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In short: don't look for (mere) strength, look for honor.

(As a side note: the author refers to high-schoolers as to a "pack" at some moment. To my mind, one of the most detrimental things modern schools do to children is packing them in large single-age groups, where jackal pack mentality grows easily, and there are no big guys to look at and emulate, nor small ones to care about and protect.)

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I was in some kind-of experimental programs as a kid. In middle school, we had a "team" that we all followed with. Basically same teachers and it covered multiple grades. I really liked it. I had good friends in a grade lower, and I could be a part of some classes a grade over. But I never had the awkward in-wrong-grade feeling.

I have no clue what difficulties that put on the teachers, but as a student it was pretty nice.

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