I went to a really good high school. Some crazy **** went down but academically it might have been the best public high school in the entire state of Georgia. It was 49% black from busing but for the out of area black kids (there was only one black kid actually zoned for the school) they had to test in like it was college. The black kids were smarter and more well behaved than the white kids. It was like white kids who just happened to have rich parents and black kids who managed to excel even though they grew up in ****ing College Park or The Bluff. And back then those were probably the toughest neighborhoods in America.
So yeah, I was sheltered as a kid from what I experienced as a teacher. I never saw students threaten teachers with violence right in their face until I became a teacher. I was genuinely taken aback.
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