Personal Narrative: My Educational Journey

My educational journey consisted of more bad and ugly than good. Especially in elementary school. I was timid none the less but if I could some up the 5 years in one word, the word would be isolation. It started in the first grade when something awful happened. While putting away my backpack, three girls pushed me into the cubby closet we put our bags in. They held their body weight against the door so I could not get out. I was in there for a good minute screaming and hitting the door. My teacher came and opened it and scolded the girls. The next week the parents of the three girls were mad at; my parents, my teacher and myself. They demanded my removal from the class. I could not wrap my mind around this, nor could anyone else. They shoved me in there for no reason, I was the victim. I was put into a small class of about fifteen kids, kids who had been bullied as well. We all learned on the same level as the other kids, just in a small group. During recess they called us dumb, even though we learned all the same …show more content…
We moved to Kyle during my second semester of 6th grade. I saw this as an opportunity to re-create myself because I had no friends back where I was from. I made two friends at Chapa Middle School, but I soon had to leave them when they opened Simon middle school. I was upset about this change because Simon was a uniform school. I had just come from Paredes Middle School, whom also had a strict uniform policy. This upset me but I soon got over it when I began seventh grade. My learning skills became better and I got all A’s. I excelled and had many friends. My metacognition had also gotten better. I had known more about my learning strengths and abilities. For example, I loved English; I was quite good at it. I did not like math, I did not do so well with numbers. I tried to forget the past and look to a new begging in High School, but new complications came my