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- Story Listed as: True Life For Teens
- Theme: Drama / Human Interest
- Subject: Recreation / Sports / Travel
- Published: 01/14/2016
Why my Senior Year is Ruined
Born 1998, F, from Warwick, Rhode Island, United StatesWhy my Senior Year is Ruined
Don’t tell me that I will miss high school. I do not like change. I like going to the same restaurants, playing sports with the same group of girls every year, hanging out with people whom I know and no one whom I do not know. I like doing the same routine and doing things a certain way. I like being in charge so things are done correctly. When my schedule gets messed up and something I normally do gets taken away, I turn into a different person, but my latest experience has definitely changed myself, my friends, and my family forever.
I love soccer and it’s my life. My entire life is scheduled around playing soccer. I wake up thinking about soccer and fall asleep thinking about soccer. A lot of people don’t understand how important soccer is to me. I am nothing without it. I don’t know who I am if I am not out on the field doing what I am passionate about. There is not a day that goes by that I do not play, until recently when my life stopped and nothing that I said could change anything.
I made a poor choice during the summer of 2015. My friend and I decided it would be funny to send out a picture to the soccer team. That picture went against the Code of Conduct that the soccer players sign every year before the season starts. Of course it was a joke and the picture we sent out after said that it was indeed a joke, but the picture was still against the rules. I understood why I was in trouble. I knew what I did was foolish and I was ready for some punishment. What I was not ready for was being suspended from the team for 45 days, plus going to a counselor. If I didn’t go to the counselor, the punishment would be 90 days and that would be the end of the season.
I was devastated. I was in complete and utter shock when I heard this news. I didn’t understand why this was happening to my best friend and me. I always thought that the soccer team was a part of my family, but I was so wrong.
So, I decided to make the most of the situation in front of me and so did my friend. My parents and my friends parents were fighting to get this suspension lifted because they believed that we didn’t deserve it.
My dad ended up writing a 5 page letter to the principals boss and also sent it to the two coaches and the principals. What it said was that I have been bullied since my freshman year. I have been bullied by specific people which he named. I was stalked by someone on a weekend and they called the school on that Monday to see if I could get kicked off the team for what they said I was doing. There was no video and the principals knew that, but since there was a complaint, I had to sit out for the last two games which were not played anyway due to the fact we did not make playoffs. Then my dad went on to say that I was accused of bullying someone year after year and kept getting pulled into the principal's office for it. Even though I was not the one bullying and I was being bullied, I kept quiet because I felt like I could still be friends with this person.
I think of myself as a good person and I always look for the good in everyone. While being bullied, I always tried to convince myself it was not happening and I still wanted to be friends with these people.
My senior year is completely ruined for me. Coming to school always made me really happy. I got to see my friends and play soccer everyday after school. Just wearing the soccer uniform made me feel good about myself. Now that I can’t play, I have no joy at school.
Instead of the suspension from soccer, the coach decided that I should just be kicked off the team. I had a lot of hope to get back on the team and when I heard this I couldn’t even breathe. I’ve never been so let down and disappointed in my entire life.
Almost all of the girls on the soccer team are still nice to me and there are a few that I still hang out with. Walking through the halls on a game day kills me everytime. The girls are wearing their uniforms and I’m not. Many teachers that I have had over the years won’t even say hi to me nor even look at me. I feel so isolated and ridiculed for something so idiotic. Most of what happened was made to make me look like such an awful person, but I’m really not. The worst feeling of all is knowing that many people look at me differently and they all have the wrong idea about me.
What gets me the most is wondering why my own teammates would want me to get kicked off the team in the first place? I mean it was only a few girls, but I always thought that they liked me or at least appreciated the way I played soccer. I was a starter on varsity and I had the most important position.
Going through my senior year will not be what I expected and it will be much harder than I have ever imagined. The ones who wanted to see me fail have won and there is nothing I can do to change that. They have taken away the one thing that means the most to me.
My family is very upset by all of this and they see that I have changed from this experience. My close friends hate that this happened to me, but they don’t know what they can do to fix it. The answer really is nothing because the only way for me to be happy is if this never happened in the first place. So, don’t tell me I will miss high school.
