What Does Moving School Mean To Me

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School for me has been a bumpy ride. The ups have been fun and exhilarating but the downs have been terrible and treacherous. Making friends has always been easy for me but that is not the main part of school, it is about learning and showing your intelligence with letter grades. My experience with education has been negative because of family issues, uninteresting teachers, and constantly moving schools and homes.
My rollercoaster started at Montessori, my mother is the bread maker in the family, so I had to have somewhere to go while she was working. I remember having fun with the other children and always getting apple fritters that smelled of cinnamon with chunks of apples and strawberry milk with the nesquik rabbit on the bottle before
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After junior year I moved to Huntington Beach, California for my last year of high school and a high point of my roller coaster was being able to graduate on time even though a large amount of credits where not transferred. Teachers and administrative staff where never overflowing with support, I would always hear the same thing, with so many students it was difficult for them to keep track of me.
While moving states I also I moved every two years since my family was never stable enough to buy a home, making a total of twelve different living situations. Somewhere better than others and there were times in middle school and high school while in Oregon I was not in the position to have a quiet space to do homework. This affected my grades which affected how I saw education.
My experience with education may not have been the best because of family issues, uninteresting teachers, and constantly moving schools and homes. But knowing what I know now, I can make the best of a bad situation. Overall the bad outweighed the good and that is why I saw my education in a negative

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