I am from Washington, D.C. I went to a new school, Paul Public Charter School, for the seventh grade. Paul P.C.S. was a pretty good school and I didn’t know anybody there but the students were very friendly. Cesar Chavez is not that different from Paul P.C.S, where I came for eighth grade. At both schools, you have to wear certain clothes or you’ll get in trouble.  The difference between Chavez and Paul Public Charter School was that they had a lot of new rules that I had to get adjusted to. If you didn’t obey the rules, you would have to go to in school suspension. I used to always go to in-school suspension. The similarities are that I still needed to keep my grades up and get my education.

              All the Paul rules affected me because one day I just got sick of going to in school suspension so I just obeyed all the rules and stop going to ISS. They also had this rule that if you don’t do your homework two times then they would have to go to homework detention for five days. If you miss detention for 3 days you get suspended for 5 days. Homework detention lasted until 3:30-4:30pm. People have places to go and be home at certain times so a lot of times I didn’t go and I would get in trouble. Going to Paul I felt kind of happy because I liked the school—mostly for the after school activities. But going to Cesar Chavez, I was mad because I didn’t like the fact that we couldn’t wear jewelry. But then I got used to it and now I’m not mad about going to the school. In the end, I wish I would’ve went here in the seventh grade instead of going to Paul P.C.S.

          The most difficult experience I faced was while I was in Paul P.C.S. was that the rules were so hard for me to handle and I couldn’t get used to it. I had to wear what they wanted me to wear because at my old elementary school they didn’t really care what we wear as long as we got our education. If I didn’t wear exactly what they wanted me to wear, you got sent to ISS and you had to sit in a room all quiet doing work you don’t understand. If you don’t finish all the work, then you are back in there the next day. So I got sick of it and got my stuff together and obeyed the rules and stopped getting in trouble. And that’s an experience when I had to go to a new environment.