Starting high school has always been a rollercoaster of emotions, but the landscape of this educational rite of passage has transformed dramatically from the disco era to the digital age. As I pondered the differences of when I started high school (1974) and compared it to starting high school in 2024, I saw five major differences. Here are a few differences between embarking on high school in the groovy ’70s and the tech-saturated 2024.


