Class*

Ask yourselves this when you reach to shut of your night light tonight, what class are you a part of?  And I’m not talking about the race class, if your white or black, pink with polka dots or green with yellow stripes.  I’m talking about the class such as middle class, lower class or high class.  Now look at your parents, your family, your area and the classes you were taught in.  Are you shunted into these classes because of your class?  Were you raised on a farm, and when entering high school shunted into classes that dealt mainly with high machinery and low level thinking classes?  How about if you come from an affluent family, you have the smarts, the clothes and the attitude that you rule the school, do the teachers pay more attention and give you the better grades?  Ah now you see it.  You were born middle class, you’re going to stay in middle class, don’t think of trying to get out of it.  You’re parents were born there, your grandparents lived there and the rest of your family will always stay there.  Or will they?  Do you want to live in a world where every person’s fate is decided on a description or a label?  Oh she has blue hair; she’s to be ignored because she is too weird.  That person’s clothes are too baggy, she must be pregnant.  He has a really high voice, he must be gay.  He dyed his hair black and let it grow out; he must be an Emo kid.  Really society?  Is this really how you want to raise your kids, to give labels to everyone that they meet?  Look within the schools there are label there too.  There are the kids who aren’t going to make it because the teachers don’t believe in them.  These kids are shunted into the lowest classes and disregarded.  Why bother teaching them?  They get all the answers wrong anyways.  They’ll have a job when they get out of here.  Here give them a grade that’s just good enough so they don’t have to stay back.  Really?  C’mon you have to do better than that.  What if you payed attention to Cooper and he ended up becoming a brain surgeon?  What if you listened to Ashley’s silent plea for help and helped her become a lawyer?  What if?  There shouldn’t be labeling in schools, all should receive the same education and the same amount of respect from teachers, administration and the other students.  Okay sure give all the kids the same uniform, now you can’t tell who can’t afford the uniform and who can.  Great, there’s one problem solved.  Now what about the students who need school supplies?  Great, we have those donated.  What about the students who don’t want to speak in class?  Great, they can be placed up front.  What is the hidden message here?  We’re telling the kids that do not have these offers in place that they’re not important enough; they shouldn’t receive a decent education because they are going right back where they started and working on the farm like the rest of their family.  Or they’ll become mechanics, or pumping gas, in the sewer plants or working the factories for the rest of their lives.  Is this what we want to teach them?  Survival of the fittest shouldn’t apply to a human, that is an animal reaction that should be put into the submissive section of our brains.  Don’t be ignorant, look at what we are teaching unconsciously.  Let’s make a change, next time we try to label someone, turn around and compliment them for their creativity, originality and attitude.  If we all did this, we all could change the world.