At my old school a student showed up drunk a lot even though classes started at 7:15 in the morning. I can't imagine needing a drink that early.
She won Homecoming queen the next year and then threw up on all the shoes that were underneath a table. I wonder what happened to her.
took a personal finance class over the summer in high school. some kid walked in completely trashed and proceeded to throw up all over his desk. don't remember if he dropped the class or was kicked out right after, but i don't think he ever showed up after that day.
I once had a student show up so high one day that he was spelling his own name wrong to log in to the computer and complaining that the computer was broken.
We used to smoke and drink in the woods right next to the school but all the police knew that so they would just camp for us there.
I must've grown up in a bubble because if any of my classmates ever showed up to class drunk or high I was never aware of it
My grades weren't great but I was a magnet kid and took a few AP classes and got to Calc A so I mean I guess?
Sometimes it feels like separate schools between the really smart kids and the lazy ones. They even take different electives so if I reference one kid in a different class they will have no idea who I am talking about.
i remember my friend who got me into punk in high school showing up in the morning fresh off a gravity bong hit, just blitzed off his ass and immediately getting sent home for it lmao
idk why i was even in that class (Calc A). I ended up majoring in English of all things. I was in AP Calc AB but failed first semester so i had to retake Calc A during second semester senior year. my school probably required that everyone was in a math class every semester. also i guess i wanted to get out of having to take a math course for GE in college, but i ended up having to take one anyway.
the smart kids at my high school were just as likely to do it too - they just had less-severe consequences. i went to an International Baccalaureate high school (AP on steroids for those unfamiliar), so there was a huge sense of elitism found amongst/privilege granted to those of us in the IB program compared to the rest of the student body, many of whom were lower socioeconomic status and/or non-White. one of my classmates was incessantly high and got suspended for bringing a vodka-filled water bottle to class. he faced no longstanding repercussions for it, got his diploma, and for some ungodly reason, he's now a pharmacy tech. that same courtesy wasn't granted to non-IB students, several of whom were expelled and sent to the "alternative school" in town. the elitism got so bad at one point that school administration had to step in and tell some of the IB students to grow the fuck up or face consequences. don't think that did anything.
There is so much corruption in who gets punished for what. Part of it is grades/ability but there is also the amount of money we get per student. If a kid is with us until February we get the full funding for the year so there is a huge difference in what gets you expelled in January versus March.
it also felt partially status-related. we ranked pretty highly in the US compared to other high schools, so there was a big emphasis put on graduation rates, college test scores (we were an ACT school instead of the SAT), acceptances and scholarships, etc. i think they probably felt it conducive to bend over backwards for a good number of their highest-ranking students lest it damage their reuptation.
I am currently at one of the best schools in the state and the parents definitely have a lot more power over the school as compared to other schools I have been at. We had a 98.2 percent graduation rate last year and we had a meeting this year on how to improve it. When I used to work in a prison the parents could not even contact us at all. It was more peaceful.
I had one group of friends that would ocassionally drink before school on half days senior year. Typically if it was known well in advance that there was a party or some type of hang going down when school let out. We would turn it into a bit where we’d show up at the friend’s house that lived right next to the school and start grilling hot dogs at like 6:00am lol. His parents must have thought we were insane, but we needed an excuse to all be there and be outside so we could sneak drinking on the side of the house. Also just because grilling that early was very funny to us for some reason. Though we did do waffles once. I’d keep it to like 1-2 beers though, going to school actually drunk sounds like hell