So today like half the highschool at my (retarded tiny drama centered bureaucracy) school got called into the office. Some of them may have deserved it more than others but honestly - leaving campus to go eat lunch when they can legally drive and drive others? What's the big deal? We're friends, we're young adults - w'ere NOT STUPID three-year-olds with our mom's favorite pearl necklace - destined to break everything. C'mon, a little trust yah?
Some of those students that got in trouble, even asked permission beforehand from PARENTS - and STILL got in trouble! Seriously? We have minds, we don't need to be monitored for every little thing. Why can't we grow up? Stop trying to keep us in elementary school.
THEN. oh yah, THEN they have the GALL to FIRE one of the only SANE teachers I've ever had. EVERY student loves this guy - Mr. Miller. Let me just explain what kind of guy he is with this story:Once (I think it was ninth grade, the year after I had him in 8th grade) we were studying rocks in Earth Science in the lab room that he and Mrs. Logan shared. We were supposed to separate our many rocks, classifying them. It was pretty fun but I made a comment I think that they were all just a bunch of stupid rocks, who cares blah blah blah. He came up to our table and told me that I was just a rock. At first it really hurt...I was already having a bad day and the fact that he just kind of called me a stupid rock - just like all the others, hurt.
Wait for it... ;)
So there I was feeling sorry for myself and he comes around back to our table. Silently he places one of the smallest and prettiest crystallized looking rocks in front of me. His point was different now. I started to cry (if I remember correctly - I excused myself to go to the bathroom or something) Later he told me the story of Geode; how on the outside it may appear to be just another ordinary gray rock but once you break it open, inside is a myriad of beauty - hidden beauty - and that's the true value of the rock. Not the ugliness on the outside, but the beauty on the inside. He understood and was telling me that though sometimes I may feel like just a plain rock through and through - I was a geode: full of beauty inside.
Today? He told me that I was no longer a geode (and at first that made me sad) but he told me I am now a diamond, beauty had finally blossomed inside and out...he made me cry again. Haha...ugh - I'm such a cry baby, I'm getting red-eyed thinking about it - He told me how I must find a man someday who treats me like the princess I am. Thank you Mr. Miller, I'll never forget you and the story of the geodes.
What is WRONG with a school that would fire a teacher like that? Ha, or what's wrong with the school that gets mad when a boyfriend and girlfriend give each other hugs in public? And what the heck - not giving us Valentine's day (we did anyway) :P Not letting us call our "Prom" just that? (haha *snicker...nobody even calls it "Royal Ball" psh)Ugh. They're all just a bunch of stupid idiots with sawdust in their heads. I'm so ready to grow up and start my real life - away from all the drama of girls (haha...myself included - I create drama too - not gonna lie) and away from the manipulating hand of administration. I'm ready to just - grow up.
I was reading Peter Pan yesterday (didn't finish - got too bored) but it made me think about growing up again - and I don't know why Peter hated it so much. Honestly, we can still keep our childlike innocence and become mature and have it ten times better! Life could be so fulfilling if we would simply let it.
Well...C'est la vie I guess...haha and au revoir or however you spell that one :P
Kaylla
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