I chose this?

Magnet schools are crazy. The concept is something like this: "Let's put a whole lot of really smart and competitive kids and force them to be together for NINE FREAKING HOURS a day and them give them some crappy teachers* who don't like to, you know, follow the curriculum, so that when they have to take common assessments, they're screwed! Great idea!"


*To my teachers' credit, only one of them is really a bad teacher. Two or three are awesome, and the rest try really hard but I just don't learn much (or at all). And yes, nine hours. 7:15 when the buses get there to 4:10 when classes end. My god.