Do you miss high school?

Not at all, at least not in my experience. The American school system that is portrayed endlessly in movies is actually pretty laughable by comparison, in that I think most of the American high school culture is pretty mundane by comparison. Cliques weren't necessarily established in my school, it was just kind of people resonating with other people with similar mentalities and interests. My inner circle of friends was and still is comprised 95% of people I genuinely grew up with from elementary school and through college (I opted out of going to college as I was already proficient at my craft and wanted real world experience instead of debt). I enjoyed the social aspect of high school though, and I was pretty much the black kid that most people knew of and had no problem with. My best friend and I were basketball players, I was also a nerd, an anime buff, a bit of a class clown who also held up my grades moderately-well for someone who day dreamed in class a lot, and I think that's what made high school pretty positive for me. I had a little bit of each "clique", even though it wasn't established that there were any. It's not like only the football players and cheerleaders sat together- I mean there were definitely groups that had that dynamic, but that was mostly because those are the people who clicked on that level and had that history. If you played football middle school through high school, chances are you knew the cheerleaders who did the same.

Looking back on it now though, there are times I do wish I hadn't taken high school so seriously- where I would have expressed my views, opinions, and character a little more earnestly instead of taking it so seriously. I'm a pretty opinionated person, but when you are in a place for 6 hours a day, with rules, and authority figured that require you to even ask to take a piss, it's very easy to kind of fall into that "sit down, shut up, do your work" mentality. I wish I had disobeyed a little more and taken a few more chances pulling pranks, verbally antagonizing the bullshit some teachers spewed, and not being so conservative. That's who I feel I am at my core, and I think the American school system for a lot of kids, ultimately distracts them from who they are. We're taught that they are preparing us for the "real world", but there are very few things you take with you from high school. Nothing worth being taught is obtained by being confined by four walls with only one person's views and rhetoric being espoused.

So I guess to answer the OP's question: Collectively I would say I don't miss high school. It was a pit stop that was enforced with this bullshit notion that if I didn't make it the 4 years I'd be a fucking loser. Which is pretty ironic because, not to take anything away from teachers, but the majority of them spend an insane amount of time in college to become teachers, just to work for shit pay in an establishment that isn't actually that overall enlightening to the minds they are molding. The curriculum and the lack of free choice actually restricts the learning process and the genuine desire to learn. When you're bored, you could give a shit. That has always been my largest critique of the American educational system. If I'm not mistaken the Netherlands have a school system in high school where they can select courses that appeal to what they feel they might want to do later on in life, and the credits for those courses are applied accordingly. If you're not trying to be an accountant, you don't have to take fucking algebra or trigonometry. If you want to do art, you can take courses that are relevant to art. But America approaches the minds of youths from the same kind of narcissistic and egotistical philosophy of manifest destiny, so we attack education through a "let's make them the most well-rounded" we can, so we are better than everyone else collectively" mind set. We use the education of our youth as a means to compete, and I'm not saying that other countries don't do the same- it's at a different scale. This sounds all well and good, but there's no such thing as a "well-rounded" individual. We all suck at certain things- if those certain things happen to be the fact that you fucking suck at the mandatory secondary language course you have to take, guess whose GPA just took a massive hit, and guess whose chances at acceptance to the college they want has been altered because they have been forced to take a class that is fucking pointless to them? It's all so flawed, but the people you are around day after day offer up this feeling of comradery of sorts that is hard to explain. It's like a massive family, and even though there's a lot of bullshit, there's a lot of warmth you feel in belonging to such a large group of individuals who are all going through the same shit as you. After college, minus your friends and actual family, you don't necessarily have that feeling anymore. You're an individual of 7 billion, but no one's confined in a box with you anymore. Because there's no box and no boundaries, they're not forced to acknowledge you as an individual, get to know you, or even acknowledge the fact that you exist.