Katrina Stewart

High school is a place you enter after middle school. It’s a place that is pushed on you so you can “find” yourself, so you can “better” your life. But really it’s just a place that you have to attend for 4 years, with stupid people who then become your friends just to drop you for people they once hated. Eventually you realize high school isn’t what people told you it would  be, eventually you realize that you’re just here to get a passing grade and not actually to learn the material. Its pretty much just as equal to a prison cell. You get bossed around by guards all day telling you what to do and what not to do. You constantly see cell mates fighting with other cell mates. You get your cars booted when really all you’re trying to do is just come to school. You get told what to wear even though your shoulders shouldn’t turn a man on.  

High school isn’t something you will enjoy.

Until you make those special connections with friends, teachers, security guards, assistant principals, and the principal. High school is a time where you not necessarily find yourself, but find yourself in others, where your teachers push you to be the best you can be, where your assistant principals and principals just want to see you turn into the person they know you can be. Where the security guards just want to teach you to follow the rules because no matter what there will be consequences. Where your friends just want to help your high school experience be one you will never forget. So besides it feeling like a prison it also feels like a home. Where the principal is your grandma, the assistant principals and security guards are your aunts and uncles, and your teachers are your parents, and your friends are your brothers and sisters.

High school is your home away from home.