I am curious what everybody’s experience was during those years? Good, bad, somewhere in-between. I will start off by sharing my own experiences.
I really enjoyed every level of education. I changed schools a couple of times but I always pretty quick to get friends despite the fact that I am quiet and shy. When I was younger they actually had me in special education because they thought I had a learning disability. The truth is I just cared more about playing more than doing school work and didn’t really see a point to school.
So they had me reading Dr. Seuss and very basic math until about 4[SUP]th[/SUP] grade and then they figured out that I could actually do both very well but that I just didn’t want to do anything harder. I was a stubborn kid. I went from being in special education in 4[SUP]th[/SUP] grade to honors classes by 6[SUP]th[/SUP] grade. It was quite the turnaround. From then on I was mostly a 4.0 student but not the model student by any means.
Never could really cure that stubbornness. Teachers liked me for the most part but I got into trouble quite often or was associated in some way with trouble. I got caught cheating a couple of times or helping kids cheat because nobody would assume I would be the one doing it. I got caught passing notes and things like that because again the teachers didn’t think I would be the type of person doing that stuff. I just didn’t see the point to tests and some of the overwhelming rules so I didn’t really follow them. So besides the trouble, school was awesome.
As I said, I have always been pretty quiet, different and shy. That didn’t stop me from having a big social circle. I wasn’t partying or anything like that. I was just my own little social island that floated from clique to clique. I had good friends from all different backgrounds because again I just really didn’t recognize that there was a social order to things. I was oblivious to all the drama and all the gossip. I just got along with everybody and I didn’t care who people saw me affiliating with.
I had a couple people over the years that tried to bully me but it never worked. Like I said, I had a lot of good friends from many different backgrounds. If someone tried to bully me, I always had one or two good friends there to stand up for me. Many of those, I am still good friends with now. I am not a rebel trying to stick it to the system by any means. I just don’t fit into the mold they were trying to squeeze me into so I found my own way of doing things and it worked
I really enjoyed every level of education. I changed schools a couple of times but I always pretty quick to get friends despite the fact that I am quiet and shy. When I was younger they actually had me in special education because they thought I had a learning disability. The truth is I just cared more about playing more than doing school work and didn’t really see a point to school.
So they had me reading Dr. Seuss and very basic math until about 4[SUP]th[/SUP] grade and then they figured out that I could actually do both very well but that I just didn’t want to do anything harder. I was a stubborn kid. I went from being in special education in 4[SUP]th[/SUP] grade to honors classes by 6[SUP]th[/SUP] grade. It was quite the turnaround. From then on I was mostly a 4.0 student but not the model student by any means.
Never could really cure that stubbornness. Teachers liked me for the most part but I got into trouble quite often or was associated in some way with trouble. I got caught cheating a couple of times or helping kids cheat because nobody would assume I would be the one doing it. I got caught passing notes and things like that because again the teachers didn’t think I would be the type of person doing that stuff. I just didn’t see the point to tests and some of the overwhelming rules so I didn’t really follow them. So besides the trouble, school was awesome.
As I said, I have always been pretty quiet, different and shy. That didn’t stop me from having a big social circle. I wasn’t partying or anything like that. I was just my own little social island that floated from clique to clique. I had good friends from all different backgrounds because again I just really didn’t recognize that there was a social order to things. I was oblivious to all the drama and all the gossip. I just got along with everybody and I didn’t care who people saw me affiliating with.
I had a couple people over the years that tried to bully me but it never worked. Like I said, I had a lot of good friends from many different backgrounds. If someone tried to bully me, I always had one or two good friends there to stand up for me. Many of those, I am still good friends with now. I am not a rebel trying to stick it to the system by any means. I just don’t fit into the mold they were trying to squeeze me into so I found my own way of doing things and it worked