Well guys, it’s been a long, rocky road with hundreds of sharp, spikey rocks at the bottom, but we made it somehow, and that’s great. For me personally, this experience has been an experience. I’ve had relationships, I’ve hated people, I’ve made one or two friends. Enough about that; I’d rather discuss the positives that this school has brought me.
A New Environment
This school has given me a new environment compared to my old one, where it’d be clouded bathrooms engulfed in smoke, classrooms full of sleeping teachers and kids, kids teaching students, or teachers telling kids about their “nightlife.” “I know it’s shocking but true. This place gave me a real education. While I do wish I had more science classes, it still has given me a good place to learn and grow as a person.
Friends
I know I’m a pretty cool guy. I mean, I’m funny, smart, humble, and awe-inspiring—some pretty good qualities if I do say so myself. But at my last school anyone that wasn’t affiliated with a gang or group was fodder, and I wasn’t the type of person to join one of those groups if you catch my drift, so I was alone for my middle school and high school experience, but here there wasn’t anything like that, and even with my crippling anxiety and my Asperger’s, I was able to overcome it and made 2 friends.
Opportunities
At my last school the only opportunities you get are always shot down by defunding and no adult supervision. For instance, there were no clubs because what type of adult would want to stay with the same twerps that whine and moan all day, and who would want to fund a school where a lot of the students are toting an AK or a Glock everywhere? It’s not fair, but that’s what it is like. The state won’t try and help schools like that, whereas here there are clubs, funding, trips, and scholarship opportunities, and schools won’t look right past you when you’re applying to colleges.
I know there aren’t that many reasons, but I only needed one to come here, and if I had to do my life over again, I most likely would still want to come here even though it has its faults, but we humans do too. I hope whoever’s reading this gets the same opportunities as me and can hope for a brighter future. Signing off forever is Quentin McClinton
This is so true. My last school was not the best, and if I had to do it all over again. I’d choose MSA still!