Tiny Town

On friday mroning I realized how much growing up in a small town has impacted my life. I want to share this in here just so that I can get it out.

Walking down the hall on friday my close friend asked me if i had seen my diploma exam marks yet, I said no are they in ?? and she informed me that they were and our home room teacher had them. After walking (ok running) back int he direction i came from I realized that I had indeed passed and was now finished with high school math a subject that has plagued me since i was in elementary. Without hesitation I ran into my high school math teachers class room interupting her class of grade 9s she ran up to me and we hugged and talked and laughed. She then put her arm around me and introduced me to her grade 9 class as a sucess story and used me to inspire them. My math teacher not only knew me by name but she also knows my favourite color and my best friends names as well as what all the students in her class did on the weekend. I had a math 30 class of 15 students and this at my school is not unusual it was in fact the largest math 30 class in a few years.

This year I will graduate and leave my tiny town of 2000 people all over right now students are anxiously awaiitng graduation and leaving high school I am awaiting leaving my town my home and my grad class a class of 28 students. 28 students who I can name off and remember.

I am constantly told how small town schools are pretty much not comparable to city schools and that a small town students education is being compromised due to low funding out of town staff members and lack of students. I have never found my education to be sacrificed by any of these things. I have had opprotunities to develop bonds with every teacher that has taught me, I have had the same opprotunity with the students I have grown up with. A smallt own school isnt a school its a family with everyone contributing and caring about everyone else. And the next time I hear someone telling my why a small town school is unimportant I would like to hera them name off every person in theire graduation class or every teacher that has taught them. I would also even like to know how many of theire classmates or teachers remember them. I know when im gone i ownt be forgotten by the people at my school not because I was spectacular but because I was not a nameless person lost in a see of nameless faces.

I dont know how much of this makes sense I just needed to share it with soemone or something you know ?

I guess im just gonna miss being a small town girl.