Reflection: Bartram Trail High School

My life was suddenly changing right before one of the biggest changes: high school. I had more things to worry about than other high schoolers. I had to figure out how I was going to get home, how I was going to get the house clean before my mom got home, how I was going to get dinner started, all on top of getting my homework done. Due to this, I wasn’t as serious with my grades. I let them fall even though I knew I could do better. I was just way too busy to focus on school when there were more important things to focus on- my family. I slowly found out how to balance everything to get my grades up. I had to learn how to balance my life to make myself happy while keeping up my

The transition into high school remains one of the hardest obstacles that I have faced. It was difficult for me because the curriculum and rigor of the English courses I took in middle school were not as equal with what had been taught by the middle school affiliated with my high school. Attending a new school and trying to find where I fit in, while also struggling academically, created a stressful environment. I was very nervous to ask for help since I had

Major changes in my life have affected my high school career, but a large impact came from the death of my father in eighth grade. Before his passing, I was an average A/B student in middle school and even elementary school, which quickly changed in 8th grade when my classes became too hard for me to handle. I decided the best thing for my mental health was to drop out of my higher level classes. This lead to being in standard classes throughout my first year of high school with minimal effort from my part. After constantly missing school, I failed my second quarter. Instead of bouncing back from this, it pushed me down, making me believe I would never be able to recover. Without any motivation, I ended my ninth grade year with a grade point average of 1.4.

Growing up, I’d always been expected to do well in school. Which isn’t out of the ordinary, every parent wants their child to be successful and have a beneficial career. So, since good grades were what my parents expected that’s what I got. All throughout elementary, I strived to do my absolute best in every subject. At my sixth grade graduation I was awarded the Presidential Award for Academic Achievement, in my junior high years I did well as well. My eighth-grade year I achieved my goal of obtaining a 4.0 G.p.a. The first year of high school was nerve-racking but I still managed to keep my grades up. However, Sophomore year was definitely a bump in the road for me. In all my ten years of being in school (including head start and kindergarten)

When I was in elementary school, I often struggled academically. Whenever I did not understand a lesson in class, I felt inadequate compared to my peers. This self doubt carried on with me into middle school. I failed

About four years ago, I was just starting my first year of high school. During my previous tenure in middle school, I was basically an average student with multiple C’s and barely passing classes. So when I entered high school, I was not that enthusiastic about it and I continued the trend of not really caring about my grades in the 9th grade. As I became more aware of the opportunities I could get by receiving good grades, I began to actually care more about school and tried to get good grades. I began to do something that I never did before,

The first obstacle had to face are my parent divorce. When this obstacle happened I was depressed and not do that good in school. My aunt had to take to with her friend that was an therapist I only went for one day, when it finish the therapy I realized that my life is not over just for a dilema. I was more relief and more ambitious to do all my work and pass all of my classes. The second obstacle is that I would struggle at school is turning in my work late when it was due the next day. Then, I had to overcome it by, making an agenda to keep my work on track and test to study for the agenda really helped me alot. My last dilemma is that I would work during school because me and my family depend on my dad sending money when sometime he wouldn't send us money. Me and my bigger sister would always try to find a job to help my mom to pay bills etc. Another obstacle is trying my best to have good grade and study in a correct way. I try to keep up my grade but sometimes it's hard. I sometimes

After almost 12 years in the Napavine School District I have had many different experiences. I think the Napavine High School is a pretty good school, although I don’t have experience with other schools. I do think there is some changes and improvements that the Napavine High School could use. One of the main issues I think the school has is the amount of core classes required and the total number of credits required.

In middle school, teachers expected less of you and were more lenient if you turned in things late but to avoid turning in things late I had a period of Academic Coaching where I got help on assignments. In middle school, I had a lot of trouble in English, Math and Keyboarding (covers). In high school, your work is expected the day its due. So far, I’ve continued to have trouble in English (Shakespeare), and Math (Algebra I & II, and Geometry). It helps to have teachers that support you, I have had several supportive people at school such as: Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Gulliemart, Ms. Skeen, Mr. Hastings, and Mrs. Franks. These people are willing to step in when I need encouragement or emotional

Ever since elementary school, academic success has come very easily to me; I breezed through first through eighth grades, gathering a multitude of All A Honor Roll Awards. In ninth grade, I began to have larger amounts of homework and had little time especially while juggling Lincoln Douglas Debate on top of it all.

The transition from middle school to high school was difficult for me. I’d gone to very a progressive middle school where the students basically got to choose their own curriculum. I’d never had grades or a standard structure of any kind to measure my academic performance. Saint Mary’s, my high school, is college prep so the teachers move quickly, I am graded on everything, and expectations in general are much higher. For all of ninth grade I felt like I had been tossed into the deep end without knowing how to swim, and my grades reflected that mentality. Summer before tenth grade, I knew I couldn’t continue performing so poorly, so I began to study and to try and get a jump start on the next year’s curriculum. When school started I put much

Since my first day at Childersburg High School I have been very pleased by the atmosphere that the staff and administration strive to provide for us. From the AP classes to the great teachers and all the way to the team sports that I was involved in, my time at CHS has been one of the most wonderful times of my life. I have learned many things here and above all some of the most important things are hard work and dedication and time management.

I have been thinking things over, and I have come to a semi-conclusion. I am leaving Boscobel High. I want to say I am extremely grateful to my teachers for being there, and helping me with the after effects of being sick for such a horrendously long time. I thank them for everything that they have been trying to do, and I wish I could live up to those standards. With these last couple weeks of school, I was not only fighting physical illness, I was also being bullied, teased, and excluded. I am not trying to whine, but I do have to say that the “sticks and stones” ideology seems like the biggest pile of rubbish since the Star Wars Holiday Special. Many of the people, who I thought of as friends, have excluded me. The few, whom I still respect, are leaving next year anyway.

Going through middle school my comprehension has not always been so great. Moving out of the small town of Gainesville, Florida I figured it was time for a fresh start. Attending West Orange High School in Winter Garden, Florida I knew passing the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) was a requirement for graduation. My first two years of high schools I’ve had bad experiences with my teacher Mrs. Marquez not because they didn’t care but the fact that they stereotype all reading classes of having horrible behavior. Not even taking the time to explain to us how to comprehend. I had only two years to pass FCAT because after sophomore year they didn’t give the test junior nor senior year, and not passing would get you automatically put

In junior High School, things started to turn around for me. Although I was still placed in lower level classes, I developed a love for learning. In the years to come from Junior High to High School, I had a strong urge to make up for lost time. One class I started to excel in was the one I used to have the most trouble with, Mathematics. It seemed as though the once boring and complex equations now seemed meaningful and simple. As I progressed into 8th grade, I was able to advance to normal classes. I felt that the hard work I put in was finally paying of. At this point, I felt that I could handle a higher level. At the end of 8th grade, I took the necessary procedures and tests to try and get into honor - level courses in 9th grade. After taking a summer course of Algebra 1 and several tests I was able to succeed and take the classes. The experience was great. I felt that I was finally going the right direction