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Personal Narrative: What I Learned From A Public School

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Personal Narrative
I got a 68% percent on a history test. My teachers, even some of the teachers that I favor dearly, look at me with their mean and vicious eyes. I try to greet them in the nicest and sweetest way as I can but never get the genuine reply I want. I go to some of my classmates to talk to them about my struggle until I realized I don’t have my go-to friend. That was my life 2015 was the year when I finally got into a prestigious private school called Collegiate School, having just transferred from a public school. The common wisdom that people had been that private school’s curriculum was more hectic and more difficult than that of a public school’s. It did not take long for me to notice that there was truth to that saying. …show more content…

Furthermore, these group of friends hung out so much that they extended their friendship outside of school. They did activities that included shopping with each other, playing sports and activities with each other, or even spending vacations with each other. Another important thing that almost every classmate attended was the parties. Most classmates hosted many bar mitzvahs and I never got the chance to be invited into one. Once I saw that I was not going to have any friends to talk to, to share feelings with, or even to confide secrets with, the devastation was arising within me and the idea of becoming a complete outsider was also kicking in. The advice that I received from my parents was that I needed to stay in my lane. In other words, I had to depend on myself and mind my business. All in all, I had to force myself to just go to school for the great education, excluding the social life. It was a horrible time for me. Although there were some classmates who actually saw what I was facing and tried to help me out by introducing themselves, they never really showed true friendship towards me which made me feel demolished.
Being accepted into a new school is like entering a whole new world and forcing yourself to adapt to its system. Not only is this extremely hard for some people but it

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