text: I graduated from PVHS in the Bicentennial year Moved to Phoenix and into PVHS near the end of my sophomore year By comparison the high school I left in Wisconsin and the school I came to PV were opposite ends of a coinnn There are not any cowboys in Wisconsin In contrast I got to describing PV as cowboys and the Drama Club And I was not far off n None of the required reading in my high school in Wisconsin Slaughterhouse by Vonnegut and Siddhartha by Hesse for example we even AVAILABLE in the PV library I remember asking about those titles and the librarian called them smut and seemed offended that I would ask If found out that if you wanted to read those books you had to take classes from Mrs Alderman who was the best English teacher EVER She just passed in at age n The quality of education in Wisconsin on a scale of was Here they were happy to teach at a level of about n Smoking at both high schools was not allowed but people did it anyway Smokeless tobacco though In Wisconsin nobodyd even HEARD of it Out here it was Cowboy Candy Guys were spittin that shit all over campusn You could bring a knife to school and wear it on your belt and nobody cared In Wisconsin nobody even thought about doing thatn By coming to PV I managed to get through high school without ever writing a term paper because none of my teachers ever asked for them In Wisconsin I could not have avoided itn The study hall was a great advancement out here compared to the cafeteria used in Wisconsin PVs study hall was a separate building with a very small room you could actually study in The rest of the building was filled with air hockey machines pool tables a snack bar and a stereo playing whatever albums kids brought in to play n I will say that the English department down here had it all over my Wisconsin HS because you could take classes based on types of literature I took Science Fiction Humor in Literature and other interesting classesn In Wisconsinthe drinking age was which means seniors and teachers frequently socialized at the same bars This led to odd situations to be sure but nobody went to jail for it In AZ at that time drinking age was That did not keep the occasional teacher and student from commingling but nobody cared It was a different time