In the middle of the third grade, my grandparents ran out of money to continue sending me to private school–not to mention the trouble with the sixth grade teacher. This was my very first time on a schoolbus. My first time around kids I hadn’t grown up with. My first time seeing so many kids (my private school maybe had… Read more →
When I was a little girl, I was taken in by my grandparents. It wasn’t that my biological parents didn’t necessarily want me, but they didn’t have the resources to raise a child. They were on a lot of drugs, they weren’t ready for parenthood. So, yeah… I was a drug baby. And I was adopted. Because of this, the… Read more →
When I was a teenager things were hard. Life was hard. In general, we were facing social issues in our schools, such as the beginnings of programs such as ‘no child left behind’ and schools with extremely little in the way of funding. Gay rights were just starting to become an issue. Our country was in the middle of… Read more →