I just found a potential Acad student.

I warned him about what’s going on there now, with the administration killing itself off, and the good teachers leaving and the good students staying at home. The place is turning into an academic joke, and a budgetary drain. I love the Academy, but it ruined too many lives. Not that the fault lies with the school itself. Students go for various reasons, leaving their homes at the tender age of 16-ish, and that’s all fine and dandy. For some kids, it’s the break of a lifetime. It’s how they make it to the majors. But in all honesty, it’s how a lot of kids go from the majors to pee wee.

The school is no longer equipped for intelligent kids who want nothing more but to soak up knowledge. It’s equipped for kids who need babysitters and timeouts. It’s a sad place. I had the last good year there. I’m going to miss the classes that nearly made you cry because you couldn’t imagine anything more beautiful, but they don’t exist anymore. The good teachers have left the place as a lost cause, and the chain of graduates coming back to visit their “juniors” has ended because even the students there no longer bond over all the work.

It makes me cry that the most wonderful thing in my life has turned into something that can only be the worst in most people’s. Farewell, dear IASMH. I loved thee deeply.