From the time we enter school on that first day of kindergarten, we are taught that our job is to do well in school, to make the most of our intellectual talents, to contribute to the world and to maximize our potential. Along with most of my friends, I live in a secure and blessed world where college is not a maybe, but a must. I live in a district that has a 98.8 percent graduation rate, compared to the national average of 82 percent. I live in a district that has 4o elementary schools, 16 middle schools, and a whopping 9 high schools, with many more on the way.

I am one of 52,000 students in FISD, something that I am exceedingly thankful for. As I go off to college, I have slowly began to realize just how lucky I was to have grown up in a district that emphasized my education as much as it did. I was offered every AP class under the sun, given the tools I needed to do well in college, and had the opportunity to experience extracurriculars in a way that I know many students in the country and the world don’t get to experience.

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