I had a good math teacher who thought I had real talent in the subject. She also got my parents off my back about my school problems, when she told them how biased towards certain students they were, while guys like me who aren't from the right families(aka ministers' kids, principal's kids, wealthy people of the school's religion) were pretty much only there to pay tuition. She also got these kids who had been picking on me for 2+ years to leave me alone, when the principal either couldn't or wouldn't.
I wish I could have gone to more than one high school, staying in the same place for 4 years was foreign to me, since between grades 1-8, I'd been to 6 different schools, with the longest I'd stayed in one being a little over 2 years. Change isn't easy, but at least if I had changed high schools, I'd have gotten away from my tormentors when they really started getting to me, and may have had a shot at something better.
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PrisonerSix
"I am not a number, I am a free man!"