My high school was pretty poor. I mean, our sound technology didn't get more advanced than a half broken Yamaha 0v1 and a bunch of wireless lavs that we didn't have enough distro to run effectively, and our lighting was pretty much 16 36 degree Source 4s, 8 MF Par Cans, and a bunch of fresnels and parnels. We had no variety when it came to equipment and all of our lighting was wired by students, causing our poor breaker to flip a bitch at least four times per rehearsal until my two friends, the tech instructor and I could fix all the problems, which was pretty much always wiring the ground to the hot and hot to the ground on a stage pin.
Don't worry though, once you get out of high school, these problems are non-existent. You rarely have to worry about the way something is wired (I have yet to) and your equipment has everything it needs to function at 100%.
For instance, our stage has outlets all over that are reserved for audio. The outlets all share a common earth ground, preventing ground loops. Apparently that's common in the real world, but again, something I didn't expect coming out of high school.
Good things.
-Me.
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