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Update 3/28/18: Comments Disabled, I'm aware of what backlash is, but calling me out of my name isn't gonna prove anything for anyone, I'm aware of what online schools do and what they are, but not many people are good with online school, I know that for sure. It's 2018 if you're gonna respect my opinion or disagree with it, handle it in a NICER manner without being rude. Thanks. Also, the stamp is made like this to get people's attention, if you don't wanna end up getting a seizure then don't look at my profile or stamps... This is an Epilepsy Warning.
Here's another long story, once again, I'd advise everyone to get some snacky-snacks this is a true story and It's not exaggerated at all. This is 100% real and all of this has happened. I also graduated a year late (My original Graduation date was meant to be 2016) so I'm just telling everyone based off experience.
Lets get personal alright? I can tell you guys, my high school was legitimately hell on earth, it happens to be one of the largest high-school campuses in my state, being literally the size of a college campus. It's 11 Stories high. (It's North Atlanta if you want to know)
It's almost built like a fucking jail. (as if all schools aren't like that.) I hated my school and honestly other kids were also bold enough to say they hated the school out loud.
But my school was the worst, it seemed like the teachers and staff didn't give a shit about you, and could do whatever the fuck they want, and could say whatever they wanted to. They knew they were getting paid low and they didn't give a shit to be honest.
I was one of the outcast kids in my school, and plus on that I happened to be one of the ones who was in a "Disabilities program" because I have pretty bad ADHD, and some other things I have yet to discover, but it's mainly ADHD that's my main issue. I generally got picked on and bullied by other kids, because I looked different and didn't dress like them. (generally dressed like my mom, didn't have a consistent style)
I would be constantly asked about my non-existent love-life and who I was with when it was clear I wasn't with anyone throughout my time in school in general.
I had this friends with benefits relationship but it wasn't real and the guy never did actually ask me to be his boyfriend and moved on to some other bitch, and I kid you not, everyone was having fun teasing me about it for at least 3 years, and slightly four with some people occasionally remembering it now and then, including teachers and staff, it wasn't just my peers. Even my Case Managers would mess with me about it.
Throughout my time in high-school at the beginning I was hoping to start off anew including meet new friends, which I actually did. But they eventually became rather distant just like when I was middle school and moved on. I generally only had one friend who still cared for me since we were in 3rd grade together, but yeah.
I have always been the kid who people have said "never did any work in class and would always be distracted and would draw all the time" even peers and teachers would always remind me of this occasionally. From Pre-School all the way up to my Senior years of high-school.
I generally did take these things to heart, and honestly, the only thing that really ruined me in school was middle school. (Ill shorten this part for you; My middle school math teacher picked favorites and hated me the most, and actually questioned my brain-cells in front of my whole class, and lied about it at a meeting to my mother and grandmother. This basically ruined my trust for any person of higher status than my own, and has made me unable to speak up in class if I have/had a problem.)
In high-school I was known for being in a certain clique of people who had the same/similar disabilities as I, (They're awesome people BTW) and well we all dealt with the same bullshit, some worse than I even.
Teachers at my high-school have had a reputation for being the most demotivational, shady, and some of the craziest people I have ever met. People think I was/am making excuses for my failures when I was in that school, but no, I'm not, I never was making excuses, It was the truth. Every-time someone didn't do their work or was being AWOL/disobedient in the school they'd go and start saying some bullshit like "If you don't do this one assignment you're going to fail and not graduate on-time." (Everyone knows these type of teachers); There would even be those teachers who would constantly bring up their degree in the subject they teach; "I have a degree in this subject and where is yours at?" (yes there were a lot of those in my school)
But, let me get to other things besides the teachers,
THE SCHOOL ITSELF>
There are so many flaws with the school, generally the school was an upgrade of an old office building, and heres what puzzles me about it;
They have these hi-tek elevators that are the slowest ever when it's time to transition. (I've been stuck on them twice after lunch, it's seriously not fun)
They expect you to be back in class at a certain time or get to class within a certain amount of time but it never works out if you're coming from the 3rd floor and trying to get to the 8th. Yeah SURE, you can take the stairs but then again there's a clusterfuck ton of people IN ONE STAIRCASE and what if you can't handle all those stairs?
It just doesn't work out well.
Plus you have to go to a certain floor to get a pass, and if the office to get the pass is closed, you have to go to another floor lower than that to get a pass and there's usually a LONG LINE. WHICH BASICALLY WASTES MORE OF YOUR CLASS-TIME TO BEGIN WITH.
It never made sense to me.
Now let me get to more personal shit.
When I was in high-school I had a lot of drama and shit mainly with the teachers and peers... the teachers constantly reminded me I wasn't gonna graduate, 10x worse than other students they'd tell this to. It seemed like they were bullying me and in to be honest, THEY WERE. Even my mother could see it and I told her everything that would happen at school. My case managers (Including one) of course wouldn't buy half of my shit, thinking I was lying to my mom about stuff that would go on in school. It was ridiculous.
As soon it got to my senior years, my mother was completely fed up with the school, and she tried to be nice and reasonable with them but it just got ridiculous. I ended up failing my senior year because of emotional troubles and stress, and being under constant pressure, (If any of my watchers remembered I had a constant amount of Vent art in my art work because of school. And by this point I actually wanted to dropout because of this, but of course my mother wouldn't let me.)
So eventually, I had to come back for a 2nd year of my Senior year because of my credits, and well I can tell you that wasn't any more fun than the last, because the classes I was in was with students who knew me that were juniors the previous year and were now seniors. I constantly kept getting asked "You didn't graduate?", "Why did you come back?" To which i constantly reminded them about my high-school credits and whatnot and I wanted to get the fuck out of that school with a fucking diploma in hand.
My mother also kept getting called by some of my teachers because I was being disobedient at this point but was simply trying to get work done, on-time. My mother at this point didn't care how bad I was acting she just wanted me to graduate already because she was tired of dealing with my school and wanted me to prevail. (Plus, I never did do homework, at all, I'm not even sure how I passed any school tbh, but I did homework in my study skills class so that kind of made up for it.)
Plus for some stupid reason the staff made a stupid rule to disable anyone from going out of class to go get assignments from other teachers or to go and speak to a teacher about an assignment. (It was mostly because of me, due to a friend that everyone though I was distracted by, when it wasn't the case, we just had a good working chemistry.)
I basically wanted to prove to all the people who said I wasn't going to graduate that I WAS GOING TO GRADUATE.
And so I did, even if it was a year late.
Now let me rub off some wisdom to everyone who is on this site and still in high-school, or have possibly dropped out or is attempting to drop out.
DON'T DO IT.
UNLESS YOU HAVE A PERFECTLY VALID REASON TO. (Albeit, a severe mental health issue, or something else)
School causes tons of stress to all, mainly students in general, but,
You, yourself have to prove to every jerk out there that tells you that you aren't going to make it, that they were wrong to begin with.