Gender Inequality In School

The school bell rung to end the day. While I walked down the long and crowded hallway a Caucasian female was beside me with her friends. They started to quietly talk and then suddenly she pulled the fire alarm. A teacher walked out of class and she came over to me. She took me to the office and blamed me for pulling the fire alarm in a non-emergency reason. I aggressively argued with the teacher and the VP that I did not do it, but the teacher explained that she saw me do it. As a result of the fire alarmed being pulled, the police and firefighters came to the school. While I waited in the office, the firemen and the police officer approached me. I was young and scared, too nervous to talk. They first began to question me and wonder why I pulled …show more content…
In fact, the teacher also showed the institutional form of racism. First of all, the teacher was also Caucasian. In a case like this, it seems as if she was conscious of the girl being closer at the time it was pulled, however the teacher pointed me out of the group. This is probably due to my race since I was different from the group compared to everyone else. Moreover, inequality due to gender can be considered. For instance, both the teacher and the girls were female. Being a male, the teacher must have thought of me as the victim of this illegal act instead of the female students. This probably due to the fact that, boys tend to have a higher juvenile delinquency girls. Finally, another concept that can be seen is power. I was at an unfair advantage due to my age and status in society. My encounter with the teacher and authority is also an example of power. Being only a student, the teacher and authorities held a higher status. In this case, my status disallowed me to be in a position to prove that I am right. What I said did not matter to them and hence, I was held responsible for an act I did not …show more content…
However, this was not the case due to the fact, that the community I grew up in created a poor social influence. My urban background states that I should argue until I am proved innocent in a situation that was not my fault.The fact that I aggressively argued back and made the teacher feel as if I had threatened her power shows that the society I lived in influenced me to achieve this. In the society I live in today, I am more calm, and in most cases do not mind being blamed for something I did not do, depending on the severity of the situation. In the end, the influence of my secondary groups led me to act the way I did in the situation with the fire