Assignment 4- Eli Dyer

As a child, specifically in 2nd grade, I loathed school. The endless, monotonous experience bored me to tears. It wasn’t so much the learning that bothered me, but the lack thereof. Everything we did was easy, and nowhere more so than in English class. I already knew the content that we were learning. When the class would do independent work in workbooks, I was working on a 5th grade textbook, which I still completed without effort. Nothing I did in school every stimulated me, or even interested me.

It was at this point I began considering the necessity of school. If I wasn’t going to learn anything, what was the point? The entirety of 2nd grade, I ceased my participation in school; it no longer mattered to me. The end result of that decision was 4 office referrals and being sent to SAFE twice.

It wasn’t until I was accepted and enrolled in the gifted and talented program at Tates Creek Elementary that I finally found some challenge and enjoyment in school. The program at Tates Creek Elementary continued to Tates Creek Middle, and then to the Academy. It’s how I’ve gotten to where I am today: enjoying school for the most part.