Military Tutoring Narrative

As I get off the bus from the long day of school, I head on over to the building ahead of me to now start with the next task in my day, tutoring. The school year had just begun a short while ago and I had to juggle the responsibilities of a new job and school work for the first time. Walking into the school, I saw the familiar faces of kids I worked with before when I previously volunteered on my free time. Once I settled into a classroom to start, students came in with their books and started to work away at their homework. All but one of the faces seemed familiar, so I checked to see who the new student was. “Hey, I’m Josiel. I’ll be a tutor for you this year. What’s your name?” “Ernesto, I’m in seventh grade.” “Nice, what are your interests when it comes to school?” “Nothing, school hasn’t really done much for me so I thought I would just go to the military instead.” Hearing this caught me off guard at that moment. “Wait, don’t you think it’s a bit too soon to decide to go off into the military?” But Ernesto continued, saying, “I mean, I haven’t been getting the help I need when it comes to school so I just thought my only real option would be the military.” Wondering how he came to this conclusion, I realized a huge difference there was between us, options. …show more content…
John’s Prep, a private high school focused on developing the whole person with its education, I had more options than I initially realized. Since the day that I’ve came to the school, I was provided with choices over classes or activities I could partake in. Unlike Ernesto, I had the choice on whether or not I wanted to pursue something like computer science in college, with classes I chose like Algorithmic Thinking, or even law, with taking classes such as Constitutional Law. Even bigger than that, I have a choice in what college I want to go to in the upcoming