Turning point

The “KID” “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy”-Martin Luther King Jr. It is when a challenge comes that you determine how strong you are and the willpower which you have to succeed, everybody can be successful when challenges are easy, but it really counts when life is hard. Coming to James Weldon Johnson Middle School has been the biggest turning point in my life so far, before I was a shy fifth grader, but when I came to this magnificent middle school I met encouraging teachers who helped me change for the better. Life in fifth grade at Susie E. Tolbert was very challenging, and to make it tougher I didn’t have very many friends. I was very shy and scared to go talk to people to make friends. At lunch one day a girl came to talk to me, and I quickly gathered my things and sprinted out of the cafeteria! The ones who were my friends were not true, and were their only there because of my materialistic things. I was very introverted and scared to go talk to people, and make new friends. In Language Arts, Paideia Seminars were my least favorite because I would always get zeros, I would never talk in the discussion and teachers never pushed me to succeed. My teachers didn’t really care about me either; they never urged me to answer questions and left me alone to be that one lonely kid. Going to James Weldon Johnson Middle School was about to be the biggest challenge in my life, and I still wouldn’t have any friends to help me through the struggle. “Mom please I don’t want to go, I don’t have any friends and there are way too many people there”, these words rang around the house every morning before I went to school. Two weeks after school started, Mrs. Peterson, my Language Arts teacher, asked me to stay after class so that she could talk to me. Upon hearing these words, fear rang in my mind, but unwillingly I stayed and awaited my fate! She told