Greetings from a jumbled school district.

          So, as you might have heard (but probably didn't), Grand Haven middle schools are changing. But not in a good way, in a horrible depressing way that has everyone either A: Angry, B: Distraught, or C: Doesn't care because school is school, and it really doesn't matter to them unless someone burns it to the ground and they don't have to go anymore.
          Governor Snyder has decided that kindergardeners aren't important and he should cut their funding in half. So in a desperate stand to get their money back, the Grand Haven school board has come to the conclusion that kindergardeners need to go to school all day so they can keep their money.
           Now you may be wondering "So where are they going to put all the kindergardeners?". If you did, your smarter than I am, cause I didn't think about that at all when I heard this for the first time. I was more like "Poor kindergardeners. At least this isn't going to affect me.".

           Yeah, right.

           The kindergardeners need more room now, so they're kicking the fifth graders out of elementary school. So the fifth graders will have to go to middle school unless they are going to learn whatever you learn in fifth grade on the street. But there isn't any room for them in the middle schools.

            So the wonderfully clever school board decided to shove the fifth and sixth graders in the district into White Pines, and all the seventh and eighth graders in the district into Lakeshore. Now if you don't really consider this long, you might think "Well thats not so bad. After all, they'll be together in High School anyway, so what's the harm? "

           PLENTY OF HARM!!!!!! High School is High School. I wouldn't see most of these people in High School so It would be a lot less bothersome. But Lakeshore is so small that I would see every   single one of them. Every day. For the whole school year. Argh.

           It's not that there aren't any nice people at White Pines. There are lots of nice and awesome people at White Pines. But there are also rumors about violent fights that end up smashing trophy cases at White Pines, and while I'm guessing they aren't true, you hear a lot about how many fights there are over there. It is true that someone broke a window with their head at Lakeshore, I was there, but it was an accident. 

           And I'll the White Pines kids aren't looking forward to going to Lakeshore either. Or maybe they are, because we have huge lockers and they have these tiny things you can barely even fit a textbook in. And we have non-smashed trophy cases! My friend Ashley has wanted to come to Lakeshore for years.

              So I guess there are good things to this, like I'l be able to see my friends from Ferry again. But I will also have to deal with about 200 kids I don't know. Oh well, I'll live. 

                         With you till I try to homeschool myself,

                                                Yzzy.