I had the same experience, I hated high school...but I have to admit, the school in our lil town of 15K people was pretty dam good. Not a lot of electives, but

I had the same experience, I hated high school...but I have to admit, the school in our lil town of 15K people was pretty dam good. Not a lot of electives, but we got really good grounding in basics: 4 years English, 4 years math (up to basic calculus), 4 years science (including physics, chem and bio). We even had an 'Environmental Studies' science class - and that was back in the 80s. I also found it gave us a more 'self learner'/ 'figure it out' attitude. Contrasting with a lot of my peers and younger, it seems like 90% of what they ask is just a google away... Also, being able to reason about unknown error messages or system behavior seems to be a challenge for a lot of them.