My high school, for a public school is one of the highest ranked in the state. I live in Michigan, but this area is a suburb. This is an extremely rich town, but it is not the town I live in. I am a school of choice kid. My mom sent me here because the education is better. I’m not struggling, I got a 3.8 every quarter, but the semester rounding pushed me to a 3.63. I find that I don’t relate with any of these kids, they talk about things that won’t mean anything in a year like boys, girls, gossip, clothes, shopping, etc. I wasn’t exposed to kids until I started here when I was 4, but when I got into my elementary school I was verbally abused (by the facility) and bullied so much that it’s left me a changed person. I am the way I am today because of it. A socially awkward 15 year old. I am to the point that I don’t want to be social, it takes too much out of me. It also took me until 8th grade to mentally recover from all the abuse I faced in elementary school. By recover I mean don’t randomly break down some nights.
I can relate to the middle class kids pretty well. They don’t care about the typical teenage stuff.
Bullying is bad here, I ignore it when it’s about me, but not everyone can do that. I had a friend actually commit suicide due to lack of overall acceptance last week. It’s really made me not have this sense of school pride I’m suppose to have.
I can’t talk about this anywhere in my life. The education is better here but is it worth my sanity? I have a cousin who will be in high school next school year who I could do clubs with if I left. I don’t have that here at my high school. My high school is too far away, I also can’t do EC’s now because I don’t live near anything and have no mode of transportation.
My district’s test scores are well above state average. This school’s are well below, and from what I’ve heard this school is on the ghetto side. My mom went to it and that’s why she didn’t want me there.