Anyone who has transferred schools knows that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach on the very first day, except for me that feeling was horrendous. Imagine coming to a place completely new to you, you hardly know a soul, and you have no clue where anything is. Well, that was me sophomore year.
My freshman year I attended Althoff Catholic high school, for whatever reason it was. I played football in the fall, played the drums for the school band, and played baseball in the spring. I had a group of friends I thought I’d have till the end of time, friends from grade school, others from classes and sports. We were probably the closest group of friends anyone could have imagined, we hung out nearly every chance we got, went to varsity …show more content…
In the beginning I was so against it, it wasn 't even funny. But that soon changed. At Althoff my grades were struggling horribly, but it wasn 't me needless to say. It was not an instance where the student just wasn’t giving effort, or they just didn’t do their homework. I did my homework every single night and studied my ass off every opportunity I had, but it still wasn’t enough. Midway through the year me and a really close friend were accused of cheating on homework, ironic because I didn’t know you could cheat on homework considering the fact that it was meant to be done at home. Anyway, our answers were completely different throughout the entire worksheet except for one, which we both had worked on in the lunch hour prior to class. Turns out that one problem we worked together was so completely wrong and not even in the ballpark that it was enough to accuse us of cheating. Then came the meeting with us two students, our parents, the teacher, and the principal. We were told we were accused of cheating and that we were being placed on probation for the rest of our “Careers” at althoff, the next three years. Being placed on probation at Althoff meant that you must maintain at least a 3.0 G.P.A, have no referrals, and no issues inside or outside of class, and failure to maintain those would result in a dismissal from Althoff for the rest of your high school
My freshman year I attended Althoff Catholic high school, for whatever reason it was. I played football in the fall, played the drums for the school band, and played baseball in the spring. I had a group of friends I thought I’d have till the end of time, friends from grade school, others from classes and sports. We were probably the closest group of friends anyone could have imagined, we hung out nearly every chance we got, went to varsity …show more content…
In the beginning I was so against it, it wasn 't even funny. But that soon changed. At Althoff my grades were struggling horribly, but it wasn 't me needless to say. It was not an instance where the student just wasn’t giving effort, or they just didn’t do their homework. I did my homework every single night and studied my ass off every opportunity I had, but it still wasn’t enough. Midway through the year me and a really close friend were accused of cheating on homework, ironic because I didn’t know you could cheat on homework considering the fact that it was meant to be done at home. Anyway, our answers were completely different throughout the entire worksheet except for one, which we both had worked on in the lunch hour prior to class. Turns out that one problem we worked together was so completely wrong and not even in the ballpark that it was enough to accuse us of cheating. Then came the meeting with us two students, our parents, the teacher, and the principal. We were told we were accused of cheating and that we were being placed on probation for the rest of our “Careers” at althoff, the next three years. Being placed on probation at Althoff meant that you must maintain at least a 3.0 G.P.A, have no referrals, and no issues inside or outside of class, and failure to maintain those would result in a dismissal from Althoff for the rest of your high school