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Ryan Hath

4 years ago

This school ruined my life. During my freshman yea...

This school ruined my life. During my freshman year I was encouraged by my English teacher to submit my writing to a contest, I did so and also sent the same work to her to ask for anything I could do better. At this time I really loved the school, it was strict but I was doing the best I ever had in class, and was enjoying school despite the 40min and three buses it took me to get there. My teacher was aware of my writing style, it leans towards Edgar Allan Poe and Grimm's Fairy-tails. I was woken up at midnight by four police officers, put in hand cuffs and taken to a hospital for a psych hold. The teacher that encouraged my writing told the school that I was a danger to the students, and staff. I was put into a psyche-facility to evaluate my mental state. I left with nothing more than a diagnosis for Dysgraphia. Since I was mentally stable the school had no grounds for expulsion. I then found out that during their "Morning Meetings" where the whole high school is in attendance painted me as dangerous and unpredictable. None of the friends I had made would respond to my texts, save one that told me the things the school had said about me to the student body then never talked to me again. As I was still enrolled in the school and they couldn't expel me they informed me that I wasn't welcome by the student body and couldn't return for my own safety. I was forced to move schools as they simply wouldn't allow me access to the school. I won the national writing competition I entered. I haven't been able to write anything since, my grades dropped at my next school, and I eventually just dropped out.

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