High School Confidential Book Report

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High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student written by Jeremy Iversen entails the true story of a college graduate still hesitant of his future. Jeremy returns to a place where many dream of returning, nonetheless very few get to even consider the possibility. He returns to high-school. This book exposes the true experiences that he accounted, combining and minimizing true people and events.
A graduate from Stanford, he had done everything expected for him to do, he went through boarding school and like many other classmates went to an Ivy League school. However, once he graduated no one was telling him where to go or what to do it was up to him. Leading him to think and do the impossible, fulfill his dream and return to high school. Similar to Cameron Crowe’s book Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Jeremy wanted to experience true public high school.
Subsequently, Jeremy met with many schools in California, yet all refused his proposal for some reason or another. After all he was a man looking to come back to high school not with police reasons but for a book and an experience. His chances were looking slim until a week before second semester started. He got the …show more content…

He made friends with the popular crowd to gain more insight and met different types of people. He found out what teachers are really like and how they interact with their students. In one case, he found a teacher that hated the school system and that only taught his way. Oppositely, he meet the teacher that wanted to be every ones friend (well everyone that is popular) more than teach the class. Students gossiped and cursed in class and the teachers would just join in the conversation. The school system never followed the state procedures until the state did 6 year checkups, requiring a cram of the state procedures. Students bullied other students, including special education kids and got away with it. High school was rough and he was witnessing it head

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