What I Learned

What is the best thing you have learned this year so far and how did you learn it from advice or experience? Explain.



Deja Diggs

The best thing I learned this year so far is that in order to do better, you have to want to do better for yourself and separate yourself from people that try to bring you down. That’s what my mother would always tell me. This year, I really started to listen and think about it. I wanted to do better in certain classes. So, I started to move away from certain people.



Charles Oxley

The best thing I learned this year was planning my future. I’m going to be successful in life; this was always a concern, but I never really thought about it. I had to go to this program, and Mr. Bell said, “where are you going to be in five years from now when your friends are in college and owning business”. After that, I started thinking about what I wanted to do with my life. He shared stories with me about how his friend lost his life by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. So, I started planning out my future.



Luis Reyes

The best thing I learn this year

I can fix my problems. My family and others describe a story that gives you an idea of how you can fix your problems. Also I learned how to be yourself and not pretend to be somebody that is not you.





Malik Martin

The best thing I learned this year so far is nothing, because most of the stuff that is being taught I already know, but learning stuff in school is really not fun or interesting. It depends on what class you have and all my classes suck, but I have no choice but to learn so I can be prepared for the real world. I learned a few things, but none of them were the best. Hopefully in the 11th grade, I will be able to answer this question with something instead of saying nothing.





Shonae Lewis


 This year I’ve learned that any thing could happen at any given time. Over the past week, my cousin’s house caught on week fire and they didn’t have anything but the clothes on their back. Now, they are in a hotel and people have donated money, clothes, and shoes. Now, they have some things.

How Not To Steal Love

How Not to Steal Love

by Carlos Barnes

With love you have ups and downs
Sometimes you smile sometimes you frown
Love is a ball of trust, even though you go through muss and fuss
You shouldn’t steal someone’s love for you pleasure
Because love is a powerful measure
When you have true love, you are honest, loyal, and forgiving
kinda like the one above
Don’t love someone to make them feel good, love them for them
When you get married, it says love a person, “for rich or poor”, “for better or worse”, “in sickness and in health”
When you do this it is impossible to steal love

How Not to Steal Love

by Tieara Reddick

Love can’t be proven with poems, promises, or presents, true doesn’t have a happy ending it has no ending. Sometimes only pain and patience can prove love, love the person who deserves it, not the one who requires it, sometimes you don’t want to fall in love, but your heart doesn’t ask your permission. Don’t let anybody steal your heart. 

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Love is Blind

by Myesha Clarke

All you see in your life is pain
no love, no lie, but its blind
everytime I see you
You can’t even look in my eyes
you got four kids by this coward
don’t let him take what’s not his from your heart
Love is blind and it takes over your mind
You called me on the phone late at night telling me
How he left you in the dark with no food to feed your kids
I tell you get a job and make something out of your life
Walked out the Benz door outside and suited up
He bought you diamond rings to make you fall for him
One day you’ll realize how bad he hurt you

She Goes Back

by Amber Williams

He beats her as if she is the enemy 

But that’s what she calls love 

They fight over the kids  

But she just makes excuses 

She says she is done and leaves 

But she goes back 

She tells me not to let this happen to me 

But I learn from my mom 

She is a care giver 

But she gets no kind of love 

She cries and she drives away

But she goes back 

Their love, mixing baking soda & vinegar 

Foaming up and over

Their over whelming fights 

Overflows and leaves a mess

It affects everyone near

But she goes back 

Their Conversations turn into arguments 

But he’s left with the blame 

She insults his family 

But he can not defend them

She manipulates his soul 

But he likes it

Being a punching bag, “I wish you would boy!” 

But he does what he’s told 

She leaves him with the mess 

But all he could do is stress

She drives away worrying 

He wants her back 

Beep beep! The sound of the cars honking their horns.

As he comes to her door

Heartlessly being carried

The green light yelled at us

As the other cars rode passed

But she goes back

She could’ve should’ve would’ve, but didn’t

But he isn’t bothered

She’s chosen to birth me

But I am left with the pain

Their love is cruel kindness

But she goes back

He beats her as if she’s the enemy

But that’s what she calls love

They fight over of the kids

But she just makes excuses

She says she is done and leaves

But she goes back