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A failing education system

Society explains that children are cookie cutters, that each child must be the same and to follow the rules. If you are a girl, you are meant to like pink things and Barbie’s, and if you are a boy, you are meant to like blue things and cars. Society draws a box around each child, each child is then told, if you think outside the box, you will be punished. 

Children are taught in school to find “the object that doesn't belong”. We are taught at a young age not to accept things that do not follow the rules. We must stand in line, and follow one after the other, never to fall out of sync. Girls are meant to be nurses, while boys are meant to be doctors, and the educational system gives boys slack. Explaining that “boys will be boys” while girls are sent home and missing out on an education because their skirt wasn't too the floor. 

Our educational system is failing us.

Teaching girls that a boy’s education is more important than their own. Our educational system is teaching us that being different isn't okay, and that being different means you are to never fit in. No wonder half our children have anxiety problems by the time they hit their teenage years.

Society explains that it is okay for boys to rough house when they are younger, and that it is okay to let girls chase them when they are older. When a boy hits a girl, it’s cute because that is his way of showing he “likes her”. But when that boy becomes a man, and then hits a woman, he is then arrested, but society has raised him to believe it is okay.

As we sit here, complaining about how much society as ruined our children, we only have one person to blame. Ourselves. We have allowed for society to ruin children, and we only wanted change when so many children had become corrupted. Parents blame video games for violent children instead of admitting to spending no quality time with them. 

We force our children to play in a world where everyone is the same, and no one likes each other. We forced our children to be scared of those who are different, and we are in a world where different is thriving. If society won’t change, then I, as a parent, will change for my child. Because if the world can’t be accepting, at least home can be.

Mika Mitchell



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