Why my Senior Year is Ruined(Tara Medeiros)
Why my Senior Year is Ruined
Don’t tell me that I will miss high school. I do not like change. I like going to the same restaurants, playing sports with the same group of girls every year, hanging out with people whom I know and no one whom I do not know. I like doing the same routine and doing things a certain way. I like being in charge so things are done correctly. When my schedule gets messed up and something I normally do gets taken away, I turn into a different person, but my latest experience has definitely changed myself, my friends, and my family forever.
I love soccer and it’s my life. My entire life is scheduled around playing soccer. I wake up thinking about soccer and fall asleep thinking about soccer. A lot of people don’t understand how important soccer is to me. I am nothing without it. I don’t know who I am if I am not out on the field doing what I am passionate about. There is not a day that goes by that I do not play, until recently when my life stopped and nothing that I said could change anything.
I made a poor choice during the summer of 2015. My friend and I decided it would be funny to send out a picture to the soccer team. That picture went against the Code of Conduct that the soccer players sign every year before the season starts. Of course it was a joke and the picture we sent out after said that it was indeed a joke, but the picture was still against the rules. I understood why I was in trouble. I knew what I did was foolish and I was ready for some punishment. What I was not ready for was being suspended from the team for 45 days, plus going to a counselor. If I didn’t go to the counselor, the punishment would be 90 days and that would be the end of the season.
I was devastated. I was in complete and utter shock when I heard this news. I didn’t understand why this was happening to my best friend and me. I always thought that the soccer team was a part of my family, but I was so wrong.
So, I decided to make the most of the situation in front of me and so did my friend. My parents and my friends parents were fighting to get this suspension lifted because they believed that we didn’t deserve it.
My dad ended up writing a 5 page letter to the principals boss and also sent it to the two coaches and the principals. What it said was that I have been bullied since my freshman year. I have been bullied by specific people which he named. I was stalked by someone on a weekend and they called the school on that Monday to see if I could get kicked off the team for what they said I was doing. There was no video and the principals knew that, but since there was a complaint, I had to sit out for the last two games which were not played anyway due to the fact we did not make playoffs. Then my dad went on to say that I was accused of bullying someone year after year and kept getting pulled into the principal's office for it. Even though I was not the one bullying and I was being bullied, I kept quiet because I felt like I could still be friends with this person.
I think of myself as a good person and I always look for the good in everyone. While being bullied, I always tried to convince myself it was not happening and I still wanted to be friends with these people.
My senior year is completely ruined for me. Coming to school always made me really happy. I got to see my friends and play soccer everyday after school. Just wearing the soccer uniform made me feel good about myself. Now that I can’t play, I have no joy at school.
Instead of the suspension from soccer, the coach decided that I should just be kicked off the team. I had a lot of hope to get back on the team and when I heard this I couldn’t even breathe. I’ve never been so let down and disappointed in my entire life.
Almost all of the girls on the soccer team are still nice to me and there are a few that I still hang out with. Walking through the halls on a game day kills me everytime. The girls are wearing their uniforms and I’m not. Many teachers that I have had over the years won’t even say hi to me nor even look at me. I feel so isolated and ridiculed for something so idiotic. Most of what happened was made to make me look like such an awful person, but I’m really not. The worst feeling of all is knowing that many people look at me differently and they all have the wrong idea about me.
What gets me the most is wondering why my own teammates would want me to get kicked off the team in the first place? I mean it was only a few girls, but I always thought that they liked me or at least appreciated the way I played soccer. I was a starter on varsity and I had the most important position.
Going through my senior year will not be what I expected and it will be much harder than I have ever imagined. The ones who wanted to see me fail have won and there is nothing I can do to change that. They have taken away the one thing that means the most to me.
My family is very upset by all of this and they see that I have changed from this experience. My close friends hate that this happened to me, but they don’t know what they can do to fix it. The answer really is nothing because the only way for me to be happy is if this never happened in the first place. So, don’t tell me I will miss high school.
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