Why is it that it always seems that everyone around me has had things better off? No matter where I go, those that are part of my life has all these amazing stories about their high school days and yet I'm left with nothing. They all seem to have had the portrayed image of what high school was supposed to be, especially their senior year. I've had more than my own share of crap. I'm turning 19 and I've been discharged from the Army. I've witnessed or had nearly 30 suicides in 4 years. I've been shot at, diagnosed with a lung condition, and lost my father all from the time that I started high school to now. I've had an anything but stellar public education. The teachers have no clue as to how to teach their subjects. They haven't been to school for it in years. Our administrators don't know what the hell they're doing. I want to know why, for once, we can't have something from our district or school that might actually mean something to those of us that are graduating and not to the faculty and staff. They want everything to be all about them. They don't see that by doing that they are not only hindering us, but also killing our spirit. My spirit has been crushed so many times by the Kansas City Missouri School District that I'm surprised I have a single fragment of it left. It's been over a year since Chris Ray killed himself and only a few weeks until the anniversary of Eloisa Mendez's death as well. At only 18 years of age, and I've been through so much. Kim, Caitlin, Morgan, Dani, Hannah, all of them seem to have had the picture-perfect high school experience. I've had anything but that. Yes, I started college early. So what? That only means that I want out of there as soon as I can. Again, yes, I graduate in exactly one month. But have you thought yet about the graduating classes after me? How much they're going to lose out on if things don't get straightened out like they need to be in this district? I can deal with the self-sacrifice, I've done it for so long, but the others is what I care about. I don't want them to have to.
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restlessCurrent Music: You're Gonna Miss This x Trace Adkins
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