their high school is somewhere in the “normal” range. And no, I don’t go to some inner-city school. Like my user name implies, I go to a school in the country. The roof leaked before the construction project my sophomore year, and now it still leaks. We had Civics books that didn’t include the last Constitutional amendment. I have about 160 in my graduating class, and that’s after taking out the drop-outs, the kids who must work, the migrant kids, and the guys who stay home to work on the farm. I was the only person to even apply to an ivy league. Penn State main campus is an accomplishment to get in to; only the top students can get in. We take kids from six towns and the countryside in-between. We all get bussed to school. We run out of paper, tissues, and paper towels every year b/c there just isn’t enough money in the budget for it. And through all of this, we still graduate 8/9 kids, most of them go to college or the military (though not crazy elite schools), we do well in athletics for our size, and keep up w/ the AYP for NCLB. Trust me, our ESL program is big. And not just the number of people in it, but the fact that it’s one teacher for all of them. We’re what I consider a typical high school. We are a normal high school in my area. Your high school is just insane. If we have 70% or more of my class even going to college it’s really impressive.</p>