Others may use summers to make up that one missing course required before graduation. They're eager to be tomorrow's chefs, actors, farmers, scientists, politicians and business executives. For today, they like chess or shopping or hunting or dancing. Many take French or Spanish. There are a few saxophone players, a guitar player and more than a half-dozen who play with the band.
Several kids are into volleyball or video games or church.
Lunch, many say. Come fall, they'll be fused together in a virtual world that's seeming less and less distant with every high school commencement ceremony. They were interested, but their parents weren't. They thought that it's not a real school, just a way to get out early. Several students are cheerleaders.