I would never have imagined that I would be a high school dropout. Although I came from a single-parent household‚ grew up in a poor neighborhood and even lived in a homeless shelter once as a young child‚ I knew I would defy the odds. I tested into a gifted and talented program where I learned to speak French at second grade‚ sing in the chorus in third‚ and became a concert violinist by the time I entered middle school. I joined chess and French club and became a State-competing varsity athlete
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Jonathan Matthews bowed and returned to his seat. As the applause died down I counted how many people before me had to go up in front of the class. Our less-than-ordinary Health teacher has decided that we should go in alphabetical order by first name. That means that next up is Kim Hunter‚ then Kristy Smith‚ Liam Johnson and finally me‚ Lisa Williams. Everyone around me was shuffling papers and looking over spreads of information on large rectangles of thick card. Those who left everything to the
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As a high school student‚ I have to put much thought into the future. I was born in Guatemala‚ but I was raised in Baton Rouge‚ Louisiana all my life. We came from a very poor place where we had nothing‚ education was low‚ crime was high‚ and food was scarce. When we first came here we honestly didn’t have much. My Mother and I didn’t know English but at the time I was only 3 years old. My mother was carrying my sister so it was very tough at the time for her to find a job because she was expecting
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Math Problems Sometimes the most obvious person is the one you forget to ask. I was a fourteen year old boy‚ going to middle school in San Antonio‚ Texas. I was in advanced classes‚ and had never gotten below a high B on my report card. Throughout my whole life‚ I had only failed a few assignments and‚ to be honest‚ wasn’t used to having to work hard. When things started getting harder‚ I wasn’t ready. I was able to pass math with help from my parents‚ who showed me that parents are your biggest
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resides a school called Agnes Macphail Public School. The school is named after Agnes Campbell Macphail‚ a Canadian politician who served as the first female Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons. The school‚ founded in 1981‚ stood for many of the same things that Macphail did‚ including her commitment to greatness. Macphail‚ the MP‚ made ripples in equality and Canadian politics with her penal reforms ‚ while Macphail the PS is one of several Toronto Gold Eco Schools and strives
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When I first came to this school‚ I was in second grade. I can’t believe I was at this school for 6 years. I can’t believe i’ve been here for about 6 years. I never thought I would be in Atwater for this long‚ since before my family moved. From house to house and I going from school to school. Throughout the years at Bellevue I didn’t have a tough time making friends‚ but the hard thing was watching them move away. Well some of them. The good thing is I still have those friends today‚ the ones I
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Growing up in the household‚ that I was lucky enough to have‚ made me the person I am today. They helped me grow up and helped me find out whom I really am. Attending high school did not really change me but put me around the people that I knew I would like or did not like. High school introduced me to new hobbies‚ activities and just how to appreciate life in general. Let’s start off in my early childhood. Growing up I had the biggest dreams like becoming an astronaut. As I kept older I looked
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upon them as “the younger kids.” As age pushed me forward‚ so did my attitude. Within this photo I saw an excited teenager‚ a teenager who was confident and relieved from his success. He had worked hard for his win and was overjoyed to represent his school. How could there have ever been a time that I let others beat
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goes into the school gate‚ lots of other students greet her warmly‚ she has to stop a few times in order to respond. All the details show that Alice is such a popular student. However‚ things were so different when she came to this school at first. Three month ago‚ Alice stood in front of her new high school gate‚ “East Vancouver High School”. Her father recently got a job here and she had to move here form New Brunswick. Today was her first day. She had to admit this high school was as beautiful
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High school was an especially stressful time in both my academic life and personal life. For almost the entirety of my high school career‚ I was in a constant battle for the top spot of the class with one of my closest friends. Both him and I were able to maintain a consistent 4.0 GPA throughout our freshmen to junior years and due to this‚ grades were an emotionally taxing subject for both of us. For most people‚ an A-minus is a fantastic grade and would be enthusiastically accepted‚ however‚ for
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