Moving to a new house can mean a lot of things. Of course, it means a few obvious things, like a new room and a new neighborhood. For me, however, it meant a new school, new friends, and starting your social life all over again.
When I was in the 7th grade, I was a student at Cesar Chavez Middle School. I wasn’t even supposed to be there. I had moved that year to a new home a good distance away from my school. I only continued to attend CCMS because my parents thought it was a suitable school for me and my younger sister. After my 7th grade year completed, however, the school somehow found out that we had moved out of the acceptable range and notified my parents that my sister and I would be unable to attend the following year. My parents talked to the principal and almost begged to let us stay, but they were told that there was no alternative to switching schools. We were simply too far away.
As I result of the School District putting its foot down, my sister and I were enrolled at University Middle School. I lost all of my closest friends, my favorite teachers, and my spot in the advanced classes I was taking. I made very few new friends in the one year I had left of middle school. I felt like a stranger amongst strangers. I had nobody to talk to, and no one to help me adjust. I was alienated, sitting by myself everywhere I went. I even dreaded lunch; eating is as boring as being in class if you don’t have people to chat with. People would make comments in class about how they didn’t like me solely because I was a new face. I was bullied and occasionally accosted by other students because I wouldn’t reply to their sarcastic questions and snide remarks. I tried to keep to myself, mostly by reading quietly whenever I could, or focusing on my class work. At CCMS, I was well ahead of my peers. I had even managed to take Algebra 1 in my 7th grade year, but because of my new home, I was now in what I considered to be very rudimentary classes. If I hadn’t moved, I could have been in the 8th grade Advanced Trigonometry course, and gone on to take Algebra 2 and Calculus in high school. I could have been in the top of my class, with the proper motivation. I could have gotten a full-ride scholarship to college.
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Sometimes, when people hear the words discipline, they picture kids gone wild. We did use gentle discipline. And in school and home have to a calm, peaceful feel to it. We also had a lot of fun. A lot of the preparatory works have to follow where discipline was concerned. We have to use to teach care of self, care of the environment, control of movement, and grace and courtesy. The sense of order, ...
Instead of those advanced classes, I got the basics again. I had a very average GPA, which I attributed to a lack of motivation; I stopped applying myself, because I personally felt that I had been cheated out of advancement simply because I lived somewhere else. In high school, I was still only able to get into Pre-AP classes, instead of AP. I wasn’t qualified for Calculus, which I had hoped to take just like my older sister had, so I had to take up a JROTC course instead.
Despite what could have been, I must say that I don’t particularly regret how things turned out. I may not have been one of the best in the advanced courses, but I was very well off in my basic classes. I was never below a 95 average in a few of my classes, and was never failing in any class. I got very high grades in my Math, English, and Social Studies classes in 8th grade because I already knew most of it. I had commendable grades in all of my Core Curriculum classes. I was one of the most accelerated readers in my English class and was the only student that managed to score a 100 on my English TAKS. I participated in a History Fair Competition as part of a small group of students chosen by the teacher to represent University Middle School, and we took first place easily. I also participated in the UIL Academic Competitions and placed in the top 3 for Spelling and Creative Writing, competing alongside my former classmates. I also managed to make a close group of friends for my final year of middle school that I’m still in contact with to this day. In high school, I was able to rejoin some of my old CCMS friends, and I managed to make quite a few new friends. The JROTC course that I took in place of Calculus gave me the discipline I felt I needed, helped in my decision to join the U.S. Army, and even introduced me to my current girlfriend of almost two years. I took part in the Competitive Drill Teams that JROTC had to offer; I was on the Unarmed Drill and Exhibition Team, Rifle Drill and Exhibition Team, and was Captain of the Physical Training Team. Before I graduated, I even managed to get promoted to the rank of Student Master Sergeant, in charge of the activities of Alpha Company students, which was made up of the JROTC students in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th period classes.
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I did lose some years of accelerated education because of the move, but I don’t count only losses. I did gain quite a bit later on because of what happened my 8th grade year, and credit it for the man I am today. I will always wonder in the back of my mind how things could have been, but I won’t ever regret where I am now.
