Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Racist or Sexist?
Woodstock's eleventh graders have had issues for the past two years. Issues that confuse new students and old students even today. It all began in tenth grade when the guys all of a sudden got turned off by the girls at Woodstock maybe because of their looks or probably because they intrinsically knew that the girls were to good for them, so why bother. Though at first the problem seemed minor, the girls began to grow curious over how closed off the guys were, and how unfairly rude they were being to students. A girl from last year commented on how a group of around six or seven boys used to pick on girls whenever they would walk by. For the whole of tenth grade, guys would pick on girls, and girls would complain about guys and yet no serious action has taken place. Unfortunately the major issue of last year was sexim, but this year in eleventh grade the issue has matured into racism. A unity meeting was called by the boys, who are also known as the "gay gang." They believed that they were unfairly being blamed for not talking to girls, however, though they were correct and they do talk to girls, their issue is that they only talk to girls of their same religion or culture. For example, if a guy, who is part of the "gay gang", is Nepali, then most like he would only talk to a Nepali girl, hence the racism. Therefore, the issue from last year has migrated to an issue of racism, which has been taking up the conversation topics for not only students, but also for teachers. Certain teachers feel that the "gay gang" should be punished or called upon by the principal. However, its not the teachers who must take action, its the students. We have to yet to see, whose the leader strong enough to complain and control the majority group of guys- the gay gang?
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I think this post is true in many ways but now if your have noticed, not only are some of the guys being racist, even some of the girls are. There are girls who remain un-named who have started talking to people only from their own country/region. Only the guys are not to blame.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you, except I dont think this is the case just in 11th grade, it can be seen in the rest of high school also
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