high school teacher's strike

I attended Crestwood High School in Dearborn Heights, Michigan and graduated from there in June, 1978. At the time, it was a three year high school, so I entered in the fall of 1975. During the prior scholastic year, students in the district missed a lot of class time because of a teacher's strike. At some point before I entered high school, the majority of teachers were fired.

One effect of this was to vastly reduce the effectiveness of my high school academic experience. There were many new teachers in the school, a number of classes were cancelled (I signed up for Russian language and ended up with auto shop) and there was a real sense of disarray for a good part of the first semester.

In the end, I ended up without taking any physics or chemistry classes and no advanced math. This created a challenge for me when I entered college at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.