01 May 2011, 2:51 pm
AllieKat wrote:
On the day, we picked up our books after the 30 day display period, the "popular girls" pretended they wanted to "read my book" so I naively gave it to them, thinking that they finally saw how smart I was and were going to stop teasing me. Once they got it in their hands, they actually shredded the pages of my book into tiny pieces and flushed it down the toilet. I had used a typewriter to type the book (this was in 1988 and a year before our family got our first computer) so I didn't have a saved file of all my hard work. I only had a couple of "rough drafts" on binder paper to remind me of all the hard work I put into this project. 
When I had a meltdown at school after this happened, I was the one who got into trouble for having a "tantrum" in middle school while the popular girls got off scot-free.
When I had a meltdown at school after this happened, I was the one who got into trouble for having a "tantrum" in middle school while the popular girls got off scot-free.
I suspect the little ******* were jealous.
I won various creative writing prizes - and managed to keep copies of those works, or the ones I didn't toss out later when I grew embarrassed as I learned to write better, but I was working on a novel in junior high, and that got snatched from me and flushed. They didn't even ask for it, just grabbed it.
I didn't even bother complaining to the office. I knew how that would turn out... The popular kids always get away with being monsters. That's how the system works.
The superintendent in the school system where Phoebe Prince killed herself - he was a teacher at my high school. The really sad part about that? At the time, I didn't think he was a bad guy - but before I had any idea who he was, I read the quotes coming from his office and said they reminded me of the garbage my school's administration used to spout. I guess he learned how to fit into the system really well from them.
01 May 2011, 11:58 pm
