School is a really big part of your life. Many children in the United States start going to school at age 5 until they are 18. the experience in school is your growing up life, it shows you what you are and can become later on in life. School has a big impact, every school year you learn something new about yourself. In the book The Color of Water by James McBride Ruth and James describe their experience in school.
Ruth's experience in school was really hard, being a Jew in the south wasn't easy for her. She talks about how she felt like an outcast meaning she felt rejected by society. She wanted to escape from Suffolk a country in Eastern England. Back during the twenty century they had segregated schools of whites/blacks/Jews. Kids were really mean to her they would ask her, "hey Ruth, when did you start being a dirty Jew?" Ruth couldn't stand being made fum of. In the book she states "nobody liked me." Ruth had only one friend. When she was in in 4th grade, a girl came up to her during recces in the school yard an ask her "lets be friends?"and Ruth said "Okay." She was the only friend she had. Her name was France. A genital girl who accepted Ruth's Jewish background. They would be together all the time and she was just her befriend. That was the only friend she had no one accepted Ruth just because of her background.
James experience in school was he felt out of place. As a consequence, James and his siblings were often the sole black student in school, and suffered prejudice of the white people. James would talk to himself and alone. He dove himself into books and music. James discovered jazz during his school life. Embracing it as an escape from judging world, to escape from painful realities. James experienced racism from classmates and teachers. In the story he quotes " We grew accustomed to being the only black or negro in school." Kids in his school would blur out really mean things to him in the back of the classroom they would whisper, "James is a nigger" followed by giggles across the room. James was shy and passive his siblings would stood up when someone would call the nigger, but not James was quiet and only later his anger came out of him.
My school is experience is way different. There is no segregated schools. Everyone gets along and there's no racism we all get along very well enjoy hanging out and not leaving no one out place and always making them feel welcome because they are humans just as I am. I have not experience poverty and school is great for me. Teachers always trying to help their students in what ever they can and students helping out each other. School has so much no a days, many girls fighting too much drugs and alcohol it really sucks because my classmates just think of partying. But there are other students who dedicate so much time time to music and that is great!
Over years things have change. School is important no matte what, never let people get to you. School is a really big part of your life as well as your growing life. Sometimes its not easy but at the end school is worth it.
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