My heart was pounding on the car ride home, I knew that I did poorly this school year and neither of my parents were going to tolerate my grades. “You’ve disappointed me this school year, son. You’ve had all school year do get your grades up and you didn’t. We had this same talk last semester and now we’re having it again. You need to try harder in school because I want you to do better than me when I was your age, I don’t want you falling down the same path that I did. There’s a saying that people say that goes “A closed mouth doesn’t get fed.” If you don’t ask for help and try to do everything on your own then you’ll never make it in life, everyone needs a little help.” This is what my father told me on the last day of school freshmen year….
Not trying in any of my classes in high school was way different than not trying in junior high because they still baby you and will make sure that you get your work turned in, and call your parents if you’re not on track. High school will do some of that, but not nearly as much. After months of falling asleep and goofing off in class, first semester was over. All of my classes were passed with grades that my parents wouldn’t tolerate. My father gave me a father-son pep talk, the ones that every teen hates and doesn’t want to listen to, but I had to sit there and listen because I had it coming. My year was terrible, I knew how bad I did but I didn’t do anything to fix it. . “You’ve disappointed me this school year, son.” My father said. The words that almost no kid wants to hear come out of their parent’s mouth. It hurt me when he said that, not that he intended it to, but it’s terrible to have parent’s that hold high expectations for you, just for you to let them…