Descriptive Essay On Middle School

A WHITE PERSEPECTIVE In sunny Alabama on a warm fall day in 1952 Rosie packs her backpack and gets ready for her first day of 6th grade at Richard Heights Middle School. Her mama clips in a baby pink bow in her curly golden hair, pinches her rosy red pale skinned cheeks, looks into her crystal blue eyes, kisses her soft small pink lips and sends her off to the bus stop for her first day of school. Rosie has always had a hard time at school making friends and thinks they all look and act the same. Her teachers were nice and her classes were small, still filled with privileged white girls and boys. For lunch and recess she sits under a tree by herself eating her peanut butter and jelly sandwich, munching on her carrot sticks and sipping on her apple juice. The bell rings and the kids line up to go back inside. Her next class was art, her favorite class, yet she wishes she could share such a fun class with a fun new friend. She looks around and sees the same old people in her class that she had last year. Towards the middle of class the school counselor walks in with a new girl named Jamie. Rosie doesn’t usually see colored people often in her town and she smiled and introduced herself with a big welcoming …show more content…
Rosie packs her bags that night with her mama and stays up late waiting for her papa to be asleep and gets ready to run. They sneak out the window and goes to Jamie’s. They end up staying there and not going to school till she figures out what’s next. Rosie doesn’t like the fact that she has to hide in so much fear that her papa will find her and continue to beat her and her mama, and she knows she can’t go back to school when the kids were making fun of her for hanging around a black girl. She wants to make a change and go somewhere new, but she’s not so sure how. The towns not happy with her and neither is her