What I found crazy about my school was the contrast between the pressure and the (lack of) power. We'd be given the workload of full time finance/medicine/law jobs, veritable Elon Musk workaholic situations, but no sort of power, no sort of control. Granted my school was better than most. The administration was fairly lenient and I can only think of one teacher whom I truly despised. But still, we were constantly at the mercy of teachers and security guards, gym teachers and assistant principals. We'd get hours and hours of homework and have to just smile and go with it.