“Getting into a fight with a popular senior. Pissing off a school teacher and the local chief of police. Hanging with two major-league losers." She slapped my back. "Welcome to high school.”

“Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school.”

“There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teach school”

“THE TRUTH ABOUT PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION • American fifteen-year-olds rank thirty-fifth out of fifty-seven developed countries in math and literacy. • 30 percent of public school students don’t graduate from high school. • Every day, 7,000 kids drop out of high school. • Of the 50 million children currently in public school, 15 million of them will drop out. • 25 percent of all public school math teachers did not major in mathematics or a math-related subject at a college or university. • Less than two-thirds of high school graduates are accepted to college every year. • One half...”

“Somewhere along the way of my illustrious high school career I traded my humanity for a prison of popularity.”

“What did that mean? Where could it go? He was a death diety. I was a high school senior.”