High School

“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

answers. 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 the hallway. This is being the

kid having a 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 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 Pythagorean theorem

by heart, but short-circuit 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.