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Middle School Experience Essay

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Who would’ve thought that out of all the times life could possibly make you question your morals and beliefs, that one of those times it would be your own teacher being the one making you question them? Throughout my entire middle school experience, my music teacher, Mr. McKinney, and I never really had any issues or problems with each other, up until my last year at UNO in the eighth grade. It was then that I realised that it isn’t always necessary to abide to authority, in fact it is sometimes essential to question it in order to know what’s right. During my eighth grade year at UNO, I didn’t exactly get along with a couple of my teachers, Mr. McKinney being one of them. He had a rule that no one could leave to use the bathroom during …show more content…

That day Mr. Shannon had taken a day off and the substitute hadn’t let me get up to use that bathroom for the entirety of the class after asking multiple times to go. I understood why the substitute wouldn’t let me leave. It was because my oh-so-mature classmates were asking to leave nonstop since the moment we entered the class, so I recognized why the substitute wouldn’t want to let me leave so I decided to wait until music class to ask to use the bathroom and hope that Mr. McKinney would understand and make an exception in view f me not being one of the students who leaves by asking to “use the …show more content…

McKinney if I could use the bathroom after explaining the situation to him. He didn’t oblige. Throughout the course of the class, I continued to ask and he maintained his stance on denying me the “privilege” of using the bathroom. Around the fourth time I asked, a couple of my classmates and friends of mine encourages the option of walking out of the class. I was never one to go against a teacher’s, or anyone with a higher authority, decision, but I had been needing to use the bathroom for about four hours by then. That was when something my mother sometimes tells me came to mind, she says, “Most of the time, you need to question authority instead of always tolerating it.” So for the last time, I asked him if he would let me leave, and he one again said no. I then told him that if he wouldn't let me leave, I was going to walk out, and he said, “No you won’t”. To which I responded, “If you say so.” Just after that, Mr. McKinney announced that we would be changing seats that day. So as soon as he pointed to my new seat and said my name, I put down my books and belongings by me new desk and began to walk towards the door to leave. Just before I was out of earshot, I heard Mr. McKinney call out after me and say, “If you leave this class, you get a detention.” By then I was already almost halfway to the

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