We Are Not Created Equal In Every Way Analysis

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A Critique of “We Are Not Created Equal in Every Way” by Joan Ryan Being 24 years of age I have had my fair share of rejection. It doesn’t feel good but it’s a part of life. Rejection doesn’t seem fair, but most of the time it is justifiable. You can be rejected on personal and professional levels, and all that rejection is, is not meeting the requirements the person or establishment has set. Just like in the article “We Are Not Created Equal in Every Way” by Joan Ryan the eight year old daughter was not admitted to the school the mother believed she had a right to be in. The daughter simply didn’t meet the requirements; the San Francisco Ballet School said she had the wrong “body type” (31). “We Are Not Created Equal in Every Way” by Joan Ryan is a piece published in the San Francisco Chronicle, in which an eight year old girl named Fredrika who was not admitted to a prestigious ballet school. Fredriks’s mother Krissy decides to sue because she believes the school has discriminated against her daughter’s body type. Ryan gets to argue two valid points; she argues that schools have the right to set standards the students must meet to gain admission. And that Parents sometimes push their children into a lifestyle they are not ready for. However, Ryan’s main focus is on whether or not the tactics parents use to make their children top notch entertainers is fair.…show more content…
Ryan uses valid points and examples to fully back everything she says. Focusing on how parents can sometimes lose sight of their own child welfare is a great reminder to us for what’s really important. Ryan, you and I can all have our own opinions on how a parent should manage their child but there is little we can really do to change what is happening. Society has accepted these types of schools and programs for school aged children to attend. So until there are some laws set, nothing can really be

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