Relationship to School

As we discussed in class, school can be compared to a prison in many ways. We are segregated into our own groups. There are the middle class white kids, the guadsters, the emos, the list can go on and on. No matter how much anyone wants to admit it, we all stick to our segregated groups and secretly judge each other. Maybe this isn't 100% accurate for everyone but that's how I see it. "Immigrants in Our Own Land" reminds me that high school and prisons aren't so far off from each other. They may be two very different types of establishments but the people in them have the same types of habits because we are all human. 
School can be an extremely positive thing but it can also have very negative effects on people but it all depends on your own personal attitude, as the same goes for prison some people go in with an "I don't care" attitude and leave with an "Oh my god, I'm so glad to get out of this hellhole! I'm never going back there again" attitude. And then some just go even more downhill after the whole experience. It depends on whether you decide to be a positive or a negative person. School is the place that tests you most in your young life because you are thrown into a sea of asshole teenagers and no matter who you are, you come out being different because 1) the influences other students have on you and 2) you're own personal growth as these 4 years pass and you grow into the person you want to be. Although we all think school sucks most of the time it is so important in so many ways. Besides the obvious reason of education, school gives us so much more than what we think about on a regular basis. It's a place where we can be ourselves (or not be ourselves) away from our home and families. It's a place where you get to know yourself and see what you like and don't like in people. Home schooled kids don't get those sort of experiences. We are extremely lucky that the government forces us to go to school because if we didn't go to school then we would all be extremely awkward and antisocial kids, in jail or Amish. (No offense to the Amish but I mean, come on, they're mostly that weird because they never had the chance to socialize with people outside of their circle). We are forced to communicate with people who aren't like us at all and make friends with the most unlikely of people. 
So I guess that I'd consider myself a curious native. Because High School is constantly making me question every aspect of life. 
Anthropologists should just come to Righetti to gather information.