Essay About Middle School

All throughout middle school and high school, I had difficulties with grades. In middle school, the main reason was poor eye-sight that was not discovered as an issue until the end of middle school; I did not have to repeat 6th, 7th, or 8th grade due to this reason. After middle school, my mother and I thought and hoped that my issues with school and grades would no longer be present. But throughout high school, I consistently ditched and skipped classes, and also failed to complete around 90% of all homework assignments for all classes. As best as I can recall, there wasn 't really a good reason for this; I was simply lazy, not motivated, and generally unhappy with school, and to an extent, unhappy with myself. I failed nearly all of my classes throughout all four years at my main high school, Thomas Jefferson High School, and although …show more content…
I registered for one summer class at EGHS, and completed the class with an A. I attended EGHS for the Fall semester, and I was enrolled in five classes, two of which were concurrent enrollment classes for CCD, which gave me both high school (honors) credit, and college credit. I passed all five of the classes, and my grades ended up being 4 A 's and 1 B. The next semester, I only had 3 classes left in order to graduate high school and receive my diploma, so I took all of those 3 classes as concurrent enrollment classes, and went to school on campus at CCD and AHEC, which was a new and refreshing experience. Although my counselor was worried that I would struggle with the 3 college courses, I passed them all. I received 3 A 's and 1 B (there was a lab for the math class, which had a separate grade). I finished all of the classes and graduated, and received my high school diploma. Looking back at this story, I realize that my failing at TJHS was actually, what one would call, a "blessing in