The Dangers Of Intolerance In Wilson High School

Botstein uses the Littleton shootings to bring light to how the school system works in terms of how almost biased the schools are in their treatment of students and teachers. Botstein states “The team sports of high school dominate more than student culture. A community’s loyalty to the high school system is often based on the extent to which varsity teams succeed. High school administrators and faculty members are often former coaches, and the coaches themselves are placed in a separate, untouchable category. The result is that the culture of the inside elite is not contested by the adults in the school. Individuality and dissent are discouraged. To me as someone who might be considered somewhat of a social outcast, I can definitely acknowledge that there is unquestionably always going to be some type of social biased because we are people and we just tend to do things like that. But the severity of social biased is something that we can work

When Mr. Clark originally taught at Eastside High School, the culture seemed very competitive and full of high standards. The students seemed very eager to learn and at a pretty high level for their age. Twenty years later, the culture flips dramatically. The school quickly goes from pristine to a graffiti-infested playground. The teachers are the prey and the students (mainly the ‘hoodlums’) pretty much do as they please. Education is a small goal for any of the students, and the students that do want to do well fear those “hoodlums.” Mr. Clark identifies this immediately when returning to Eastside High. During his first assembly, Mr. Clark let the entire school know that he was the HNIC. He gathered up all the trouble makers and sent them home, expelling them from school. Most were drug dealers, 5th year students, or drug abusers that were dulling the spark of the other students.

Sabrina Rubin Erdely's "School of Hate” and Chris Heath's "18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars, 2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque, and 1 Man Dead in Ohio” has the most depressing essays that shown that people are being disrespect to the innocent human beings or creatures. The society is really cruel because they didn’t accept anything that they think it is different from others. Sabrina Rubin Erdely wrote about a girl who is in seven grade named Brittany Geldert has the most unique outfit and had a deep voice that lead to outcast. The worst part is the society didn’t protect the young teenagers who is having a hard time, “She would have been shocked to know the truth behind the adults' inaction: No one would come to her aid for fear of violating the districtwide policy requiring school personnel to stay "neutral" on issues of homosexuality”, (254). Chris Heath wrote about desperate man named Terry Thompson who sent freed the animals and killed himself which it is tragic. A lot of

I agree with Botstein’s evaluations; the typical school environment is damaging generations of teenagers. His ideas show an alternative to the school program that is currently producing nothing but generations of unhappy and unmotivated children. Being motivated to take a stand on the American education system after of the outrageous shootings at Columbine High School of Littleton, Colorado in 1999, Botstein connected the causes to the effect of students who were interacting with each other in school environments. Others blame teachers' methods, and the subjects that are being taught ­­– stating that the education systems are creating simple minded children. However, no one is teaching kids the harmful effects they can have on one another. These cliques that form in schools cause the outsider, the loner, to act out in outbreaks, such as in Columbine. “Artificial Intensity,” as Botstein states it, is highly implied on teens. It pressures the students to be perfect; some put too much stress on themselves, triggering them to act on extremes.

[The students] were subjects of unspeakable hatred. White students yelled insults in the halls and during class. They beat up the black students, particularly the boys. They walked on the heels of the black until they bled. They destroyed the black student’s lockers and threw flaming paper wads at them in the bathrooms. They threw lighted sticks of dynamite at Melba Pattillo Beals, stabbed her, and sprayed acid in her eyes. The acid was so strong that had her

Transferring to a new school is a hard experience for a normal kid alone. Going to a new, all-white school as a black student in 1957 makes the experience even tougher. In the memoir Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, Melba and eight others, known as the Little Rock Nine, risk everything in order to attend their local high school, Central High. Living in Little Rock, Arkansas, these students take the courageous step to attend an all-white school in a society filled with segregationists. The Little Rock Nine battle the bullies of Central High, trying to avoid acid in their eyes to eggs in their hair. Through this rough experience, the Nine graciously receive important help from many allies. Throughout the memoir, Melba receives protection

At this school, education was not thought of as a priority, at least not academic education. Instead, students educated themselves on the hippest trends of the streets. For example, if you wanted to make it through Waters without being made fun of or “joned,” you had to wear what was socially acceptable in the black community, you had have your hair a certain way, you had to wear certain types of shoes from certain stores, and you even had to walk a certain way in order to show how much influence you had.

