How is everyone else doing today?
Me? I am grand. I keep getting told "no" today. "No" I can't get on welfare. "No" we can't give you funding to go back to school. "No" we actually can't give you the phone plan that we said we would.
So, I am here to talk about schooling.
A little bit of background information about my schooling history. I was a very good student for a number of years, I did my work. Then I got into middle school and high school and I didn't study or do my homework but I still made good marks. (Could have been better) but I got by. The last few years of high school things got bad and I dropped out a couple of times. I was having family and personal problems and I couldn't deal with school as well. I got pregnant and was very sick then lost the baby. I was completely wrecked. All this happening while trying to go to school, trying to deal with depression. SO I dropped out. 1 credit to go. I tried going back the next year but I wasn't made to be in the system anymore.
And that leads us to today.
My name is Kimberly Pozzolo. I am 19 years old. I can not go back to high school. I can not be a "mature student" because I am not 21. I can not receive funding to go back to school because I don't have my grade 12. I can not get my grade 12 because I can not go back to high school and in New Brunswick, there are no other programs. I want to do correspondence to get my upgrading and grade 12(Which cost 130.00$ each and I have to do 6) so I can do Wildlife conservation and eventually veterinary. But, how am I suppose to get into a school without any pre reqs? How am I suppose to get those pre reqs? I can't.
The system currently is flawed. I feel as though I am being punished for making a little mistake and not finishing school.
The best part! Even if I did get my grade 12..That one credit.. The post secondary place won't give me funding anyway for school. Just won't do that. How am I suppose to pay $800-$900 on correspondence when I can't pay my rent? Which leads me to welfare..My husband makes $428.00 a pay check. He gets paid every 2 weeks. Our rent is $650. Our power bill is $120. We weren't eligible for welfare because he didn't make less than $380. We can't buy food. let alone pay the rest of the bills we have.
I feel stupid for not staying in school, I feel like my future is ruined because there is no help for me. I am stuck looking for work that everyone is looking to get employed at. What am I suppose to do?
I wish I was the only one that this was happening to. But it isn't. Isn't the system suppose to help us? Isn't the system there to protect us? As a human being we have the right to an education and the right to basic human needs. Right at this point I am not getting my education because the system says they won't help me, and I am pretty much not getting my basic human needs. I have limited food because I don't have a job and my husband works 4 hours. Some things are out of my control and there is nothing that we as individuals or couples can do about it.
So that is my rant for today..Thanks for reading.
Kimberly.
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