Oh wow, it’s still a thing: https://www.nj.gov/labor/youngworkers/find-a-job/working-pap...
Took me years to get over a kind of situation-induced SAD that I'm pretty sure was caused by that. Like, 15 or so years.
More broadly, how many folks have nightmares about school for years into adulthood? Mine didn't stop until my mid-30s—they were practically the only nightmares I still had, and were frequent. And my experience in high school was relatively good!
High school's... kinda horrible, as practiced. Being cooped up in bad lighting during Winter with at least a few total assholes you can't escape and the school can't kick out unless they get really bad, and add hormones to the mix. Work expectations and judgement harsher and far less flexible than anything I've experienced in the "real world". No wonder people have nightmares. I'd drop a job with those conditions as soon as I could find another, if not sooner.