Almost a Dropout by Alicia Pittard

I remember when I first came to Cedar Shoals High School as a freshman. I really do not remember being scared to come to high school because I think that I was ready to come up here with my sister. I had plenty of relatives to come to the school also. It really was not that difficult to meet new people. However, there was something I really made a big mistake in, my grades. I had a bad attitude and thought that nobody could tell me what to do even though I had my sister and cousin to help me.

I remember that I use to come in to class, go to sleep, do no work, and get put out of my class, especially my one of my math classes. I use to think that my math teacher did not like me because he use to put me out of class because I did not want to do what he said. I had to really turn that lifestyle around and grow up because I knew that I would not make it in life like that.
I know how my family was very upset with me because of my grades and what was going on in school. I remember them trying to help me in school. They had the graduation coach, Mrs.Seay, watching me in most of my classes to make sure that I was doing my work and that I was not going to fail any more classes so I could graduate in ‘09. So I hope all you 9th graders see that your grades are nothing to play with because it seems like you have to graduate from high school to do something in life.

But trust me, you do not want to get behind in high school especially your 9th grade year. Just come up here, do your work and listen to your teachers, be= cause your the students and they are the teachers. Teachers have got theirs; they don’t have anything to worry about, but you are the one that have to get yours so that you can get up out of here and be something one day. The chance will come around for you to be grown and do what you want to do, but right now just do your work. I know that it not easy to do.

So far, I have learned from my bad choices that trying to be grown will not get anywhere. The reason why I say that is because of the situation I put my self in now and it is not a good one. I have learn from it so right now I have to play catch-up so that I can still graduate in 2009. At one point in time, I was going to drop out of school because I felt that school was not for me. This was because I did not want to come to school and do my work. I have learned from one of the biggest mistake I have made.