{"id":12,"date":"2003-11-01T00:08:16","date_gmt":"2003-11-01T08:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/g.hayfordoleary.com\/cvm\/2005\/11\/nevergiveup\/"},"modified":"2006-02-20T17:10:44","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T01:10:44","slug":"nevergiveup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/archive\/12\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Give up — Even if Others Give up on You"},"content":{"rendered":"

At this very moment, I feel very frustrated. There is a fly buzzing around my face, my head is pulsing with pain, and I have a lot to do in very little time. If this was last year, I would have given up by now; my car would be running and I would have raced out of the icy Bemidji High School parking lot. But, as we all know, it is 2003 and I am actually in school, though a different one. And I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t given up.<\/p>\n

The problem I had with my former school was the fact that it gave up on me. This wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t due to my failure to produce the grades needed to give the school a good name. In fact, I got straight A’s since the day I entered kindergarten. Their failure was due to my medical problems. Okay, I realize that pseudo-seizures are “weird.” Trust me, it’s strange enough to have them, not to mention having to explain to the district school district nurse that<\/p>\n

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  1. no, I do not have epilepsy, and<\/li>\n
  2. yes, I still have seizures.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I was told that I was “disturbing” the other students. I was told that I “should consider alternative forms of education.” I was told that I should leave. So I did.
    \nBecause the school never gave me any answers as to where I should go, I decided to simply go home. I went home every day and worked on math or Spanish or sleeping skills. This seems like a student’s dream, but it’s not. It’s lonely and depressing. Hey made me feel that I had no purpose in the educational community.<\/p>\n

    After working this way for a couple of months, I found out that a charter school was opening. I figured that anything would be better than feeling like I was worthless, so I decided to attend. As soon as I started school, I knew it would be different this year. The teachers all wanted to teach, the hierarchy of administration was nonexistent, and the first time I had a seizure, no one told me I was disturbing them. Finally I have been accepted for what I am, what I am capable of, and what I cannot help. To put it simply, I haven’t given up at TrekNorth because no one who works here has given up on me. There is no need to hide and no need to be afraid that I might be a liability. In fact, the only reason I wrote this is because Dan McKeon thought enough of me to ask me to do it, to even guilt me into it. It’s nice to know that I am useful. That has never happened before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    At this very moment, I feel very frustrated. There is a fly buzzing around my face, my head is pulsing with pain, and I have a lot to do in very little time. If this was last year, I would have given up by now; my car would be running and I would have raced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiences","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}