Reply #64: Did anyone else hear "We're preparing you for college" all the time?

[kiahzero]

What happened to that?

Oh... right... it was complete and total bullshit.

The problem with public highschools is not the teachers. It's the administrators. Perhaps it's just my experience, but the administrators in the middle and high school I went to would make stupid decision after stupid decision. Let's see what I can remember, just related to bathrooms.

For instance, bathroom doors were closed and locked, because they were "smoking havens" - this made it nigh impossible to both use the restroom and get to class. As another poster mentioned, soap was rare, since refilling the containers might lead to someone wasting a small amount - the same with the paper towels. At one point, the school was investigating some vandalism or something, and the administration was shocked... shocked... to hear that 10% of the school (roughly 100 people) had gone to the bathroom over the course of an hour.

I could come up with more, but I'd be going off topic.