I thought this year would be exciting. My dad kept on telling me it would be a new start so I was willing to give Elsinore another school year. Everyone either says sophomore year is super easy or super hard. I knew that new staff was coming so I was wondering how it would be, but man is the new change absolutely awful for the students. Not only is the staff and the new rules annoying, but seriously what is with the red lines? First of all, we are almost adults why did you have to enforce a dress code now? I understand not being able to wear extremely bad clothes, but excuse me I’m not allowed to even wear a tube top now? It seems that the only people getting mad about the dress code are the teachers, but you are an adult why are you commenting on a student? Get it together, the dress code is absolutely stupid! You are packing people into one area with 100 weather, don’t people understand that that’s going to cause more fights then how it was last year? At least last year there were spots to go to, especially with the heat you were allowed to go in hallways, but now it feels as if we are forced to be in the open as if we were cattle.

With that out of the way, let’s go into how sophomore year sucks besides the new rules. Honestly every single class is a struggle, and I feel like the teachers are extremely rude and so are the students. Last year was a big change for me, it changed me as a person for the better and yet I can’t go to school now without crying. I don’t like that my spots are taken away from me, as someone who always has medical problems the heat will literally ruin me! Yet it seems that the school just cares more about making it like a prison. Good for the staff for finally changing the school, but as an incoming 10th grader which is supposed to be a easy year, I have had nothing but struggles. I haven’t even hit my “sophomore slump” yet and I already feel as if this is the worst school and school year ever. I want to give it a try, but with the way things are it seems that next year will be just like this year. I’m passing all my classes and I have a wonderful boyfriend and family who is keeping me strong. But it sucks going to school when the literal office security follows you into the bathroom because they think you look untrustworthy. I just want to get school over with and get a job and car, I don’t know when my sophomore slump will come maybe it already has but this school just sucks and makes me absolutely not want to go!