An Open Letter to the FCS Middle School

Editor’s Note: The following letter was written by a student of Friends’ Central Middle School who has chosen to remain anonymous. As always, please maintain respectful conversations, in person and online, in response to this piece. 

Dear FCS Middle School,

I was a new student this year. I was so excited to make new goals and new friends that would carry on throughout my life. Now when I think about how much progress I made through this year, I am really surprised. Being a middle schooler, it was hard for me in the beginning to make friends. I was basically deciding if I should be myself or someone else. I was always afraid that I was going to fail and get kicked out of the school. My parents would warn me that this school is more serious and that I need to focus on my studies. It built up stress and anxiety for me. I was suffocating in Saran wrap. Okay, maybe not literally–but it really felt like that in the beginning of the year. Then Echo Hill arrived, a field trip that saved me from suffocating. It helped me open up and I learned that all I needed to do was be myself and no one else. Actually, I shouldn’t necessarily thank Echo Hill. I should really be thanking the teachers who made this a fun experience for me and others. So, thank you, teachers, for this experience that helped me open up, make friends, and taught me to always be myself.

In some ways, I still think the school could improve. For new students or students that are already here, I think we should respect one another’s property and respect one another as people. I feel that to advance our community into a better one, we need to make it comfortable for new students and make them feel welcomed to join in our community.

Signed,

An anonymous middle schooler

 

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