Last Day of School

Before seventh grade I was often a little sad at the end of the school year, not because I didn’t look forward to summer vacation, but because I genuinely loved school and felt good about myself in the classroom setting. Then I was moved up a grade, from sixth to seventh, and everything changed. School became a place that felt unsafe in so many ways, so there was enormous relief at the end of theschool year, if only because I could escape some of my tormenters and my unaccustomed experi...