My High School Education

I attended high school at a very small school in AR. I was a typical high school student, anxiously awaiting graduation, doing only what was absolutely necessary to get finished with school. I was making good grades and I certainly thought that I was getting an excellent education that was preparing me for college, until things changed during my Jr. year.

I was taking typical Jr. year courses. The size of most classes consisted of twelve to twenty students. I ended up in an English class with sixteen other students and a Spanish class with twelve other students, under the instruction of the same teacher, who I will refer to as Ms. Smith. I can’t quite explain what went wrong with this particular teacher, other than the fact that teaching was the farthest thing on her mind. The first few weeks of t...