In the eighth grade, I remember that in less than a week I made half of the student body resent me. I had just moved to a new school in a new neighborhood, and I was eager to prove myself. On my first day, I walked into my favorite class – science and was the only person to answer the teacher’s questions. In my old school, I was learning something entirely different, but I still knew the answer because it was about my favorite subject. Everyone was pretty shocked, and I didn’t understand all the looks that my classmates were giving me.
It wasn’t until English class, my second favorite subject, that I finally understood. The class was in the middle of doing a project that our teacher had assigned on a book – The Giver. She told me that I didn’t have to participate because I wasn’t there since the beginning of the term. Being the nerd that I was and still am, I told my teacher to give me the assignment because I thought of it as a challenge. After two days, which was when the assignment was due, I came back with the project and book in my hands, ready to go. Everyone was shocked when they saw me, including my teacher. As she accepted my work in front of the whole class, I saw the looks they were giving me – awe and resentment. Awe that I did all the work they spent …show more content…
We found the solution in Penn Foster High School, an online school. It was a learning center where I could learn at my own personal pace. When I heard this, I was excited and yet terrified. This was a big decision. It meant not going to a normal high school where I could be taught by teachers in person five days a week and be around kids my own age. I was going to have to learn a lot of material by myself and work hard to get things done, but I was determined to try this path because I felt that it was right for
It wasn’t until English class, my second favorite subject, that I finally understood. The class was in the middle of doing a project that our teacher had assigned on a book – The Giver. She told me that I didn’t have to participate because I wasn’t there since the beginning of the term. Being the nerd that I was and still am, I told my teacher to give me the assignment because I thought of it as a challenge. After two days, which was when the assignment was due, I came back with the project and book in my hands, ready to go. Everyone was shocked when they saw me, including my teacher. As she accepted my work in front of the whole class, I saw the looks they were giving me – awe and resentment. Awe that I did all the work they spent …show more content…
We found the solution in Penn Foster High School, an online school. It was a learning center where I could learn at my own personal pace. When I heard this, I was excited and yet terrified. This was a big decision. It meant not going to a normal high school where I could be taught by teachers in person five days a week and be around kids my own age. I was going to have to learn a lot of material by myself and work hard to get things done, but I was determined to try this path because I felt that it was right for