I Would Like To Protest In Schools

Protests can happen anywhere at any time. They can happen as a group or an individual may protest. Not everybody says what's on their mind and what the would like to protest. One instance is myself. I wish I would've protested about how much attention sports get and that having good grades and taking harder classes get almost no attention. The schools talk about how much they want good grades and would like to see us succeeded in classes, but they rarely say anything about grades and classes. They only seem to praise and hype sports like football. I think about things at night in bed, I don't care about sports, and I know nobody will listen to me. First, when I have nothing to do I end up always sitting in my bed. I either listen …show more content…
Mrs. Sanders says she wants students to succeed, but all I hear on the announcements is about sports. Her coming into classrooms checking on teachers doesn't do anything and making the teachers write down the goals of the lesson is useless. I know myself doesn't look at that nor do I care about it because it isn't beneficial at all. I could really care less about how sports teams are doing. In the text Smith says, “ It don't mean a bloody thing to me, only to him, and it means as much to him as it would mean to me if I picked up the racing paper and put my bet on a hoss I didn't know, had never seen, and didn't care a sod if I ever did see” ( page 1208) Smith doesn't care about running or winning, but the governor does. I relate to this because so many people care so much about sports. I do not care about them at all. I'd rather have a better education because nearly none of the people doing sports will make a career out of it. Thy district has no problem spending money on sports equipment and other things related to it, but won't send teachers to be more educated for AP classes. Mr. Apgar wants to teach AP art, but the school doesn't want to spend money to send him back to learn the