Okay here's the story::
Last week, I was suspended for something that I say in my strong opinion, was EXTREMELY STUPID!
Benito :: middle school .. it's the name of the school.. I'm 14 in 8th grade so it's my last year in jr high =P
In my school, we usually have 1st period and then homeroom or as they call it down here in the south of the US, T.A. (wtf does that mean @_@). I'm from New Jersey, US and I know for a fact that the laws are entirely different from down here in Florida and the situation would've been handled much more differently than it was down here.
We went to Homeroom first instead of first period because we had to write this practice essay called the practice MOCK.
It was an essay that was going to our English teachers to see what we need to do better in, as of writing, and what we
we could fix and improve (same thing right)? Okay anways. So the prompt was this:
"At the end of the morning announcements the principle, Mr. Smith, ends the announcements with the school's
motto "Benito pride is hard to hide!". Explain what makes you proud to be a Benito student. Now write what
makes you proud of our school!"
My school is extremely wack! I mean because it's really strict over such petty things and you get in trouble for the simplest and most ridiculous of things. Besides, since it's the south, there's alot of racism down here. I HATE my school to the max. It's against my philosiphy to lie about something that I absolutley do not believe in. From what I remember I was told to always tell the truth no matter. So to make a long story short, I wrote a lot of stuff in the most professional, most formal way and basically in mature professional terms using educated phrases and high leveled vocabulary, I basically said it sucked. For instance I said that the school is covered in filth and it's dirty, which technically IS true. I also remember writing that the staff and the principle have no common sense because they complain how they have to watch us after a lunch period's lunch is over. That basically means, since I'm in lunch C (3rd lunch period), the lunch lines are so dam-n long that we have to stay late just to eat our food. Well it's not our fault because they make us wait until we get to the very front to the cash register to order our food and waiting for the people to search and find it, then paying! It takes about a minute or 2 depending on how long the line is. Okay well that's just one situation but yeah. That describes how they don't have common sense. (Okay sorry if I explained too much about that one situation but it was needed for you to understand my point). T_T Okay another issue; they let the white kids (I'm saying white because it's truth!) get away with a lot of stuff. If black people, Hispanics--such as myself---or Asians, Indians or any other race not related to White/Caucasian, they get in 10x worse trouble for little petty things because the non-white kids are known to be "ghetto" and "living in the hood" which to the ignorrant people ==>troublemakers. It sucks.
So yeah and I also said that the principle and staff needs to take a look into reality and realize that the school isn't all jolly and happy like they expect it to be and that not everyone likes the school and that most of the people writing this essay are just lieing because they don't want to fail/get into trouble. So to them, I was "extremely disrespectful" and "insulted the principle, staff and the whole entire school". I DONT CARE! It's not my fault that they can't face the truth! Even though they didn't ask for my opinion, I refused to lie and gave it to them anyway.
Later on in 5th period I get called down to the office and my friend Tony is there. He told me what was going on and that he's getting suspended because of the essay and that they called me down to the office for the same reason. I was like "O.O! OH MY GOD! ARE U SERIOUS?!" He's like "yeah! I'm getting 10 days because I wrote about the food in the school" I was like "o_0 wtf?" So yeah 5 minutes later, the lady who suspended me---which may I say is a new lady who's been working at my school for less than 2 weeks and acting like she knows me---calls me into her office and she's explaining what I did wrong and I told her "Okay I was strong on my opinion I'm not ashamed to say it" and she gives me this look like "You're not ashamed?! You SHOULD be!" <--that kina look. She's over here reading the highlighted parts of my essay to me that were "obscene". She's over here telling me that what I wrote was not only rude and disrespectful but also that it was a moral threat to the name of Benito and that I insulted the principle and staff. She's over here wasting her breath trying make me change my mind so I can feel guilty but I showed her no fear and I told her that I agreed with everything I wrote and that I was not afraid to write it and I told her it's true about how the staff and princple, especially the principle, thinks that everything is going great! He sits there putting on a stupid smile, trying to get everyone to love each other like brother and sister when he should realize that it's the complete opposite! I told her that it's even worse with that coyote (that's the dog of the school, AKA Ms. Shultz, the diciplinary officer who basically does nothing but yell and punish everyone) running around yelling at everyone and suspending everything for petty ridiculous reasons. I told her "Might I also add that the students that are not White/Caucasian tend to get in less trouble than those not of that decent." She got quiet... so she calls in the coyote and she's like yelling at the top of her lungs telling us how we didn't even pass our writing exams at all 3 years---6th, 7th and now 8th (which I did because I got a 6 on all my FCAT Writes exams)--- and she's only been here since the middle of last year. She's yelling at us saying that we shame our family which got me so pissed off! How dare she stand there and tell me I shame my family when I know I don't! Anyways after that dumb coyote was done yelling, the lady who suspended me couldn't find anything else to say because she knew she had nothing else to back her up from my reasons so she uses the lamest excuse "Well you were supposed to write posotive things about the school and you didn't stick to the topic! So you're getting 10 days" I'm like "10 days?! That's denying my freedom of speech which I can legally sue you for as for the whole school!" and she's like "Too late you got 10 days"
So I'm sitting in her office listening to her complain how she's suspended so many kids from the same situation and I'm like "Hey lady! You're not the only one stressed here! You try running a web design/digital arts/layout site and get about almost 20 requests a day from people all over the world! I bet you don't even know how to use photoshop!" She looks at me like o_0 ooookaaay! lol!
Okay point is, don't you agree that what I got suspended for was totally absurd and the school denied my freedom of speech which is the 1st ammendment in the United States constitution? I got my 2 weeks (10 days) reduced to 5 days because my mom had to go into the school and cuss the lady out so she could give me at least 5. My dad wanted to slap the hoe and my mom wanted to frickin kill her because of something so stupid! My dad was all like "You know what, next time don't say anything.. because if you dont say anything, and you get in trouble for that, THEN imma do something about it" So yeah I had to go to this place called ATOSS which is bascially alternate school u go to during ur suspension period... I just came back to school this passing thursday so everything was back to normal except the staff wasn't glad that I came back. They acted like they hated me coming back.
That's the story (sorry if sounded boring :sweat:)
