They had something that my public school didn't have, which was an honorable code of conduct. The Code of Conduct stated “no stealing, no lying and no cheating”. Which was heavily enforced. The school spanned grades five through twelve and there were approximately 400 students. My first year there, there were only 12 people in my class, so it was pretty hard to keep everything you did to yourself. Around seventh grade we had more people and our class size quadrupled to about 50 people. Which was the largest class at Altamont. This is when people started to become mean and too invasive in personal space. There were no real groups due to the small class size. But every time a new person came to school, people were nice to them for a few weeks and then the new person either found their place or not. Since the rank was so small, everyone knew their own business. There was a girl in my class whose name I won't say. She tried to start a fight with someone every day, whether it was about something logical or not, she loved to fight. I don't know if Altamont had any anti-bullying laws when I was there because even though it was a great school I don't remember if they ever did anything with the girl and her bullying other than bringing her into the office and talking to her. Since we were still considered to be in lower school, we could not yet receive punishment. He never made fun of me why