High schools, or academic institutions for students in ninth through twelfth grade, provide advanced education succeeding primary schools in order to prepare youths for higher learning and their adult lives. Although this suits high schools of the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century, contemporary high schools increasingly distance themselves from their purpose. Now, high schools stand as fruitless, crumbling, overcrowded penitentiaries where naïve parents send their teenagers every day, ignorant of the climate juveniles weather for countless hours. High school, the "best  years of a young adult's life, one way or another leaves scars on them past graduation. The anxiety that plagues students daily results from negligent adults, an unnecessarily competitive atmosphere, and the improbability of fitting in. Adults act as scientists in the failed experiment of equipping students for college and the adult world. Like deteriorating penitentiaries, the façades of schools remain sturdy while their bowels rot, and their once illustrious staff decays. Truly, no better than prisons, high schools serve as containment centers. Endeavoring to put parents at ease, cameras scan every corridor, while security personnel struggle to intimidate, and cautionary signs clutter the bulletin boards. These supposedly "helpful  adults turn a blind eye, however, when a student requires aid or guidance. Students seeking sanctuary, for example, explore the school in pursuit of a teacher's safe zone only to find brutes wearing muzzles, keeping their pejorative remarks to a whisper. High school remains a place ridden with delinquency and anarchy, which adults neglect to extinguish and progressively encourage. While high schools' marvelous staff plays an incredibly important role in every institution, nothing fulfills them more than watching their students vie. Contemporary high schools' administrators persistently tell their students their