Describe your outstanding achievement in detail and provide the specific planning, training, goals, and steps taken to make the accomplishment successful. Include details about your role and highlight leadership you provided. If applicable, describe how your achievement provided knowledge and education related to a specific health, safety, environmental or financial risk.
My name is Kimberly Aspedon and I was suppose to graduate June 2013. My biggest achievement would be not giving up and continuing. I was homeschooled the first semester of ninth grade. My mother got a job in Tampa, Florida and moved down to Florida. We rented out our two story house and my father, brother, sister and I moved in with my grandparents. Who had a two bed-room one bath house. Three teenagers and three adults in this small house and we only saw my mother once maybe twice a month when she came up to South Carolina. All my credits from homeschooling was taken from me when I was put in to public school because of the type scheduling the school was on. I was told I was going to graduate one/two years late when I first started attending there. Nine weeks in to the second semester; on April 1st, 2010, we moved to Lakeland, Florida. Where I was put into another school. The guidance and administration put me in to all PE classes. I had to retake all my classes online through Florida Virtual School. I retook all the credits that was taken from me and passed them again and finally got the credit on my transcript. About a year later, on April 1st, 2011, we moved for the fourth time to Land O'Lakes, Florida where I attend Sunlake High School. I have been there for a little over two years now. I have had complications with all my credits being lost again, but after a lot of hard searching we found all of my credits and I was back on track. Through all of this I never heard of AP classes or Dual Enrollment class. Now I am a senior in high school; graduating June 1, 2013, and I am a full time dual enrollment student. Along with begin a full time dual enrollment student I work two jobs and attend high school. Instead of graduating with only twenty-four credits, like most people, I will be graduating with over thirty credits and have one whole year of college out of the way as well. It has been very rough and there were times I wanted to give up and just drop out of school. There were nights and there are still nights I cry and feel like giving up because I do not think I am doing good enough. My parents, administration, teachers, and professors all tell me I am doing a fantastic job. With me being head-strong, it is hard to believe them. However while writing this I realized, “yes I am not valedictorian or salutatorian but through everything I went through, I did marvelous things!” You may be reading this and thinking this is about academics but in reality it is much bigger then that. It is about a fourteen/fifteen year old girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders having the choice to either: A) give up and drop out, B) graduate late, or C) persevere and prove everyone wrong. I overcame all the challenges the different school systems throw at me and I proved to not only myself but everyone else I am good enough and I will achieve all things. There is one thing though, I could not have overcome all of these hardships with out the help of my family, boyfriend, teachers and administration but most importantly I could not have done this without the strength the Lord Jesus Christ gave me.
What challenges or obstacles did you face? How did you meet those challenges?
I had all of my credits taken from me and was told I was going to graduate a year or two late. However I learned of this website where I could take the classes and still get all my credits back. I took all of my classes again and regained my credits. I even took more then I had to and got ahead. Living in a camper is also a challenge because there is no room to spread all your books and study like you should be able to. It can be very stressful at times because with such small living quarters it is easy to get distracted from your studies. However I mange to make do, put my head phones and listen to my music while I study the best I can. Also working two jobs while going to school presents a challenge because it can become difficult to keep up with your grades and homework. However I do have a job where if we are not busy we can work on school and that is how I can accomplish that challenge. I overcame diversity and overcame the negative thoughts that were first placed in my head.
What impact did your achievement have on you personally? What impact, if any, did your achievement have on your family? Your school? Your community? If applicable, describe how your achievement changed the behavior of its beneficiaries, specific to reducing health, safety, environmental or financial risk.
This achievement impacted me in more ways then one but the biggest impact it had on me was that I overcame all the negative thoughts thrown my way. I was able to live in small confinements and still succeed and be able to gain every credit back and gain more then what I am suppose to have. But I think that the greatest achievement out of all of this is that my two siblings can see that no matter what life might throw at them later that any and everything is possible if they set their minds to it and work hard. Hard work, determination, faith and prayer can help a blind man see. Out of all things I think the impact it has on the younger ones around me is more important than anything. Trying is the most important thing in life if you do not try then you will never know what you could have achieved. I believe through everything I showed that and I can tell that to everyone, younger and older.
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