Failure Of F's In High School

It was senior year, and I was ready to dropout! With B’s in all my classes except calculus, I was going to fail my senior year. I wasn’t considered your typical math genius. But, that didn’t stop me from believing that I could still pass her class, and graduate with the rest of my classmates. But, what I learned that year throughout everything was to never quit. After a year of trying to bring up my grade, by pay attention, studying, and by doing extra credit, but at the end it just seemed that, that wasn’t enough. Even though I worked really hard in her class, I just couldn’t manage to pass her exams. F’s is all I would get, and the fact that they were worth 60% of our grades made it worse. So, I said to myself maybe it’s time for me to just dropout. If my older had dropped out, why couldn’t I? If he was doing somewhat okay working at a gas station, why wouldn’t I do okay?
Today I was going to skip 3rd block for the first time, and just not come back to North View ever again. As I snucked through the back where my car was, I started to feel stupid… stupid because I wasn’t going to graduate with the rest of my class, stupid because I was just going to be another dropout in the family. But, as soon as I was going to leave a teacher stopped me. “Hey,” she said. “Aren’t you supposed to be in