I know that I keep going on about my life in school. It is just that some of my strongest are from school days. Like the day this one big boy at school pulled a knife on me and threatened to cut my throat. Then there was the time in my first year of school that this high school student ripped my shirt off my back. There are many stories like this and mostly because the teachers let it happen. I had my second grade teacher tell my mom that she would stop me from crying when I got my feelings hurt. I have always had a hard time not crying during emotional times. I guess this and the fact that when I was in school I was a wimp. I see now that there is nothing wrong with being a wimp. It should be respected because some of the smartest people have been wimps at one time or another. I guess the one instance that I have never forgotten or forgiven our school system for. It is not being able to graduate. It was not that I was not smart enough. It all was due to the fact I did not want to hurt someone else even to defend myself. It hurt me more inside when I hurt someone else's feelings it hurt me more than him or her. Due to my many problems with fellow students I was afraid to even go into the gym. This was where I always became a punching bag for some big bully. But the one thing I can not forget is the day that the coach at the Laurens High School looked me straight in the eye and said he wished I were older so he could beat me to a pulp. I went to the office and called my mom to come and get me. I can not remember what I told her to get her to the school. I am not even sure to this day that I told her about this. I did tell her that I would not go back to school. She had said then that I would have to get my education somehow. She says now that I did live up to my promise of that day. It just makes me so mad when I here about the problems we have in the schools. They need to take these kinds of people and put them in a special school early on. At that school the supervision should be really strict. This would let people like me get a decent education. The school system just suspends them and puts them into the streets to become criminals. It just makes me so mad every time I think of that day. This was not a student but someone trusted with our children's education.