School never felt difficult for me, whether it was solving equations or memorizing dates in history. Going wasn’t a choir or something that felt like a waste of time, but instead was a place for socializing and slightly challenge myself academically. My older siblings, Sara and Grant, excelled in school, which made me feel as though I had to live up to the standards they set. In my parents eyes they were amazing and I drove myself to be as much like them as I could. My sister would read college level books to my brother and me when she was only 10, while Grant and I, though quite capable of reading, found it frustrating and boring. We focused our attention on exciting subjects and things we had to know and not that we wanted to know. Science, Math, History, Foreign Language, and Music were effortlessly simple for me. There was just one subject, that no matter how much practiced, never felt comfortable for me. It did not help that the middle school and high school did not push reading on the students. Reading and writing were the center of most of my difficulties growing up and it has changed how I interpret the language I speak and write. The struggles…show more content… Tutoring just worsened my feelings towards reading and writing because being forced to do something took the love out of it. I slowly began to catch up to my fellow classmates because of the tutoring, except the moment I began my middle school career I quit going to tutoring. I excelled in all other subjects, which led my mother on to believe there was no need for a tutor in the future. After elementary school I quit giving effort toward reading and writing because of my reading ability I was able to have from tutoring. Through middle school I did not grow as a reader or writer and only used my natural ability instead of working on strategies and methods of writing, which I found later in high school I would only
