Race

After watching the video clip of the little girls and boys pick which doll they thought was the "nice" doll and which was the "bad" doll was very sad. As such a young age, race is stressed amoung our society. People are learing at such a young age the difference of skin color and expressing that through being a good or bad person. This only carries on through life and people become racist in other ways. From a young age we need to teach the new generations that skin color means nothing. Out society as a whole will be a lot stronger if we focus on other things then race.

Visitor

Two days ago we had a visitor come in to our class. He was telling us about his school compared to mine and I really realized how much I take for as advantage by going to such a good high school like Stevenson. It was so interesting to put the different stats together of high schools that are pretty close to each other. Going to a school like Stevenson, you don't think about really getting a job right after high school-college come first. In the school in Rockford they usually just get a job out of high school and very few go on to college. I also thought the ACT scores were very different. At Stevenson the average students wants a 25-29 or above on their ACT. Many will get tutored, and take the test 3 to 5 times before they get a score they approve. At the other high school a student got a 14 and was hoping to go up so he could get into a community college. We truly are very fortunate to go to such a well educated high school. I think college next year will be a different change for most of us. The demographics will be different and all different types of people of different race, religion and social class will be spread out among the campus.