The school year was ending and I was excited to be going to the fourth grade. Little did I know my mind was shattered once my teacher pulled me aside one day and told me that I had to have a meeting with herself and my mother. During that meeting she broke the news to me and I felt like my heart was snatched from out of my chest, thrown on the floor and stomped on. Many thoughts raced through my mind at that moment, thought like, “How I was never going to move up with my friends,” “How ow my life felt like it was a year behind and I could never catch up,” it was just a huge disappointment to me. Obviously getting held back in the third grade was the worst thing to happen to me, but I eventually viewed it as a challenge. I told myself that
