I just wanted to give my perspective on this, since my situation is not entirely normal either.
I was born a week or so after the deadline date that separates whether a child will go into school in one year or the next. I was admitted into preschool with the students that should have been in the year ahead of me, however.
Then, my family had to get permission from the principal of the school I went to for kindergarten and 1st grade to let me in with the earlier year, else I'd have to either repeat preschool or do nothing for a year.
In the end, I was admitted with the kids typically a year or two older than me.
For 2nd grade, I went to a new school - and the first school I'd been to that classified as a public school.
Boy, what a nasty wake-up call by the world.
Bullies set in immediately, since I was the insecure little girl who was:
1. Younger than everyone else.
2. Very shy (both because most people had been at that school for 1st grade too, and also because that was just my personality).
3. Sure of her opinions of right/wrong. (Case in point: while still in grade school, some girls tried to get me to steal something. I refused. So they bullied me.)
I stayed in that school until middle school, though. And of course, then it got worse. "Friends" back-stabbed me in ways I would never have imagined. When I was injured for a period of time, people tripped me into lockers and down stairs, and threw things at me. One took my backpack and ran with it, dropping it further down the hallway so I had to run and get it.
Yep, this is what happens in our town, in our school districts.
It has greatly affected my ability to socialize with people and form relationships with them.
So I transfered to Uni. I was not a skipper, which I am actually very grateful for, even though 7th grade was the worst year of the bullying, because I have always been one of the three most-young students in my class, before the skippies at Uni. I'm still younger than many of the skippies!
The school has emotionally and academically helped me, since I am no longer bullied for doing my homework, but I am very glad I did not skip. Looking back, even though middle school was the worst part of my short life, I was not ready for high school.
I am aware some may be. I just wanted to share my situation.
I just wanted to give my
I just wanted to give my perspective on this, since my situation is not entirely normal either.
I was born a week or so after the deadline date that separates whether a child will go into school in one year or the next. I was admitted into preschool with the students that should have been in the year ahead of me, however.
Then, my family had to get permission from the principal of the school I went to for kindergarten and 1st grade to let me in with the earlier year, else I'd have to either repeat preschool or do nothing for a year.
In the end, I was admitted with the kids typically a year or two older than me.
For 2nd grade, I went to a new school - and the first school I'd been to that classified as a public school.
Boy, what a nasty wake-up call by the world.
Bullies set in immediately, since I was the insecure little girl who was:
1. Younger than everyone else.
2. Very shy (both because most people had been at that school for 1st grade too, and also because that was just my personality).
3. Sure of her opinions of right/wrong. (Case in point: while still in grade school, some girls tried to get me to steal something. I refused. So they bullied me.)
I stayed in that school until middle school, though. And of course, then it got worse. "Friends" back-stabbed me in ways I would never have imagined. When I was injured for a period of time, people tripped me into lockers and down stairs, and threw things at me. One took my backpack and ran with it, dropping it further down the hallway so I had to run and get it.
Yep, this is what happens in our town, in our school districts.
It has greatly affected my ability to socialize with people and form relationships with them.
So I transfered to Uni. I was not a skipper, which I am actually very grateful for, even though 7th grade was the worst year of the bullying, because I have always been one of the three most-young students in my class, before the skippies at Uni. I'm still younger than many of the skippies!
The school has emotionally and academically helped me, since I am no longer bullied for doing my homework, but I am very glad I did not skip. Looking back, even though middle school was the worst part of my short life, I was not ready for high school.
I am aware some may be. I just wanted to share my situation.