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Once I got to jr. high it became even harder for me to be in school. I knew my parents would make me drop out of school. Once this happened then I would have no other choice then to work and give up hope of a better tomorrow. I was just fifteen years old when I dropped out of school. I was expected to work all day. This made me feel like a complete failure. Yet my parents saw me like a hero. My family and friends and neighbors saw me as great person. They never bothered to ask what I wanted. Education was seen as a waste of time. It seemed I had already accomplished my goal in life. Even my teachers seemed not to care they never bothered to ask me why I missed so much school. When I dropped out not one single teacher seemed to have noticed my absence. .
The rest of my teens I spent working hard. I started to feel this was going to be my life from now on. I started to motivate my younger sister to stay in school. I would do her chores and work in order for to be able to study. I felt if only one of us could stay in school then maybe we would all benefit greatly. Then came the day I got married. It is not a surprise I married so young. Yet it felt well being able to have the liberty of going back to school to earn my G.E.D. With this paper I was then able to change my life in slowly but surely way. .
In most families my story is much too familiar. Many students feel the burden of having to help their families with the bills and help take care of their siblings. This same story seemed to have happened to almost all of my friends from school. Some parents even think that school is a place where their children socialize and have fun. They fail to see that this is the place where their children can succeed and have a chance at a better future. Stereotypes are first placed at home, which almost makes it even harder for most students to consider the option of going to college. .
Many students who do make it to college see that it gets harder to stay in college.