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Dear Editor: I couldn't agree more with the unknown former Creighton school student in Tuesday's paper (December 9). I, as a resident of Creighton, should have a say in this too as it affects my younger brother and sisters. Since the start of kindergarten through to Grade 9, I have gone to Creighton Community School and went through nothing but pure hell. No one can say they know what it is like to go to school everyday and constantly be tortured, there isn't one second in that school where I felt I belonged. Out of one year of school the average student probably attends somewhere around 200-250 days a year. Well, since kindergarten to Grade 9 that would be 10 years which is 2,000 days of my life that I don't like to reflect on. Out of those 2,000 days of going to school and being tortured, no one was ever there to help me. NO ONE! Teachers never made an effort to help me out in any way. For the most part anyway. Sure there have been maybe two or three times where the teacher actually tried to help me. But it was still no good. See 'My' P.# Con't from P.# There are times when I have got called down really loud in the hall, one time a kid was beating me up on a school trip and a teacher just sat there watching, they didn't say one word! How is that supposed to make me feel better? Teachers would hear or see me getting pick on but do nothing. I believe that if I hadn't found the two friends I did in Grade 9 from Hapnot while I was going to Creighton School I wouldn't be here today. I probably would have done something that I now would regret. If I wouldn't have had to worry about getting beat up everyday then I would have been able to focus more on my courses rather than my physically and emotionally abusive environment. Creighton School does not know how to deal with kids that get picked on. I had no help. I had nothing! N-O-T-H-I-N-G. If Creighton School couldn't manage to help me when I was younger, how will they be able to help my sibling who goes through a similar situation if they do build this high school. I have told my sibling just to hang in there and wait until Hapnot because it changes for the better. Well, what if you take this away from him? When my sibling gets to Grade 9 and up, he/she will most definitely get picked on still. Because he/she is going to school with the same kids since kindergarten, these kids have been judging him since he was five years old. Why would they just all of a sudden stop, the fact that I learned myself is that they never do. If they can't control younger children, how are they going to control older educated children who think more opinionated and are more judgmental. That horrible time in my life has definitely done a lot of damage to me, and I feel that I was one of the worst cases of being a so called "loser" in that whole school in history. It sickens me to think others would have to go through what I did. I have got spit on, beat up, called down, when I woke up every morning I was scared to go to school, and going to school for most of the day. That's being scared of not only school but life. I feel that building the high school is a good idea in some ways, but not good enough. If anyone ever has to go through what I went through, they have my sympathy. I don't know how I got through it. Once I started going to Hapnot things changed, did they ever. And it was all for the better. When I went there no one knew me, no one judged me because they did not know me, and I had a fresh start. Sure I might not be popular, but it doesn't bother me anymore because I have friends, and I have fun, most of all I know I have a life, that I actually like living. You are taking this right away from the kids who have to deal with the same thing I did. If your kid doesn't get picked on, what if he or she did? Would you want this to continue for an additional three more years? Especially on top of all the other stressors teenagers have. I think that Creighton students should continue to go to Hapnot. There are many good things that could come out of building the high school in Creighton but clearly the negative points outweigh the positive ones. Thank you for taking the time to understand my point of view. Ð Also a former Creighton School student. Currently in Hapnot Collegiate.
