Inside the Walls of Park High

“I would say that my high school experience would be an 8/10 because high school for me was good, and I love sports. I've done 3 sports every year. It was good but it comes with hardships, just like life,” Drew Rogge states. With an optimistic view of high school, Drew Rogge reflects on what school was like during the pandemic. “During the pandemic, I was totally online. I liked it because I got to...

While reflecting on the last four years of school, Payton Kokot takes an optimistic view. "There have been tough days and times, but overall people have worse situations. I am in a pretty good situation here.” Looking into the future, Kokot looks back on what he is going to miss about Livingston. “I will miss the community; it is a small town, and you get to know everyone in it. I will be away ...

While most feel like the past four years were positive, Brittney Behm takes a different position. "I would say that my high school experience was a 3.5/10 because I feel like I didn’t peak in high school. There are better things to do besides spending time around people that I don’t need to talk to.” Behm reflects on the best and worst memories of high school. “My best memory was harassing ...

Senior Kinley Hoeme shares, “... my high school experience has been a solid 6/10. No specific reason, that is just how it felt in general.” Reflecting how COVID-19 has impacted her high school career, Kinley had a one in a kind experience. “My grades dropped a lot in the pandemic. I also never saw anyone. It was kind of nice, but also not. I didn't understand anything, I enjoy face-to-face lear...

“I’d say, like a 6. Because high school’s full of drama, and that can definitely put a damper on the overall positivity of the school. Even the teachers aren’t very positive sometimes, which definitely factors in,” says Bailey Opitz when asked to rate her high school experience from 1 to 10. Bailey also has mixed feelings about the next phase of her life. “I feel like, fifty/fifty abou...

Melanie Nelson is rather ambivalent about her high school experience, rating it a 6 out of 10. “It was tough, but at the same time you still grow from it throughout your four years, you know? Maturity-wise, I’ve been able to help not only myself but others through hard things, like the suicide rate and mental health in general,” says Melanie. “I feel like I'm pretty prepared. I’ve been work...

Mayze Blakely-Robinson, when asked to reflect on her first year of high school, gives it a 6 or a 7 out of 10. “Girls in high school are mean. They’re not the nicest people on planet earth, and they’re very…. non-filtered. They don’t really care what they say,” she says. However, despite the drama, Mayze feels that the high school is better at setting her up for success. “The middle school’...

Maddison Wise pegs her first year of high school as a 6/10. “You start off your freshman year slacking off on work, cause you think it’ll be like middle school. And then you just start failing all your classes. And there’s a lot of drama that goes around the high school. That’s kinda what brings down the whole vibe of the school,” she said, as far as things she’s learned during freshman y...