Segregation In Middle School

Segregation has been a concept fed to children without its presence being realized for the longest of time. Growing up; Palo Alto has and still is been divided into two, the Paly side and the Gunn side. Each kid would grow up knowing their educational plan for up until they are eighteen. The children of different sides might have been in the same school as youngins, and they would ask in aspiration for their paths to be intertwined a little longer. As the different schools were said from their mouths, their hope fades and their personalities become engulfed by the bad rumors each has heard from the other school. They’ve either become the hotheaded jocks, or the overworked suicidal nerds. Tension between them arises as they try to defend their …show more content…
While JLS and Jordan had their rivalries against each other, Terman was off to the side fighting their internal battles. One thing about Terman was that it was unfairly imbalanced; there were two teams for each year and that team came with a group of teachers. There was always one good team and one bad. Miraculously, I was put on the worst teams each year. I had a range of interesting teachers - one who believed I cheated on a test with a girl who sat across the room from me on the day he wasn’t even there, with no indication from the substitute of such a thing. Another one who couldn’t accept my atrocious incompetence with the softball unit to the point where she believed I was faking my terrible hand-eye coordination and made me sit out for the rest of the unit and bringing my grade down drastically, and one who decided I could not be part of the higher lane in math class because of a degrading B, but somehow allowed people with C’s advance. The anger overwhelmed me and in 8th grade, I started becoming that student that they treated me like, minus the cheating part. I dropped participation altogether by not showing up to school