The New School

Okay I thought. Everyone has their own style. My teacher, Mrs. Piotrowski, started talking to the girl and asking her questions about where she used to live and why she moved to our small town of Westampton, New Jersey. It’s not very often we get a new student, so I was excited to meet the new girl. As my other classmates settled…

Being the new kid at school is an experience many can relate to. It is extremely difficult to find your way in a crowd of people who have already found their own. So in my first year at school I was searching for a way to fit or get more connected with my new community. The way I found was not a path anyone else would have chosen for me nor was it one that many would completely understand. Basketball was what brought me closer to my school and helped me get involved my first year at Calhoun…

perspective of a normal life, but of how I saw myself as a person. I started my sixth grade year like any other eleven year old did. New school year. New classes, faces, and teachers. I was always that quiet, shy, person. I had good grades, perfect attendance, and an average social life. For the first weeks of school, I had already gotten used to my classes, as well as making new friends.…

When I first started high school, I truly thought that it would be a fresh start. My previous life in school surely wasn’t the easiest thing in the entire world. Junior High had just been one level of Hell after another. The people I was surrounded by weren’t the nicest. I quickly learned that they would take the side of whoever was stronger, so not me. This created many problems in my life, but the biggest one was named Ashley. Anyways, back to my freshman year of high school. I walk in the…

I sat on my bed and let out an exhausted sigh. I had to choose between staying at my home school, or going to a new middle school that had just opened up called Metro. My mother had first heard of Metro through a neighbor whose son was starting. She was told about the college prep techniques it offered, but it was the school’s connections to OSU that had her sold. Who better to send to the new middle school than me, her completely naive sixth grade daughter? She wanted me to get a head start,…

When you think think of high school what come to your mind? Parties every week,dances, or going to your school's football games. What if it was the reverse of all of that, mass fights at sporting events, over 100 arrests due to alcohol. These situations have been going on at Smith High School for the past couple of weeks. Problems with violence and alcohol abuse have spun out of control,so the school has taken drastic action to stop it. The school has introduced a new conduct toward student…

It was August 10,1933, school would be starting soon. Stacey and I would have to leave Great Faith to go to Jefferson Davis Elementary, an all-white school. I felt anxious about starting a new school especially one where Stacey and I would be the first colored kids to go there. I still thought about T.J in that horrible chain gang and what they would do to him. “Cassie you’d better get dressed the bus gonna be here soon,” said Stacey. The tall, yellow bus pulled at the side of the curb and the…

their children with the best education. However, transferring to a new elementary was a rough transition for me because the kids in my new school didn’t like yu-gi-oh and hot cheetos, their lives revolved around playing sports. Everyday after school I would come home looking very depressed, so my parents decided to sign me up for sports like basketball, football, and swimming. Out of all the sports that I played in elementary school,…

I had just entered a new school since my family had to move away from my old town because of work, and I knew that this is my year to make a difference. At my old school I never really had any friends. I was just a target for the entire school to pick on, but this time it is going to be different. I am going to be popular, I’m going to make friends, and this will be the best year ever. This new school was huge there was a clear difference from my little school in Cresco to this one just…

Starting A Whole New Life at School My name is Brooklyn Gohr and this is my story about when I began school in Nicollet. It all began when I moved two Nicollet back in July of 2013. I was in a strange new neighborhood that I had no clue about and knew nobody who lived around me, and knew nobody my age. I felt lost and confused, moving to a new place away from all of your friends is difficult and strange. I had nobody…