I thought this was a funny letter and pretty cute…wonder how many of the other kids expressed disdain for the system? 9/07/05
Dear me,
Today is September 7, 2005. Yesterday was the first day of my seventh grade career. Now I’m in Mrs. Peterson’s class writing myself this letter so I can remember who I was at the beginning of the year.
When I first came to school as a seventh grader, I felt no more different than I had felt at the beginning of summer, except for the fact that I am now under much more stress. I am currently writing a novel-it has 35 pages, and I hope to progress farther, but I have no time for writing my book, no time for friends, and no time for myself. Now that I have all honors classes, I have 100% more homework.
I suddenly realized that my life will be controlled by school until I grow up, and once I grow up, I will be controlled and restrained from living a grand life by the government, and whatever career I pick. I won’t get summers anymore, and I won’t have energy or time to go on vacations or work on my own things because of school, and later, because of the government and work.
Also, anything we learn over the years, we forget in the next years, so all this info about volcanoes, and all this science and class things I am certain to forget in the future. The things we remember in the future are usually ones taught by guardians or someone else who’s a large part of our lives.
I still remember the bit of info on survival that one of my older friends taught me. “If there are red worms in the water, that means the water is poisonous. If there are frogs living in the water, that’s a sign that it’s usually healthy enough for humans to drink with only a little bit of sickness.â€
In school, I have a lot of really hard classes like Journalism, and although it is going to be very stressful, I know I’ll improve my skills at newspaper reporting. I actually didn’t want to be working under Tiger tale staff; I wanted to improve in art, but the school won’t allow me to improve, because Smalowitz hasn’t hired a new art teacher.
Therefore, I will improve in a talent that I am never going to use. Even though I AM going into game design, there are tons of other options. School isn’t really some-thing I enjoy, it’s just that in order to get to college, I have to get good grades in my subjects which probably won’t be used in my lifetime.
Written by Rachael Shorb
(she’s in highschool now & HATES it with a passion but does well in all her subjects)