“For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and forced to endure the peltings and outrages of a mob of deranged half-wits, an experience from which he supposed he should have emerged a better person, but that’s not really what happened—and if there were any lessons to be gleaned from the ordeal of those years he never quite figured out what they were. He walked into school every day like the fat lonely nerdy kid he was, and all he could think about was the day of his manumission, when he would at last be set free from its unending horror. Hey, Oscar, are there faggots on Mars?—Hey, Kazoo, catch this. The first time he heard the term moronic inferno he know exactly where it was located and who were its inhabitants.” SchoolNerdGeekSchoolingSchoolsNerdsGeeksNerdiness Book:The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn't do school anymore. Something inside wouldn't let me.” SchoolFictionInner TurmoilHigh School Dropout Book:The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Let’s just say, by the end of her second quarter Beli could walk down the hall without fear that anyone would crack on her. The downside of this of course was that she was completely alone.” SchoolLoneliness Book:The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao