When I talked about your sarcasm, I wasn't trying to direct an insult at you, I was just saying that I have a very short fuse (I'm like the incredible hulk).

Anyway, the running of the high school I went to was built upon a series of lies that were fed to us (the students) constantly. In the school's code of conduct it stated that the teachers agreed to treat the students with "respect and sensitivity". The reality was that most of the teachers treated the students like second class citizens. It's laughable that they expected us to respect them when the first thing they would say to us at the beggining of the year would normally be something along the lines of "you will respect me because I am your superior". They would tell us to shut the fuck up as much as they wanted, but if we said "yes sir" in the wrong tone of voice they would keep us behind after school. And they used to say that they "belive in equality". There was one teacher I had who bullied me all the way through my last year at school. He was always taking the piss out of me for being a film buff. He used to tell other students "Henry's stupid because he talkes about directors all the time". Not only did he bully me, but he encouraged the other students to join in. 

The code of conduct also stressed that the school really cared about the students....Bullshit! They didn't care about me. However they did care about weather or not my GCSE grades would bring up the school's average. In my last year, I was in such a state that I had to hit my head against walls (hard) in order to let out anger (so that I wouldn't have to take it out on other people, and I really think that the school should have thanked me for that). Now there were several occasions when I hit myself in full view of teachers. Did they try and help me? Did they ask me if I was alright? Did they even bother to aknowlege me?...Did they fuck. They just chose to ignor the fact that I was so stressed out that I had to constantly inflict pain on myself......However, when there was a risk of school resources being dameged, they were on to me like a speeding bullet. One time, I hit my head really hard against a window, and when I went to the first aid room the first thing they asked was "is the window ok?". Infact I'm not sure if they ever actually got round to asking me if I was ok. 

Spending 4 years at that school first drove me towards contemplating suicide, and then to the point of insanity (which is why I had to hit my head against the wall in the first place). You may think it's funny that I'm talking about this the way war veterans talk about their tour of duty, but I assure you that my experiences have left me scarred for life. 

Maybe my experiences don't represent the education system as a hole, but in any case I think that putting 1000 teanagers in an enclosed environment together is just asking for trouble. Did I mention that the teachers were completely oblivious as to what was going on in the school? At one point there were drug dealers hanging around outside the school gates, and the boys were beating each other up constantly, but the main concern of the teachers was that we weren't wearing our ties smartly enough.