Hazing Part I & II
Well I found an essay that was written by one of the boys involved. I have to say I was pretty shocked that he really saw the light. (Actually my jaw dropped) Goes to show a lot of the times how we can jump to conclusions about a person.
Now don't think I am fooled by any means. He really could be a lil trouble maker, this is a college essay he was writing, and it could be just to make himself look good. Changed person per say.
But I think this time I will really believe this kid made a honest mistake, and truly did learn from this.
Since it doesn't name names and protects his Indenity I am sharing, though I might remove later as I don't want to feel I stole this. But I won't give him credit and make public my blog to teenage boys of ABC High School. LOL.
My Suspension!!
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future” (JFK). In the past I was suspended from school for five days, during spirit week of my senior year. With the caring person I am, I took this lesson and changed my life so nothing this catastrophic would ever happen again. At the least, this monstrosity of a sentence put on my perfect record, was meant to teach me a lesson and it sure did.
When I was first called down to the office, (since I never get called down), I was wondering to myself “What is this about?” When I got there, the Activities Director asked me to fill out an Incident Report and at that moment I knew exactly what was about to transpire. What happened during spirit week was meant as harmless fun, but soon turned into a life changing situation for us eight varsity cross country runners that participated. I am going to be honest, we gave wedgies to a few individual freshman, who we thought would be able to handle it and maybe even have a little fun in the process, but were we way wrong.
We were eight “straight A” students, that wanted to participate in an age-old tradition at (name removed); Spirit Week. What turned out to be one bad decision almost landed us in more trouble then we ever thought we would be in. Our principals threatened us with ten-days out of school and a disciplinary hearing, but there was “No way”, I thought, “it was only a few wedgies.” When we finally had our meeting that led to our fate, we found that we were kicked off the Cross Country team and were suspended for five days. At this point my jaw dropped, “I cant get suspended, what about National Honor Society, VIP, and even more important, college”, I thought, “What am I going to do about college?” As (name removed) was arguing heavily about his fate of Cross Country I was more worried about my future, which is more important than the past of present.
The moment I left the office, as a vacation awaited me at home, I made a pact with myself that I would never make a huge mistake like that again, seeing the long term affects of one mistake; it scared me into submission. With my suspension I had a very long time to think, thus finally, I came to the conclusion that I did regret what we did and was very remorseful. We later found out that we hurt them, which am very sorry for, seeing as we were just trying to have a little fun and not meaning to hurt anyone. My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them (Kerouac).
During the proceedings of this entire incident, I took a deep look inside myself, and found the true me. Not to say that I did not care about myself before, but now I care a whole lot more. All through school I did the bare minimum to get through school and now I have realized that I need to do my best at all times, whether it be at practice, church or in school, my best is never to good for me.
I really was impressed. Really made me think twice about my opinions I have carried around about this kid. Kudo's to him! I just really hope this is how he truly feels. It's nice to know some can really learn from their mistakes. :)
Happy Saturday to all!!
