Not a joke by Diamonny Colbert

The 1st day of school, August 2007. It was my freshman year and I was very scared. This was a new beginning, a new environment, and a whole new start. This is the time where you have to grow up and take things more seriously.
My first semester was easy: easy classes and easy teachers just like pre-k. I passed all my classes but on into the next semester I still thought everything was so easy. I did not take it so seriously. I was skipping class, not going to class, getting tardies and talking all the time. I failed 3 of my classes which caused me not to make it to the 10h grade. That is the worst feeling ever to know you didn’t pass your grade. Summer school was my only choice but you could only take one class so that kind of did me some good. I didn’t want to go to summer school but I had to suffer the consequences because I decided I wanted to horse around at school.
High school had always been a major struggle for me. As I went through the years I failed more and more classes. I had to go to summer school every year, I really hated it but it was always my fault and nobody to blame. They offered this opportunity throughout the school year called 5h period. 5th period is just like a 5th class but you’re just making up classes that you failed. That helped out a lot of people including me.I made alto of bad decision, talking back to my teachers which would cause me to get ISS or OSS. Throughout all of my years, I had 26 write up’s which is horrible. I thank I have had Oss the most. I got into a lot of fights and arguments and they definitely don’t play that. I’m very luck to still be at school and not at an alternative program. I just hated myself for putting myself through all of those struggles, knowing that I was capable of better things. I just keep me a motto “Never give up”, and I stuck to that. My senior year I didn’t have to take no 5th period classes and I only had 3 academic classes. I had caught up because I didn’t want anything holding me back from graduation. I had passed all of my graduation tests on the first fry so really there wasn’t anything at all holding me back.
I would say to the incoming freshman, don’t take high school as a joke because it really isn’t. High school is not easy, you have to work hard to get somewhere in life and high school is definitely the place to work hard, its jus the beginning stage of college. But most of all never give up.