Don't Play Around by Tre'mon Daniel

When I made it to high school, I thought that I could just stroll through and just sit back and relax in class. The years that I’ve been here I really thought about my classes and the credits that I needed to graduate. Then I thought about what college I wanted to go and who would expect me.

The things that I remember about my freshman year are that I didn’t get any credits. When I started my second year as a freshman, I got three out of eight credits. Then I thought to my self, that that was pretty good for me. But it wasn’t good enough for my mother. Then when came back around for my third year, I was still a freshman. So through the year I was having parent conferences. Then at the end of my third year I had gotten seven out of eight credits.

The experience that I had throughout my years here, I have learned that if you don’t do your work and pay attention in school you won’t graduate school on time. From that experience I have stayed on task and started to pay attention in all of my classes. Also I have stopped playing around in my classes.

So for you rising 9th graders, if you want to get out of high school and get a good job don’t play around in your classes. Don’t do what I did in my school years. For some advice, do all of your work and study hard in your classes and stay in school.