A Cesspool of Political Correctness and Special Snowflakery

Hello!
Somewhat recently, while in an argument with one of my friends, this friend's parent called MSSM "a cesspool of political correctness and special snowflakery." And the thing is, she's not entirely wrong. Even just MSSM's sexuality demographic is probably enough to make any normal person's head spin. However, it's not necessarily a bad thing. Most of the time it just makes this school ten thousand times more awesome.
I'm going to give examples in chronological order. First up: The List. I believe that at some point, every school has had someone who feels the need to rank their classmates, based on popularity or looks or whatever. A the beginning of this year, such a list was formed by a couple of boys on Upper A.
For those who don't know, (read: probably everyone who is ever going to read this) MSSM dorms are split into wings. The girl's wings are Upper C, Lower A, and B-Wing (there's only one, so there's no need for 'Upper' or 'Lower'). The boy's wings are Upper A, Lower C, and the Manor, a old building down the road from the school. Generally, the largest/least cool wings go mostly to underclassmen. That means B-Wing and Upper A. By default, these wings have the most people, as well as the youngest average age, so they tend to be more chaotic. Upper A has a particularly meh reputation.
Anyway, this particular list ranked all the girls in the school with some number, 1-10. News eventually got around to everybody except the RAs and RIs (Residential Assistants, senior students who help supervise the wings, and Residential Instructors, the live-in overseers of the students and various events for the students). It took about two months, but eventually word got to an RA, who told an RI, who told Mr. Grillo. The next weekend the entire Upper A wing got a talk about misogyny form Mr. Grillo.
Next: Anxiety here at MSSM. There are a lot of students here at MSSM who have anxiety, and with the high workload even students who don't have mental breakdowns from time to time. I know at my sending school the understanding of anxiety was horrible. A lot of my friends had anxiety attacks in the middle of class, and their teachers wouldn't let them leave the classroom. Also, you could only really call out sick if you were physically sick. There was no such thing as a Mental Health day. Here though, it's a lot different. Students are encouraged to take mental health days when they need it, and, I didn't know this until recently, teachers understand anxiety, at least a tad bit better than they understood it at my sending school.
Story time! No worries, the story is brief. A little over a week ago I was in Math class. It's a large class, and it can go really fast sometimes. In the middle of notes, one of my friends who has anxiety raised her hand. Mr. Pederson called on her, and she told him she was having anxiety and asked to be excused to see the Nurse. He told her absolutely, and that she doesn't need to ask, she can just get up and go when that happens. Compared to the horror stories some of my friends at my sending school had, it was quick, simple, and understanding. I don't know if this is a constant throughout the school, but I really wouldn't be surprised.
Example 3: The LCS Students. MSSM shares a school building with Limestone Community School, a kindergarten, grade school, and high school all smooshed into one wing of the school. There aren't that many students, so they all fit, but we do share their halls. Every so often one of the LCS boys will catcall a girl in the hall. I'm lucky, as I'm rarely the target, but it's still an uncomfortable situation. Apparently, it came to Mr. Grillo's attention. He announced that he was working with LCS so that it would stop happening, and to please support each other and report it when it does happen. I was a bit surprised. I had gotten to the point where I forgot that that's not supposed to be 'normal' teenage boy behavior.
I guess MSSM is the type of cesspool I enjoy being a part of.
See you soon.
~Samantha Williams