My last year in public school was in seventh grade.
I intentionally picked a fight with a bully and he beat the crap out of me.
I told my parents that if they didn’t get me to a private school I would come home looking like that every day.
It worked.
Life has been good ever since. ;-)
I feel for you, FRiend. Seventh grade is the worst. Little savages on the warpath.
I finished in public school and the last couple years weren’t bad at all. The rest I try to forget.
But I can tell you that, to this day, I don’t exactly have warm feelings for children in general.
Without strict discipline, they act like something out of “Lord of the Flies” — a very unpleasant book but one full of harsh truths.