Schools starting back up.

Need to talk...

School starts in 14 days, and I’m already stressing. I’m switching schools (another private school) after getting kicked out of my second private school, and I have to start over—new people, new teachers, new everything. I don’t even get a second to breathe or do anything because my parents made me wake up at 5:15 for 8 weeks of my summer to go row. On top of all that, my parents are forcing me to do crew a week early before the school year with the new school. I despise crew. The sport got boring, I hate the practices, I hate the pressure, I hate pretending to care about it just so they’ll shut up and be proud of me. I literally begged them to let me quit, and it’s like they don’t hear me at all. Every time I try to talk about it with them, they say the only reason I’m going to this school is because I’m good at crew.

Oh, and I forgot to mention I still have a full book and a half to read and annotate and write essays for before school starts? Because, of course, I do. Why wouldn’t I? It’s not like I’ve been dealing with my dad just having surgery or anything. I’ve been in the hospital for the past 3 days. There’s no room for grace or breaks or reality, and even when there was, I was being woken up at 5:15 for 8 weeks and then forced to go mow people's lawns. They tell me that getting myself kicked out year after year is my fault, and I acknowledge that. I insist they stop spending twenty thousand dollars a year just for me to get average grades and not enjoy school. All I want to do now is just go smoke a fat bowl, crawl into a hole, and disappear for like… ever. I’m tired of not having the time to do anything that I truly enjoy. I don't see why the force me to do shit that I don't want to. And I know I reached out to the coach about rowing for there school and I attended all of the meetings and said I would row but I think I might not even show up for anything related to the sport. But deep down I know my parents are going to go ape shit ;(

Sorry I wrote this in a rush.

Posted Aug 7, 2025, 12:53 AM UTC

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