Reply #38: We moved from Upstate NY to Jacksonville Fla before seventh [View All]

[Tsiyu]

In New York, my middle school had a planetarium and tennis courts; in Jax, they were forced to start bussing for integration, so I began attending a school way across town that was rundown and old and I thought I'd been sent to hell.

Turns out, I made some real, true friends in that old school, but my parents freaked when a psycho busdriver held our bus hostage one afternoon so she sent me to live with my aunt where I would attend a huge new "Whitey" public school. Where I was promptly treated like shit because I didn't have cool, overpriced clothes.

I was so miserable, I smarted off one too many times to my mom, so she pulled me back out of Whitey school and I, relieved, was bussed across town again. The next few years I went to a closer Junior High and my worst problem was one History teacher who needed serious therapy.

My experience wasn't too bad in the scheme of things.