Disciplinary Action/Sonia

Sonia Gurrera-Fuentes is not quite like the normal kids. She knows she is a very good girl because she never tells a lie. Her parents only speak Spanish. Her parents and older siblings have hidden the fact that her parents are not legal citizens or that citizenship is even a concept. This is because they know that she can't help herself when it comes to telling people the truth.

She is fairly awkward when it comes to talking to people, and her classmates have labled her a tattle tale. This has kept her from earning many friends at school. She has a hard time with physical activity. She tends to trip over her own feet when she tries to run or be otherwise physically active. Her brain simply cannot process things quickly enough. This also applies to her school work. She often winds up day-dreaming in class, and it is extremely difficult for her to stay on task. However, she does like to read. When she reads, there is nobody rushing her. She can learn at her own pace when she simply reads a text-book, and she often learns the information better that way than others learn from listening to the teacher.

Fortunately, a lot of the teachers she has had seem to understand she has a hard time with her school work. She did not complete her work in kindergarten, but she was not really aware there was any problem or that the teachers were thinking of holding her back from the first grade until she was tested by a lady who asked her some questions and played some games with her. She kept seeing this nice lady a lot, and all her elementary school teachers at her old school used to tell her it was Ok for her to read and also for her to take her time to do her assignments.

When she moved to her new school, her first teacher, Miss Curtis who said it was important to remember her first name was Elizabeth, and that the other three Miss Curtis' were her sisters (even though she didn't know who the other three were.) She was the same as the other teachers she had before. She was very nice.

All of her teachers have been really nice. When she went to the sixth grade, she thought the old man who was their teacher this time seemed nice as well. He told her that she had a nice body and would grow up to be just as delicious as her sister, whatever that meant. He seemed to be a little angry about her sister Gemma, but her parents and older sisters were angry about Gemma too because she wasn't going to school anymore. She remembered Gemma saying something about one of the teachers being a creep and a rapist pedophile, but she didn't understand what any of that meant. All the teachers she knew were nice. This teacher looked at her in a strange way sometimes, and it made her feel a little bit afraid for some reason, but she was sure it was not anything bad.

Sonia does not like going outside for recess. She would much rather be reading books than running around on the playground. She has started doing homework for an older kid who is nice to her. He is in highschool classes though, so that means he doesn't have recess. It might be fun if he was out there, he's really nice and helps her in PE. She never told him that she was doing his homework, but she's pretty sure he likes her for it. He was always complaining about how hard it is, but it seemed pretty easy to her since she was always reading her older sisters' text books. All she really had to do was say back the same stuff that she had read about the year before.

When it DOES come time for recess.

• She usually winds up sitting alone with nothing to do
• She likes to bring a book outside with her
• She likes to stay in the classroom and read Request --MrPib (talk) 20:18, 30 January 2020 (CET)
• She likes to stay in the classroom so she can do the older boy's homework