Time where you felt Injustice
During my life growing up, I came from a very strict family. Education was the most important thing and I was held to very high standards. My entire life I wanted to be a teacher, until I looked into Youth Development. Having this conversation with my grandparents and parents was something I dreaded. When telling them, their remarks were, "you will make no money", "you don't have the mindset for that", "you need a job that will cover you for life". The more I tried to explain the more the comments happened. I felt like I didn't even have a voice in my own career. It was super frustrating to feel like what I was doing meant nothing to them. They didn't understand my passion and dedication I have for working with the youth.
If this situation happened again, which is does a lot, I now have the knowledge I didn't have when I first joined this major. I have experiences, I have knowledge from classes, I have an elevator speech. I have ways to back up my response to make sure I am heard. I think educating someone when they do not know is super helpful and makes them understand better. Maybe it is not for everyone, but it is something for me and something I can't wait to become.
My experience connects with other people because we live in a world where the youth, college kids, teenagers, don't have a voice. They are constantly getting told what to do and how to act. School life sets you up to be a follower, to follow the rules, to listen, to do what you are told. I am happy their are non-profits out there that allow the youth to have a voice. To begin to learn how to fight for their rights. I know Youth In Action participated in the walk out for justice last year. That is allowing them the opportunity to be a leader. I read this article about younger children and how they are learning to speak out to their classrooms when they feel an injustice. It then talks about middle and high school and how those children feel and what they can do about it.
http://time.com/4227305/how-to-teach-your-kids-to-stand-up-for-what-they-believe-in/
Below is a list of statistics about the LGBT community.
National studies indicate that young people are strongly impacted by injustice toward the LGBT community:
• LGBT children and youth are five times more likely to miss school because they feel unsafe due to harassment by their classmates
• 28% of LGBT teens drop out of school due to social pressures
• More than one quarter of LGBT youth are left homeless after coming out to their families
. • LGBT youth are three times more likely to commit suicide than other American youth.
I picked this because it shows how people get affected when they feel like they do not have a voice to stand up for what they believe.
If this situation happened again, which is does a lot, I now have the knowledge I didn't have when I first joined this major. I have experiences, I have knowledge from classes, I have an elevator speech. I have ways to back up my response to make sure I am heard. I think educating someone when they do not know is super helpful and makes them understand better. Maybe it is not for everyone, but it is something for me and something I can't wait to become.
My experience connects with other people because we live in a world where the youth, college kids, teenagers, don't have a voice. They are constantly getting told what to do and how to act. School life sets you up to be a follower, to follow the rules, to listen, to do what you are told. I am happy their are non-profits out there that allow the youth to have a voice. To begin to learn how to fight for their rights. I know Youth In Action participated in the walk out for justice last year. That is allowing them the opportunity to be a leader. I read this article about younger children and how they are learning to speak out to their classrooms when they feel an injustice. It then talks about middle and high school and how those children feel and what they can do about it.
http://time.com/4227305/how-to-teach-your-kids-to-stand-up-for-what-they-believe-in/
Below is a list of statistics about the LGBT community.
National studies indicate that young people are strongly impacted by injustice toward the LGBT community:
• LGBT children and youth are five times more likely to miss school because they feel unsafe due to harassment by their classmates
• 28% of LGBT teens drop out of school due to social pressures
• More than one quarter of LGBT youth are left homeless after coming out to their families
. • LGBT youth are three times more likely to commit suicide than other American youth.
I picked this because it shows how people get affected when they feel like they do not have a voice to stand up for what they believe.
Hi Gianna! Thank you for your post. I can really relate to this as when people ask me what I am studying I often get "what is that?" It is a challenge to explain that you want to make a different but I think that is part of the major and why we choice it. At least, that is how I feel. I love how you connected the lost voice to LGBT and the statistics and how they drop out of school. This is a stat we hear about but it not talked about enough. The quote by Julian Assange really hit me hard. Last week my boss got in an yelling match with one of the kids. Obviously my heart is with the child. You should sit down and talk with them, but then again we are talking about the person who is in control of my job and my income so where do we cross the line? I believe it will all get easier as we get our degree but we are still going to have to agree against these injustices ! Thanks for your post.
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