I learned how to rolls joints, how to give blowjobs, how to seduce men, how to do drugs. I was sexually assaulted and the peer pressure to have sex was huge.
The still-fallen part of my being actually becomes jealous when I hear stories like this, my experiences at school having been nowhere near so excitingly scandalous when I was a teenager, but rather very dully inane. In my experiences, public school was more a matter of indoctrination than education. Professors rarely seemed very concerned with rather or not we actually understood anything, from biology to nutrition to environmentalism to politics, we were taught to simply accept what we were told and that it would be silly to even bother evaluating the validity of any contrary claims. In part, it was that the professors didn't seem to expect any better of us, as though had given up on us before even giving us a chance. But I think it was mostly that those professors themselves are products of the same system. Most of us just shuffled through all those years of school, not really learning anything, not really concerned about learning anything either, but almost without exception absolutely terrified of global warming and quite convinced that it (and pretty much everything else that is wrong in the world) is all the fault of the USA, and confident that if there is ever any kind of problem all that needs to be done is some committee or organization to draft some more legislation. It was usually the "bad" kids who realized that there was a problem with all this, which is why I fell in with them and began to dabble in racism, extreme nationalism, and the occult.
I still wonder how far I may have gone with those things if my Catholic faith, even during those times my faith was very weak, had not been present as a counter-balance.
