The Weirdos

Bullying is America's favorite sport. All you have to do is to walk to school, make fun of some kids, maybe add a dash physical violence and viola, you're a professional jerk. They these kids are treated like objects instead of living beings. Some get pushed to the point that they think dying is better than to continue life. Either on the internet or at school, almost everyone has seen or experienced bullying. I think a way 7th graders could help the world by respecting others and by standing up…

The Critical Race Theory states “people have intersecting identities.” Two of those identities are gender and race. In Marilyn Frye’s article “Oppression” she said, “the experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or occasional” (Frye). Through looking at various resources, we will discuss how the identities of race and gender have led to people living their lives under a blanket of oppression and how…

in front of him. Wondering where S/O was, since it was unlike them to miss a meal. He was eating like normal but jumped when he suddenly felt a hand on his knee. Sabo was confused at first but soon realized it was S/O under the table and not some weirdo. Swallowing nervously, he would try to keep up with his conversations…

Max was considered a dumb, lonely, low-self esteem kid, but when Freak moved down the street, Max changes how he feels about himself, Freak, and others. Max felt like a butthead, but after Freak came along he started to become more wise. Max’s first look at Freak, he thought he was a weird looking, robot kid, but when he got to know him he was very intelligent. Other than Freak, Max also had a relationship with his grandparents, Grim and Gram, at first they didn’t really care about each other…

Trackers shouldn't be in student IDs. “Privacy is not about something to hide. Privacy is about something to protect (Jim Harper)”. This explains how privacy is important, especially when there's no consent. Schools should ask for consent before putting trackers in student ID’s, it's a big invasion of privacy. Schools are making students a target for danger when putting a tracker with all their personal information on it. Schools shouldn't put trackers in their IDs because it's an invasion of…

No friends Very lonely No one likes me The household that I came from was not very good or positive. My father was not around very much, and not for work. Even though we lived with him. I had just moved to Poughkeepsie when I was 10yr old. I was in 5th grade at violet avenue elementary school. At this time, I had no friends and was not seen as an ordinary kid. People made rumors about me, not to mention that I had severe anger problems. I always kept to myself, did not really talk to anyone.…

When my friend and I walked on the street of Alabama, pedestrians who passed us muttered words such as Asian or weirdo to each other. These showed some people’s belief that they are superior to others. Racism is the idea which one race believes that it is better than the other and segregation or discrimination is presented. An example of racism is a bus only for Whites, people from other races cannot sit on the bus. Racism and discrimination between different groups of people led to shameful and…

school, we constantly judged other people and ourselves based upon “unspoken laws” and made-up stereotypes. Such as: Koreans did Key Club, Filipino boys did breakdance, taking Geometry as a freshmen meant you weren't smart, and JROTC kids were awkward weirdos who were unathletic but still needed that PE credit. Coming to the ZAMHS community for me was extremely refreshing in the lack of these type of societal norms. And thanks to that, I was able to become friends with different types of people…

Starting first grade I thought we were the top dogs because we got moved down to the bigger playground with the bigger kids. Since they knew we liked kick ball so much they built a kick ball diamond for us. There was just so much to do in the shortest amount of time. Everyday was a new day, I never did the same thing, whether it was playing on the upper part on the monkey bars seeing who could hang the longest or playing football with the guys. I can remember my first year at kickball I was…

The movie that I have chosen about contemporary American high school social life is the 1985 classic, The Breakfast Club. I chose this movie because I believe it displays an accurate representation of the sociological discussion from Milner’s article. Milner talks about how norms are important when it comes to shaping a student’s status in schools. Everyone knows the famous quote from the breakfast club “You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions.…