Things the Students Say..

At every job there are going to be interesting comments made. You may get lucky and have lots of intelligent comments being muttered about, but I was one of the unlucky ones this week. Truthfully, by working in a high school classroom I am always one of the unlucky ones. I hear hundreds of unintelligent comments every week whether they are whispered in the classroom or yelled through the hallway. You may not know this, but there really is one thing worse than the typical grumblings of high school students. That would be the uneducated comments.

I’m just going to come right out and tell you what the student said (and repeated more than once) to the classroom with straight conviction. “You all white people made a big mistake by releasing us black people from slavery because all we done was brought you gangs, and drugs, and-“ That was all he said before I stopped him. It was heartbreaking to see that he had no understanding of the statement that he just made. He’s one of those students that really is just so determined to be the biggest drug-dealer in the neighborhood, that he thinks he does not need an education of any sorts. It’s sad, and unfortunately I’m not so sure that he is the least educated student in the building.