Resolved Question: My parents are forcing me to go to school in a NY ghetto?

4 January 2012, 3:55 pm

My name is Anthony and I live in New Canaan, CT I have good friends here and I want to go to high school with them but my parents said my attitude is horrible and that I act like a snob and that is not the child they want so my mom enroled me in a school in Yonkers (I know Westchester is nice in parts but Yonkers is ghetto)! Yonkers, do you know what place borders Yonkers? THE BRONX! She wants me to see that there are nice people in all classes and races and I am sure there are but still I dont want to go to school with them, I will get bullied we will have nothing in common. I know I sound snobby but I am snobby but that is my parents fault they brought me up here and now they want to take it all away. Why live in a nice place and send your child to an inner city ghetto school, its not fair its cruelty. Please help me :( I don't hate poor people, not at all I just don't want to become a statistic its basic survival, they wont like me.... Read More »