Personal Narrative: How School Changed My Life

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At one point in time i went through moments when i didnt feel like doing anything in result i went into a deep dark place. When I was younger, I had a rough time in school I never wanted to go. It started at home and carried on into my schooling.
After my mom and dad divorced, I went into a deep depression and it affected me severely, especially when it came to school. I was used to doing things like going over homework with my parents together and just studying . Going to school and getting a education was always a big thing in my house as i was growing up. Unfornetly once my parents split everything went down hill I started avoiding everything school related. I didn't want to do anything that requeried me to do alot of work, I would goof around and do just enough to get by. Whenever I was actually at school, I really wouldn't take it too serious I wouldn't do homework like i was supposed too and I would barely pay attention in class. I would either goof arround …show more content…

Even though I was at this alternative school, I still wasn't taking it too serious, which was very foolish of me only because I knew how serious it was at this point especially since it was my senior year. I just felt like I was so far behind that it was impossible and pointless to catch up. I ended up going to this alternative school for 2 years before it hit me that this is the real deal. I buckled down and started payng attention in my classes, and even started taking night clases to get more learning in. I finally passed all my proficiencies except the math one. But I obviously still couldn't graduate so I started looking into alternative online schooling, That's when I found out about Penn Foster. I did a lot of research on the school and found out that by deciding to attend Penn Foster I was able to catch up on everything I didn't take seriously when I was actually in public and alternative

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