Seventh Grade Failure

Sometimes in life, unexpected things happen and there are two different ways that you can react. You can either give up or you can overcome and persevere the obstacles that are in your way. By the end of seventh grade, I was in a situation exactly like this. During seventh grade, my motivation and drive to do anything in school was at an all time low. I felt as if school was useless and that I could use my time for something else and because of that, I failed the grade. At that point, I had two options. I could either give up and not care at all or I could get my stuff together and prove to everyone that I was not another person who fails and makes nothing out of school. I made a promise to myself that I would be a better person and a better

I finished eighth grade with great grades and I was more than ready to move on to high school. Little did I know the change between the two. Starting off ninth grade was okay. Then there was the point to where I started going back to the point where I lost motivation in myself and I was not doing all the work in school but luckily I straightened myself out and finished ninth grade. That year I also made the basketball team. Tenth grade was something else when it was combined with basketball. Balancing school work with practice and games was something that I have never dealt with before. There were times where I did not get home until eleven in the night and had to go to school the next day. The best thing about that is that I had a team behind me that would motivate me and continuously check grades. By the end of tenth grade, I felt as if basketball put me in a great place and pushed me to make the best grades as possible. I also made the basketball team again. When eleventh grade came around, my grades started off perfectly because a mixture of basketball and new teachers. When basketball season started, my grades started going down a bit because of multiple games in a