When I graduated from high school, I waited a few years before I went to a community college. When I went, I had to take a test so the teachers could find out where I needed to be. I took a very easy test on stories like “The Tortoise and the Hare”, and there was Algebra and English on the test. While I was taking the test, the lady that was in charge of the class looked at me very strange. I knew she had something on her mind. I had confidence that I had passed the test, but I had a feeling that she was going to say I didn't and that's what she did. The lady that graded the test tried to say that I didn't pass the reading comprehension on the story like “The Tortoise and the Hare”. I grew up reading that story and comprehended it all of my life. I knew that I had passed that part of the test.
Soon I was in an English class with a very smart teacher. I had learned more in English at the college than I did in high school. The teachers taught differently. I was an A and B student because I never stopped reading and writing after high school. I made good grades in my computer class. So if I failed the reading and comprehension part of the test, why was I making good grades in an English and computer class? I don't remember if I was told that I passed the Algebra and the English part of the test. But I feel that they just wanted to put me where they were going to put me no matter what.
When it was time to sign up for other classes, they gave me the run around. I was told to sign up for a particular class. Then I was told that I should have taken another class before I took the one I was told to sign up for. Yet, I was almost through with the class and making wonderful grades. So what was the problem? To make a long story short, there was all sorts of things going on that did not make sense. I never graduated at the community college, but something good came out of it all. I learned a lot from all of my teachers, although some of them did not want to be fair.
