You will never be able to convince me that there is a better way of growing up than what you get in a small town.If you look back at earlier times in Bandera when graduating classes consisted of about 20 to 30 students it tells you why we were all so close to each other. For sure there were no strangers among us. Even a new student moving in was immediately accepted into the small town way of life fraternity.Some will say that it wasn't all that different than being raised in a city or going to a large school.