Javon Witherspoon - Personal Statement

Personal statement

Going into 9th grade I was not really a good student and it affected my whole highschool life, I never really did like school in the first place because of the fact that I never really had friends and really no one to talk to since I moved to charlotte. Since elementary I really only kept to myself because saying something to the other students could result in them hurling insults at me, i guess that’s why I have developed anxiety. I grew to dislike school and then myself which made me never want to leave the house because I always thought that people outside of school would insult me and tear me down like the kids at school did, well me not going to school led me becoming a truant. People kept calling my mom telling her that I was never in school. My mom would come home angry because they would threaten her with jail time and she could never understand why I would not go to school, because I would never tell her and now that I am older I can see how that could make it seem like i was just staying home cause I was just a bad kid rather than me being bullied and it affecting my school life. Fast forward a couple of years and i’m in highschool and still missing days I had planned to drop out when i turned 18 but when i was 17 I came to garinger and the teachers really care and respect us. I found out that what happened to when I was a kid would stay there and i could not let those past occurrences could not burden me anymore. My teachers told me that since i was smart i could not let my sour thoughts about school hold me back from my potential. I think i realize my potential now from my experiences and they made me a better person now having gone through them.