“Coming from, like, a school of 200, they’d all minded their own business. Like they didn’t talk to you, they didn’t care. Everyone at that school was trying to graduate. Like that’s the whole point. Like no one really went to school for friends, or like, the high school experience. At alternative school we don’t have homecoming. We don’t have any of that. We just have school. And that’s kind of the reason I also switched here because I was like, I’m a freshman and I don’t want to spend the rest of my four years just doing school. I feel like high school is a place where you grow. And at that school I was just in one place.  I mean throughout your four years I guess like, you would switch friend groups, like you just evolve as a person and at that school, like at alternative school, it was just like, I was just stuck, I guess. Like I was just on one line. I guess one line’s fine, but I want to venture out.”