Current mood:

angry

1) Post on Facebook. 2)???? 3) Get expelled.
As some of you know, my sister was enrolled in Mars Hill Academy, one of those snobbish private schools.

Recently, she posted the following on her facebook profile:

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FIRST DRAFT-Left up until the second comment from the esteemed Benjamin Liebing.

I just feel like venting.
:O

First, I'm so excited for college. I'm ready for the new challenges that I'll face. I'm ready for the change of scenery. I'm ready for focusing on strengthening skills. I'm ready to learn. I'm just ready.I know that God's will is perfect and that all things work together for good for those called according to His purposes.
"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart."

Second, I cannot even begin to describe how excited I am to be done with high school. It has been an overwhelming year. For some reason the teachers think that it's cool for school to consume their student's lives. You know what though, it's okay. You just got to prioritize, and realize that school doesn't always come first. Also, we all know that MHA has serious issues. Yeah, for the most part the teachers and administration are condascending, arrogant, judgemental, plain rude, and inconsistent in their treatment of students. But, hey, we all have our flaws.

The answer isn't to rebel, because honestly, it doesn't really help. You can't make them change. You can't make them care about how hurtful they are. You can't make them see their hypocrisy. You can't make them see how they are drowning us in homework. No, instead we have to rise about it all. To love them despite it all. Which, clearly I am not the best at..well...yeah...anyways ... working on it. Stick to your guns on the stuff that really matters. In the end does it really matter that certain students * cough* admin and teachers kids *cough* never get in trouble, and are exempt from the rules? Nah, and anyways it doesn't hurt them if youre bitter and angry.

We just gotta get done, ya know? Get through and leave


SECOND DRAFT-Left up until my two comments were posted.

First of all, I'm sorry I offended all of you. The entire point was that for all the bad things about the school, we all have bad stuff about us too. Hence, the ' But, hey, we all have our flaws. ' I didnt just throw that in there for kicks, I really meant it. I was laying out how I felt the school was behaving and then just encouraging the people I love. I'm not sure I entirely understand why all of the MHA alumni feel attacked and offended..but this is what I meant. The fact is that is the way the school is treating SOME students, clearly not you. This is the way it is. Obviously if we are still at the school we appreciate it to some degree and still believe that it has something to offer. BUT, I will not deny the fact that the majority of teachers and administrators that I have day-to-day interaction with behave in the manner described. You guys were right to call me out on generalizing. I do apologize for that.

And now I'm done. Maybe our life isn't as hard as all of yours at college, but it's not really a matter of how hard things are, more about how you deal with it. Maybe you can't see it, but we are trying to deal with our small little high school drama the best we can.

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The next day, she was called into the principal's office and told there would be an "enforced parting of ways" and she should finish the year somewhere else; this facebook post was printed out and used as the reason for this "parting of ways".

She's got a 3.2 GPA, attends school activities, and had 3 months left until graduation. She's been attending the school for 4 years.

Now, she has to attend summer school at Lakota to graduate, in August.

How are they able to get away with stuff like this?

I'm more angry than I can clearly express.