Havermale: Havermale turns out as good choice

The event that has changed my life would be coming to Havermale High School. When I was in elementary and junior high, I was teased and picked on to the point that I snapped and told the kid, “You’re the reason why kids like me bring guns to school and blow your head off.”

The reason I told him that is because he was making rude comments about my family and how poor we were back then. I was suspended from school until I was able to get a psychiatric evaluation, and when I went, they said that I was the sanest person they had ever seen.

When I was 14 and heading to high school and my dad asked me, “Why don’t you go to Havermale? I went there and graduated.”

I was supposed to go to Lewis and Clark, and I told my dad that I wanted to try Havermale to see if I liked it. I must have, because I’m a senior here at Havermale and I’m graduating on time and on track.

I know I couldn’t make it at any other high school. I feel like an adult and not a kid here, and I feel happy. They have helped me out so much that I never want to leave. The staff here is more like my friends than my teachers.