I did go to high school in Juneau. My freshman year was the last year they still had a teacher smoking lounge on the top floor! The bottom floor exit, near the pool, was were all the "dangerous" guys hung out. Ha.

I actually had a pretty good time at JDHS. I think this can attributed to a variety of things: I am constitutionally happy and generally do my own thing, I was in the honors track, I was involved with activities (swim team and choir), I'm white. I'm not immune to the struggles of Juneau (especially after working at JDHS for two years!), but I don't see them as any harder than being in high school anywhere else. I think there are a lot of positives to growing up in Juneau that outweigh the negatives.