Bullying in Public School Have you ever been to a Public School? I have and it wasn’t a good experience for me. First of all people are very quick to criticize the students, parents, and teachers. Secondly the government education system is a failure, but not because of them. Thirdly bullying affects everyone both physically and emotionally.
They thought that my being tired as a sign that I was using drugs, doing illegal activities and hanging out with the wrong kids at school. When I was truly tired from running and biking long distances. The miscommunication resulted in my parents no longer trusting me. My native culture had also played a part in the difficulties I had experienced. I think part of the difficulty was that my culture is a collectivist culture.
I have been incredibly bored by school since day one. We use to read aloud as a class in elementary school and I would get bored and annoyed at the verbal stumbling of my class mates and would read ahead silently. Inevitably, I would get in trouble for not paying attention when it came my time to read. Well of course I wasn't paying attention! I didn't like to listen to these mouth breathers shout at me on the playground and I sure as hell didn't want to hear them struggle over two syllable words in class.
Students were required to take a twenty mile bus ride down to this school. Also, Howard High School was located in a beat down part of Wilmington that many parents disapproved of. The parents also didn’t like the inconvenience of vo tech options, and the teacher success rate. When the children were denied the right to Claymont High, 8 brave parents decided it was time to sue. Another case, known as the Bolling v. Sharpe case, was also combined when taken to Supreme Court.
Thousands of children go to school every day filled with fear and trepidation; other feign illness to avoid being taunted or attacked on the way to school or in the school yard, hallways, and bathrooms; still others manage to make themselves sick at school so as to avoid harassment in the locker room. Children who are bullied spend a lot of time thinking up ways to avoid the trauma and have little energy left for learning. It is not only the bullied child who suffers the consequences of bullying. Many children who bully continue these learned behaviors into adulthood and are at increased risk of bullying their own children, failing at interpersonal relationships, losing jobs, and ending up in jail. Bystanders are also affected by bullying.
They also had to use the back door when shopping. Schools were segregated and Jefferson always thought that the black school was not equal in conditions of quality. Jefferson was twelve years old during Bloody Sunday and she and her older sister marched in it. She remembers the troopers using high pressure fire hoses, police dogs, and tear gas on the protesters.They were chased and beat with clubs. Jefferson was shocked and terrified the entire time.
Indeed, there was a major delinquency problem at my high school. Too many kids would smoke in the bathrooms, making it incredibly hard to use them. We also had some dumb people destroy a computer lab and the library, therefore making us undergo the “no fly” rule, which meant we had to have an adult escort anywhere we went. The idiocy of a few teens caused trouble the entire school. I mean, would you enjoy for a teacher to walk you to the bathroom and wait while you pee?
So, You Think Your Life Sucks? “My life sucks!” A certain student in our English class (he sits right behind me) cries after he realizes I achieved a higher grade on a paper than he did. This student, he who shall not be named, was extremely upset about this rather unfortunate incident and he truly believed his life was terrible due to this one instance. Now, we all know that he has no chance of rising up to my level of awesomeness and that is nothing of which to be ashamed. However, this particular student still felt that his life was horrible because of this.
Salinger shows how Holden’s childhood have shaped his attitude towards others. Through Holden’s characteristics, actions and comments Salinger shows that events in our life can affect the adults we become. Holden tends to be a pessimist teenager that always sees the bad in people, especially in adults. He has the habit to use the word “phony” to describe people, and it seems like he has difficulties having a good social life, but he doesn’t really like to be alone. He has been kicked out of school several times; it seems like he does not care about it; however, he has a decent grade in English class.
At first I did not know what to expect of her, and chose to listen to what she told me to do. I sat down and we chatted for a while and then began to play some games, which were to test my memorization, analytical thinking, and comprehension skills to verify that I did in fact have a learning disability. In the past, I was ashamed of being called a "special student", because it made me feel like an outcast in the school. I barely had any friends and