I grew up in extreme poverty, and the town I grew up in was, and is today, “majority minority”, meaning that the school I went to had very few white students. Some of these white students lived in the one “nice neighborhood” in town and they all stuck together as well as pretty much occupied all the “prestige positions” in the school except in sportsball, of course, though they were represented there as well. The rest of us poor white kids had to group up just because there wasn’t any other group for us. On the one hand it was pretty cool because it was an automatic friend group but on the other hand it was pretty shitty because pretty much anyone in that group was absolutely hopeless. Out of the guys I knew, the only ones not dead or in prison are myself and my little brother, and I haven’t heard from my brother in years.
Anyway, because the school was “majority minority”, the office staff were all POC. From the principal on down to the secretary. My assistant principal, we’ll call him Mr A., puts the lie to the claim that “black people cant be racist” because he LOVED fucking with our little group of poor white trash. He never fucked with the rich whites, because their parents were on the School Board, were big in the Sports Booster groups, worked in management at the one big business in town, or whatever. He kissed their asses, but he made a point of fucking with our little group every chance he got and letting us know exactly why and there really wasn’t anything I or anyone else could do about it.
One day one of my friends came up to me and said that Mr A had told him that the School District was opening a “new school” and that anyone in our group who wanted to could transfer over to it and graduate early so they wouldn’t have to go to school anymore. More than one of my friends fell for it, talked their parents into it or just forged the paperwork. The school was a disciplinary alternative school the District had just opened up. Of course, they all dropped out within days of attending that school.
That decimated our little group, not many of us left, and resulted in me being the de facto “leader” because I was one of the older guys in the group and was big enough to be able to fight and win when it came down to it. I remember sitting on the floor in the Commons one day with a few of my friends when Mr. A walked up and started laughing at me, telling me how he knew it must be really lonely for me now that all my friends had left school and that I should just drop out and join them since I was old enough to do so. I didn’t know what to say to him so I said nothing but it was really fucked up.
So my brother was a year below me in school, and was kinda undiagnosed on the spectrum. Really awkward and gullible. I tried to look after him but I’d left home the year before and was couchsurfing at friends houses so I didn’t get to see him too much except at school since my parents kept a tight leash on him lest he leave home like I did. Anyway, some guys I knew talked him into participating in a “prank” which was really just them jumping some guy that had fucked one of their girlfriends and one of the guys had a knife. Zero Tolerance, all of them got expelled. My mom went by my work and berated me for it being my fault because the other guys involved were older kids who I knew and basically told me I was disowned because I had gotten my brother kicked out of school. Later on, I heard that she’d tried to get him back in after a semester off but Mr A. held firm and said that the only way he was attending school in the District again was the Alternative School and everyone knew my little brother wouldn’t make it in there. My mom begged Mr A, but no dice.
So one day, a few weeks after all of this, Mr A. walks up to me sitting in the Commons again. This time I really am feeling lonely, because there really isn’t anyone from my group left but me, plus my mom had been guilting me every chance she got about how it was my fault my brother got kicked out and how they couldn’t get my brother into the local church school because they didn’t have the money for it and he’d get his ass kicked at Alternative School and whatnot. Anyway, Mr. A. walks up to me and tells me that he’s tired of my mom calling him crying and that he’s ready to let my brother come back to school after his suspension is up. One condition, I have to drop out. He let me know I was old enough to do so legally, and he said it would be as easy as putting my books on his desk and walking out the front door. He said all I had to do was put my books on his desk and walk out and not only would he let my brother back in after his suspension but he’d let my brother go to Summer School to make up the semester he’d lost so he could graduate on time. All I had to was drop out, so I did.
It took a while for me to figure out that it was all a bluff. The School District couldn’t force my brother into the Alternative School after only one incident and couldn’t deny him an education either. Even the Summer School thing was bullshit because anyone would have gotten that if they’d missed a semester. So Mr. A. faked me out, and got me to drop out, so he won.
I went to the local Jr College and got my GED, then got a job as a contractor at the big industry in town. Worked there for a couple years until I heard on the news that the Military had lowered recruiting standards and were now taking dropouts with GEDs so I enlisted. Within those 2 years my brother shaped up, did the Summer School thing, came back that next school year all caught up, graduated on-time, and after a year at the Jr College got accepted to the big State Univeristy and moved there. He ended up graduating from there and getting a job in Big Tech.
After I’d enlisted, but before I’d shipped out, I was in a grocery store and ran into Mr. A. Although he worked in our town he didn’t live there so running into him was quite the coincidence. Anyway, I’d been dreaming of running into him and beating the everloving shit out of him and I could have done it too. He was fat and slow and I had a foot of height and plenty of reach on him. It would have been so easy. The thing is that he had his daughter with him. I walked up on him and he acted all scared, his daughter started freaking out and I felt bad for her having to watch her Dad get beat down in the produce section plus I knew going to jail for assault would screw up my enlistment so I let him slide. I will say that although I didn’t beat his ass it did feel very satisfying watching him cower in fear when I walked up on him though I felt bad for his daughter. I have NO idea how he could have possibly explained that whole thing to her, who I was, why, whatnot.
So that’s the story of my high school career. Most of the guys I knew died, a couple in drunk driving accidents, most due to overdose. The rest ended up in prison for dope or stealing. My brother ended up getting that job in Tech, getting married to the first girl that let him touch her, having a kid with her, then getting left by her for some butch lesbian she met at a strip club. He went full-retard MGTOW after that and disowned everyone in the family including me and no one has heard from him in years.
As far as me, I did a few years in the Service, got out, got married, had a couple kids, with a lot of bullshit inbetween those events. Mr. A. stayed with the School District, I’d hear about him occasionally, though I never ran into him again. When my oldest kid came of school age I was worried about sending him to school because last I’d heard Mr A was a District bigwig but found out he’d retired the year before so all good there. Then when my kid wanted to go out for sports I worried a little bit because I knew he was a volunteer on those leagues but found out he died of COVID so all good there. The End.