>>212483932
In grade 8, I didn't do homework and I had a bit of an attitude. My teacher was determined to place me in the lowest stream in high school, and my parents didn't understand this at the time because they didn't have the same system when they went to school.
In spite of doing non-academic English, math, social studies & science, I was still able to do university-level Spanish in high school. In grade 12, I was invited to Awards Night, and they awarded me on stage in front of everyone with a scholarship to study Spanish in university, as I was the top Spanish student in my grade. Those grade 11 and 12 university-level Spanish courses were no joke.
Later I was notified that my scholarship was rescinded. The reason? I didn't complete sufficient ELA, SS, science or math courses, because I was in 30-3, so I wouldn't be eligible to study at a university. They gave my Spanish scholarship to the second best student. This had never happened before, so they made that mistake for the first and last time with me. I was never given any sort of compensation for this. Just an apology printed on a sheet of paper.
no one advocated for me
no one cared
my parents didn't know
I didn't have the heart to tell them
I'm the single ONLY person this happened to
