Trista Orban

H. Pines

English 111

27 March 2024

Is This Really the School You Want?”

In the essay “Teaching tolerance in America” by Dudley Erskine Seulin, they talk about how we need to change schools from their problems. They start out by talking about how racial separation is made by the students. They also talk about how they think the school should be run with more security. It says we need to do more drug dog tests around the lockers and cars in the school. They also bring up how we should do single sex classes, and all wear a uniform to lessen the separation between popularity and not with what we are wearing.

In this essay, it talks about how we as students have separated ourselves into groups. These groups are all jocks and geeks, or we separate ourselves based on race. It talks about how the jocks say, “If you’re not a jock in this school... you’re not part of it” (paragraph 5). It goes on to say that the geeks get harassed and bullied the most here. This is not true in all schools but the school they looked at I guess this is what happens. It seems like in this situation it is best to have the single sex classes to see if that helps with all the harassment and bullying coming to the so called “geeks” of the school. …show more content…
Stated in the essay “The problem is that some people think they are better than others”. Which I believe is true. Thats how most teenagers think these days, they think they are better than anyone else, so they think they hold more power over someone, which isn't true. We are all different, but equal. So, the separation of race is due to one race thinking they are better than the other which causes us not to mix in with each