RpR ~ You are so right - I don't even think they call it "high school" anymore - just a place to "get high" and worry about classroom shooters ...
Essentially all that school (K through 11½) taught me was how to read and write, so I could learn to teach myself from reading nearly every book of importance in the school library, and the public library. All of my former teachers and precious librarians are probably peacefully resting now in the hereafter.
Since I do pay property taxes to support the public school system, they send me stuff in the mail.
A sample ☟
p. 4 "School district seeks public input on new funding"
The photo in the top right corner looks like it was taken in exactly the same room when I attended Gladstone High School in my last year there (1969) : that's the school library and exactly the same furniture - and probably the very same books too !
This is the first time I received "Glad Report" (I think) - this was was probably published as propaganda for the sole purpose of increasing property taxes, jacking them up as far as possible, and the propaganda may settle the minds of the nervous citizens a little … but I think it's a whole different story if you could just drop in unannounced for a classroom visit as a tax paying citizen. Now days, I think that's an impossibility.
