<p>I hope my son’s small graduating class isn’t reperesentative of what’s going on out there. Two kids were kicked out for disciplinary reasons. Three kids left a school saying it was too much like our high school. Two left a school saying it was too “ghetto”. Two kids flunked out (One ended up getting a medical pardon, allowing him to get into another school, and the other did a semester at our local cc and was able to return to his original school). One girl quit her terrific LAC when her boyfriend got kicked out of his school. One girl, accepted spring semester at school in MA, decided it was too far away after that first semester. Another girl quit a highly regarded art academy because she didn’t like all the work. And one kid did really well his first year and was able to transfer to a school that originally rejected him.</p>