Sounds like the reasons we liked/hated a particular time of school are the same, it just happened at different times.
I felt elementary school/middle school was harder to hang out with people beyond school hours cause school ended so late and we were younger. In high school, we had a little more freedom and it ended earlier and there were spares during last period so we had a lot more time to hang out.
High school started at 8:45 for us and I lived somewhat nearby. It was a 25 minute walk from it, so I usually left at 8:15. Also our high school had a lateness problem so if it was too early, many would stroll in 10-15 minutes late, and usually blamed the transit and got away with it (Toronto transit is terrible and unpredictable).
Random thing somewhat unrelated, but I heard from my younger sister/other high school friends' siblings that after the year after our year graduated, the high school just fell apart. Teachers stopped caring, kids got lazier and didn't even try anymore, and then there was an overblown scandal about sexual exploitation between a teacher and a student.
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