This was on the last day of summer school. It was a store-front school with mostly Chinese or Chinese-American students, and classes typically dwindled to only a few kids by tne end of the summer.
My high school English class that day had only three students, two regulars and one more, a boy I’d never seen before, apparently a friend of one of the other’s who had just kind of wandered in. I asked him why he was there, and that was his answer.