I nearly went to a really nice charter school, because my testing rates were years and years ahead of everyone else at the shitty public school I was at, but there was a “rule” where if the student broke the law, their parents could pay a fine instead of the student just getting expelled.

Now, I’ve only ever gotten detention twice throughout my entire life, and they were really petty matters that weren’t my third grade fault. However, my parent’s thought that it meant that they had to pay the fine in order for me to go to the schoo.

So instead of going to a very nice school with excellent education, for the last three years, I’ve gone to a school that’s got 10% of the average testing rates in the country, has had 3 cases of sexual misconduct from the staff in just 10 years, has had 2 students become paralyzed through other student-induced injuries, and had an entire year that was referred to as “The Riots,” due to how much fighting, violence, and overall destruction was there, and that was just 2 years ago.