Personal Narrative: An Individualized Education Program

I walked into my school with confidence on the first day of my junior year. I walked down to my advisory with a big, bright smile on my face grinning from ear to ear that this school year would be an excellent year. When my advisor, Ms. Taverna gave me my schedule, I noticed I had two teachers in two of my classes (AP literature and algebra two) instead of one. That's when I realized that I was still under the 504 plan that was placed on to me in middle school. A 504 plan is similar to an I.E.P. (an Individualized Education Program), but a 504 plan is accommodations that help the individual student successes in the classrooms. My heart dropped because I was still seen as incapable to learn under the law. In my previous years of high school, KIPP never actually put me into separate testing or even put me in the group with the other 504 kids, I wasn't also in the same classes with them. The sudden realization that I was still a part of the 504-group made me feel like I wasn't as smart as I was made out to be by my teachers and my peers in the previous years. …show more content…
(Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) because I was an extremely hyper seven-year-old. As a result of my misdiagnosis, I was given an I.E.P., which caters to students with special needs. As a result, I was placed in special classes throughout most of the elementary school. This made me not want to work hard and grow in school. In middle school, they changed the I.E.P. to a 504 plan because I showed that I could learn, but I still didn't show that I could go without extra assistance in my classes. Now as a current junior I didn't have that problem, at least I thought I