When I attended public high school it was actually a prep for AT LEAST junior college.
That was back in the days when black kids were bussed into our school in a misguided effort to have racial equality throughout the school system.
Nobody liked it, the white kiss didn’t, the black kids didn’t and the parents didn’t either.
The reason there wasn’t a lot of trouble between the cracks was the black kids were outnumbered probably 5 to 1.
Without that distraction, back then the quality of the education was actually very good.
Of course that was in the late 70s.....since then the public education system in this country has gone to shit.
My BIL was one of the ones bussed TO a black school, which was about 10% white after the busing. He and his brother didn’t eat or drink until they got home because “it was as much as your life was worth to enter a bathroom”! He also said a white guy picking up a basketball while at school would have put the guy in a hospital. Or morgue.