"HIGH SCHOOL. This is how to run a stick of
Chapstick down the black boxes on your scantron so the grading
machine skips the wrong answer. This is how to honor roll. Hell,
this is how to National Honor Society. This is being voted
"Most Likely to Marry for Money" or "Talks the
Most, Says the Least" for senior superlatives. This is
stepping around the kids having panic attacks in teh hallway. Thi
is being the kid having panic attack in the hallway. This
is making the A with purple moons stamped under both eyes. We had
to try. This is telling the ACT supervisor that you have ADHD to
get extra time. Today, the average high school student has
the same anxiety levels as the average 1950's psychiatric
patient. We know the Phythagorean theorem by heart, but
short-circut when asked "How are you?" We don't
know. We don't know. That wasn't on the study guide. We
usually know the answer, but rarely know ourselves. "
I don't know who wrote this,
but I love it.