High school is just a sociological experiment.

What happens when you take a couple hundred teenagers, all with their own personalities and priorities, and lock them inside a cramped building for eight hours a day, five days a week while adults tell them what they don't know?

What happens when you take artists, athletes, scholars, and delinquents and filter them through the same mold? Human blocks in round holes?

I sometimes think teachers are selected just for their personalities. The pushovers, the hardasses, the ones who clearly hate children... All this is done to make us react. It's just like a Gamemaker trap. If they think something's getting boring, add a substitute or a new student.

It really is interesting to see how people react. Some of them regress to an infantlike state where their personal happiness depends on objects outside of themselves (thanks, Freud). They have no identity outside of their own group or "clique". Some of them attach themselves to their boyfriend or girlfriend, constantly causing drama because of their low self-esteem and need for reassurance. Others isolate themselves completely from the rest of the student body, choosing not to stoop to their shallowness. Other students partially isolate themselves by deciding who to associate with, usually students with the same values and feelings. Finally, some students begin as the first type of student, doing childish things for their peers' approval. They eventually grow out of the stage and as they mature, begin looking down on their friends' behavior. They no longer understand what the appeal of fitting in is. These students are the most mature of the student body, able to understand the system for what it is- an experiment meant to test us.

(It makes sense, doesn't it?)