Thursday, May 5, 2011
In My School
In my school of 4.205 students each one of those students has their own story. Not everyone was born into a wealthy family and not everyone is a part of a low income family because they choose to dress differently. After watching the video of footage from life at a school is Texas, I'm happy to say I'm not involved in a school where kids are ruthless and think higher of themselves- compared to "outsiders" of their social class. Overall, regardless of some stories people hear, everyone is fairly nice to one another regardless of ones social class. I have never walked down a hall and heard someone get defriended due to their social status in our school. I've heard people getting put down for a certain stereotype they may hold but when watching the video it upset me to see that kids refuse to be friends with people of a different status. It's not like people have a disease just because their home isn't large. When ever I've volunteered, i've become thankful for what I have but I've also learned so much from people who may be less fortunate than I. I've heard struggles that individuals have gone through just to make it to where they are today, and with us we usually just take things for granted. I know I do, as bad as it is to say teens go out and buy a $50 shirt where some people truly work hard just to put food on the table. Tammy from the video, for example, walks 10 miles every day to work at Burger King for the minimum wage that she gets paid and with that she supports her three children: one which seems embarassed and ungrateful, but it definetely makes me very thankful. It also reminds me to not judge people by how they are dressed or what they look like on the outside, because whether it's in my school or at work I can never tell what type of hardships a person may have gone through to get to where they are now.
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I like how you point out that people here will just go out and buy a $50 shirt and act like its no big deal. Yet there are people that we dont take into consideration who have to walk a total of over 20 miles each day in the hopes of mabye making half of what our shirt costs.
ReplyDeleteI agree that we see money as no big deal. Some people seem so ungrateful about what they have versus what they want. I do understand that there will always be the desire to have more, but when we start taking for granted the people we have in our lives, then we are truly letting money run our character. The saying stands "Money cannot buy you happiness" yet I hear people all the time say "It can, and it has." We seem so obsessed with materialism nowadays that we as a society feel that every has money when really not everyone does. It's sad to hear people saying they can't be friends with someone because they don't have as much money as someone else. We are not only showing materialism but just plain ignorance.
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