The role of an educator throughout an individual’s life is often downplayed. Their position as a teacher is to help students apply concepts of math, science, etc., in a classroom setting. Despite this, they are seen as pointless and temporary. However, there is an implicit role educators have when it comes to race, and the impact is enduring. Their “silence speak volumes,” and the “students are listening” (Pitts). In Jamilah Pitts’ article “Don’t Say Nothing” from the fall 2016 issue of Teaching Tolerance, she successfully uses pathos and call to action to show the negative effect an educator's silence has on students during moments of racial tension or violence.

In his book And Still We Rise, Miles Corwin wrote about how he was researching a homicide in South-Central. During the homicide a boy was shot by gangbangers. The detectives thought he was another gangbanger but they realized he wasn’t. He was a junior at high school and was in the gifted program. After the homicide, Miles Corwin decides to write this book because we wanted to write not only about gangbangers but also about other children who wanted to succeed and had to overcome obstacles in life. He wrote about the problems that occurred in inner-city high schools. He followed a group of seniors that were in a gifted program at Crenshaw high school in Los Angeles. Students who had many problems in life, who were abandoned and abused by

Racism isn’t hating someone because of their race. Prejudice is not a misconception of who a person is. Racism is being prejudiced because a person believes their race is superior; and, prejudice is a preconceived opinion not based on any prior experience. In other words, racism is when a person has a preconceived opinion about another person because they feel their race is superior. Racism and prejudice are probably two of the most talked about and controversial words 60 years ago and still today. When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and Martin L. King marched on Selma they didn’t think we would still be in such a place today; we are in a place where people are not allowed to be themselves without facing judgment. This is the same prejudice and racism members of society face in schools, by students and educators which limits their ability to progress in a world full of competition and rise above what demographics say they are destined to become. As the great Charles Albert Tindley once said, “We Shall Overcome!”

Our society has lived around giving people nicknames, labels or titles. Schools specifically can be a spot where these labels have been detrimental on a person’s view of themselves. Labeling or stigmatizing is when someone uses a label or nickname to degrade someone who is considered different. Insults and jokes can enforce these labels. People who are different can be labeled something which may make them feel more insignificant about themselves, and if these labels are repeated the person may even come to believe the label. In the case of the Saints and the Roughnecks it was the citizens who stigmatized these teenagers to the point where the kids were they were not given any other future besides the one that follow what their label was. The community believed the teenagers could not become better or worse people than what their title

There are many stages in a person’s life, people usually just try to fit in. An individual will normally look for “groups”, or people who share the same interests as themselves. In order to get them into a certain group the individual needs to feel as if they are at a safe place to just be themselves without having to be judged by another person. For example, in Prom Night in Mississippi, Morgan Freemen worked at desegregating the blacks and whites prom. He wanted to people to realize that there shouldn’t be groups that they were expected to grow up in. They should be able to be with whomever they decided to hang out with, whether it's a black person hanging out with a white person. These students in this movie experienced in-groups and out groups and they attempted to work against them.

They were stories of broken and dysfunctional homes, being kicked out of the house for being part of a gang, to being beaten up just because they were different. Reading these journals Mrs. “G” realized how similar each student’s stories were no matter the race, ethnicity or gender. Even though the students did not see eye to eye, they all had many things in common: they were all in gangs; they each had their own stories to tell; each student has dealt with the shooting of a friend, each student want to communicate to others, and each student wanted to be respected.

An occurring problem at Apollo Career Center is gang violence. Gang violence is big at Apollo Career Center because there are a whole bunch of different programs and people within their programs become close like a family so they have each other’s back if something was to happen to one person then they all would be involved. If it isn’t between programs then it is a racial kind of thing. Like people think that racism and stuff is gone but throughout the whole world it’s not. It is still an occurring problem and I don’t think it will ever die because people are too childish and in their own world to realize that people are people, humans are humans, we all bleed the same color and we all look

Intolerance in American Society Intolerance of other people's culture, religion, ethnic background and skin colour was a major issue in the 1920's America. This was, of course the era of the economic boom that helped to make America a rich and prosperous country in which to live. This economic boom made America a very attractive place to immigrate to, especially to those in countries that were not so well off. This meant immigration on a massive scale.