“Behind every person lies a story”

Ritenour High School believes that for each person there is a story. That we don’t know what the other person is going through so we must not judge others. We are sharing stories of students and staff, not to be a voyeur into others pain, but to show that we all deserve some compassion.

Junior Isabella Slunaker

“So, middle school was rough. I was the quiet one, I kept to myself all the time, I really didn’t know anyone because they all went to Hoech and I went to Ritenour Middle. So, when I first walked into Ritenour Middle I met one girl in particular who wasn’t my best friend. I didn’t expect that I’d be best friends with her and that she would be like a mother to me.

She watched me through everything, she was my mother when my mother was at work and wasn’t able to talk to me about stuff. I talked to her, and she was sometimes the other half of my brain. I went through my struggles, she walked through hers, and we walked through them together.

I helped her through her darkness and when we hit high school, when my darkness hit, she helped me through my darkness and my breakups, and my relationships that I thought would be perfect.

Through everything she’s just been there no matter what. She may judge me at times and call me out, but that’s because I need to be called out and I need the judgement so I can change myself for the better. It’s a story of great friendship.“