My high school experience vs. Gatto's

                My high school experience was different from Gatto’s claims about high school. I would say that more often than not I was not bored and was learning quite a lot. In fact, I can remember times where I was learning so much that I felt a little overwhelmed and definitely not bored. Although, there were certain times in my high school experience were I was bored, learning things that I already had learned, as Gatto described. The difference is that in Gatto’s writing he makes it seem as though the students were constantly bored and not learning anything new. This was not the case in my experience.