Still, to this day, one of the best compliments I've ever gotten was from the lunch lady at Washington. I'd say 3 days out of the week, I get a brownie and chocolate milk, and have cordial conversation with the lunch ladies. Finally one day, one of them stopped me before I left to sit down. She told me that I had the "sweetest little disposition she'd ever seen, and she hopes I never lose it." It made my day. It made my week. There is a possibility that it even made my month.
I guess I just always thought; or at least hoped, that kids would respect people, and be nice when given the opportunity. Maybe I just take for granted that I believe respect is such a big deal. It hasn't come from religion, it hasn't come from my parents, it just came from my common sense. At Cispus, we had to take a survey about the 8 essentials of leadership. I scored a 95% on respect. I got a 9% on forgiveness, but that's another issue. I just don't get why people feel the need to be so inconsiderate of other peoples' feelings.
This was made so clear to me in my first period class today. There is a girl in my class, who isn't all the way there. People openly make fun of her, and even my teacher ridicules her regularly. Today, a group of boys in my class were back-handedly making fun of her, and she got really worked up and called them all idiots. The teacher kicked HER out of the room, and left her outside for 15 minutes. I just feel like my teacher is biased to anyone who doesn't either: A.) Play sports, or B.) Plan on joining the military. Those are literally the only thing I ever catch him talking with students about. Music? Academia? Art? All of little to no importance to him. And it's apperent to anyone that looks.
I guess the moral of my rant is just that people need to find it in themselves to respect one other. Putting people down for their differences is not making you look "cool", or "funny". It's making you look like a dick. Cut it out.
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