LOL. I think many high schools were #1 Drug Schools in the 1970s. And the teachers didn’t care. (And in the case of my school, they were doing it too and, in one case, murdering another teacher.) It was complete, total chaos. I guess the one thing that can be said is that, even in a school like that, a lot of the kids went on to live normal lives and became productive, successful and even conservative.
Wow, we didn’t have any teachers murdering each other.
Had one commit suicide after he got busted having an affair with an exchange student. But none committed murder.
We did have two students murdered though. One stabbed to death while defending a pregnant girl from being beaten by her boyfriend.
Strangest thing we had was a kid who disappeared during my freshman year. Became one of those Milk Carton kids. Six years later they were renovating an old elementary school and found human remains in the furnace. It seems this kid tried to break-in by climbing down the chimney and fell to his death, not to be found for six years.
It got stranger. The authorities told the kid’s mom that they found the body, and to come pick it up at the morgue. She refused. For she had seen a psychic, who had convinced her that her son was alive and well and married with a family, living in Texas. No matter how they tried they could not convince her that she was wrong.
They won’t keep you in the morgue forever, so this kid was headed to Potters Field. Finally a local minister came forward and volunteered to bury him in his church cemetery.