Going To School With A Learning Disability

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by defleppardgirl1974
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Going to school with a learning disability was very difficult for me. When I was in Elementary school in Westfield. Boys used to pick on me call me retard. I hate that word.  Boys used to use a preted invisible can of lysol & they would pretend to spray on thier desks if I had to sit at thier desks for class. The boys would say that I had Jenny Germs. They probily had more germs than me. Things got so bad that I couldn't concertrate on my homework so alot of times I couldn't do it. I got detention at least 3 times a year from the fourth grade to the sixth grade. I used to pray to God everyday that these boys  would stop picking on me. 3 years I had to deal with this. Then one day my mom told me when I was in the sixth grade that I was going to BOCES starting the next school year. I was really happy. I've been to BOCES before. I used to go the every Monday, Wednesday & Friday mornings when I was in the second & third grade. So when my mom told me I was going there full-time I was very excited. I wanted to start going rightaway. I didn't want to wait. So I started the seventh grade at BOCES. I believe it was the best thing for me. My selfesteem was much higher, nobody was calling me retard, nobody said that I had Jenny Germs. So for the first time in 3 years I was happy. Then my mom told me that I was going back to Westfield school. I was upset, I didn't want to go back. But my mom told me it would be fine. I went Wesfield in the morning & BOCES in the afternoon. I was really suprised how much Westfield school had changed. It was a big improvement than what it was the last time I went there. So the ninth & tenth grade I did this. I was even on the track team. I never won a single race but I never quit, I always finished my race. Then when I was in eleventh & twelth grades I went back to Westfield school full-time. I did voulnteer work in the calfiteria in the afternoon I liked doing that. I went 4 proms & then I graduated with my sister in 1993. She was 17 & I was 18. I'm just so glad my high school experience was much better than my elementary school experience. BOCES was the best thing that ever happened to me. When I was praying to God for the these boys to stop picking on me I didn't think it would take 3 years for my prayer to be answered. I guess God answers prayers in his own time. I know that God listens to everyone one of my prayers. Because if he didn't I may not be here right now. I'm happy now. I & love my life. I thank God for BOCES & The Recource Center.