Everyday is a Battle

When I was a kid, we switched schools quite often.

Let’s see…… I went to preschool near my home that we shared with both of my parents.

Kindergarten is a blur.

1st grade was spent at The Brenan Elementary School.

2nd Grade was spent at a private school.

Back to Brenan during 3rd and off we moved….All the way to the low end on 29th and King Drive. We would spend a year at Drake Elementary and the next three years at John J. Pershing.

I had a love/hate relationship with school. I had AMAZING teachers, yet I remember begging my mom to home school me. I particularly loved Science. I remember the teacher teaching us all about working in the lab, and I couldn’t wait to get my body in one of those lab coats!! But then there were my peers. My mom just didn’t understand.” She moved us away from the “bad” to what appeared to be the “better.” It was and it wasn’t. Everyday was a choice.

She didn’t see the daily struggles to fit in, to be seen, to BE….

She didn’t see the kids who were mean to me and didn’t accept me. Heck! I didn’t even accept myself back.

She didn’t see the boys I fought as a 1st grader.

She didn’t see that I didn’t have enough “of the right clothes” to fit in with the “popular crew,” yet didn’t quite fit in with the “unpopular crew” either. I was the outcast! So I thought……

She didn’t see the daily choices I had to make.

Fast forward to the birth of my children… I made so many vows to myself about my children.

I would never do this and never do that. Although l was successful in many areas, I forgot that they had to face this world one day.

They make a choice every single day; to be apart, to distance themselves, to accept and pretend, or to be who they were meant to be. I honestly forgot how hard it was to be a kid.

Everyday is a battle for our babies who face this cruel and wicked world….. Those choices aren’t always easy, yet each choice comes with a cost.

As I enter the walls of my school everyday, I remind myself that no child is “bad.” They’re just a combination of choices they make and don’t make. They are also a product of choices their parents and community make everyday.

I urge the youth to chose wisely, for your very choices will determine your path in life….

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