My high school experience was so awful due to the school that I was zoned for, and attended, that I let the principal know at the end of my senior year when we were discussing something — that I suppose I will eventually get to — that I didn’t want the school to contact me after graduation for any reason, and I made sure to hide well enough not to be invited to my first class reunion. So far, I haven’t been contacted, which is good, and I speculate that I won’t be invited to any class reunions since I have made my desire not to attend any of them abundantly clear. To date, I am only friends with one single person that attended my high school the same time as me on Facebook, and he only attended my freshman year before his father, being in the military, was assigned somewhere else and he had to move. Anyway, getting to the actual point of this…

My high school became a four-year high school during my freshman year, and we had an almost record-setting number of bomb threats called in that year. The next year, though… radio silence. I eventually found out that a teacher had accidentally admitted to a student that all bomb threats called in that year were actively being ignored because the school administration had requested that they be ignored and no action taken on them. I would have much rathered that action be taken on bomb threats being called in when there were no bombs on campus than for there to actually be, or have been, a bomb on campus that administration “ignored” because they didn’t like having to order that the school be evacuated each time this occurred. And for the rest of the time that I was a student at this school, we didn’t have a single bomb threat, so I knew that any that were being called in were being ignored. It weren’t as though our school, or even this city, was low on crime. People could have gotten killed due to administration not wanting “inconvenience”.

We had the same principal from the school’s inception until 2006, so I can’t really speak beyond that point.