Final Blog

Public high school is the stupidest thing on this planet. But thats just my opinion. I wasn't one of those children that could show up to school and succeed at the drop of a hat. I was one of the select few that got stuffed in lockers and had rumors pinned to my back like sticky notes. Even though I told teachers and complained, nothing was ever done to make the issue subside.

I think that if one of the teachers would have given a shit, I would have enjoyed public school a lot more. All the teachers thought I was just another bad kid incapable of succeeding. I could tell by the way they looked at me and how they talked at me instead of to me. Just another walking report card stained with red ink.

I suffered through middle school for a reason though. I hated every minute that I was in that hell hole, but that hell hole is what made me see that public school was just not the proper learning environment for me. I then started looking into Wellsprings Friends School. I figured if I couldn't hack it in a public middle school, a public high school was only going to be ten time worse.

When I finally reached the bridge of high school I was more than ready to be released from the grasp of the public school bullshit and enter into the loving and understanding arms of a little place known as Wellsprings Friends School. Now you see this place isn't no ordinary school, no sir. This place is special. It and all who inhabit it are different, yet we all have so many things in common. Everyone is treated equally and no one person is better than anyone else. I feel like I can breath here without ingesting someone else's hatred towards someone else.

I defiantly have a better outlook on the educational system because of this school. Not a day goes by that I don't feel heard and accepted. It's like I went from being a waking report card, to being an actual human being. I have learned so much more educationally and socially than I did in public school. Ultimately I have learned to trust my peers, and no matter what they have my back.

This has become a second home. Every person here, teachers and students, are my family. I can learn and ask questions without feeling judged or stupid. The teachers make it easy to be at school. I don't feel the need to go hide out in the bathroom or a vacant classroom. I'm allowed to be myself which is all I really needed. I have found my voice.