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Why I Hate School

I was staying after school one day, I had to finish an english essay, and I had to sit in the front row with my English teacher. After a few minutes this girl throws open the door and begins to demand the teacher to give her a passing grade, the girl needed to pass the class because if she failed she would not be able to graduate. Then after some arguing the girl grabs sharp scissors from the teachers desk, and basically threatens our teacher to death. This girl was never punished, and she did graduate. Another episode that occurred in my school was when this boy broke into our math teacher’s desk, so that he could steal back his test. He did this because our math teacher refused to grade his test after he was found cheating. Our math teacher decided to tell our principal of the incident, but the principal only made a kangaroo “court” meeting because the boy was an all-star football player. Also, his intelligence shines through because even without the test our teacher would still fail him.The third, but certainly not the final, incident that took place in our school was when a boy was suspended a whole week because he, along with some friends, used the school swimming pool in the summer, mind you the pool was not being used by the swimming team and it was a hot summer. The point is that a student can issue death threats and commit theft, and not be punished; while a student who used a swimming pool during the summer was given a whole week of suspension.

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“From La Voz de UC Berkeley's (Chican@/Latin@ Newspaper) Spring 2009 Issue: “Undocumented Students in Higher Education.”

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I need that stuff that junkies use, you know? When it takes a cop like 15 bullets to put them down.

VEEP

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May God be on your side because the devil is in ours.

Rebeca. E

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Excerpt from Junot Diaz’s acceptance speech

All of us must be free. All of us must be free. All of us must be free. Or none.

Our community is the paragon of strength, of resilience of creativity.

We are the only superpower this country will only know.

We survived everything this world threw at us.

We survived wars, survived dictators, survived torturous and violence, endless violence.

And borders, all the damned borders.

And the loneliness of the newcomers in a new land.

We survived the loss of home, the loss of family, the loss of language.

We survived no one knowing how to say our names.

We survived our parent’s suffering and our parent’s silence.

And their scars that speak louder than the bombs that put them there.

We survived our confusions about who we are, in a country that only seems to speak black and white.

And we survived not speaking English, survived not speaking Spanish, survived not speaking.

And all that damn paperwork, we survived that too.

And we survived the ingratitude of the nation where we settled, the nation we helped build, and for whom we continuously die.

And we survived the infinite heartbreak that is the true story of immigration.

And we survived the agony of not knowing how to bear witness to that story and to ourselves.

And we survived the hate, the hate that never seems to die.

The hate that pretends to be patriotism.

That pretends to be security.

That pretends to be leadership.

A hate that won’t listen to reason, to morality, to compassion.

We survived it all.

We survived it all.

We are the people who survive.

We survived everything.

surviving even the surviving which is the hardest survival of it all.

And in the middle that surviving some of us even learned how to live.

Our story is an epic, a saga, an odyssey.

We cross continents and oceans and every time there was no way we made a way.

We are the children of bridges.

Bridges made from our backs, our tears, our sacrifices.

And from all the ones who never made it across with us.

We in the Latino community are among the greatest hero our world has known.

And yet despite all we do and all we are we find ourselves attacked and demonized and endangered.

Not just in this country, all over the world community like ours are under assault.

And this is why we cannot just survive or live, we have to fight for justice, we have to fight for equality.

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My toilet paper TRUMPS your toilet paper.

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If there is no bread for your own, and you see the abbot very fat, if his virgin wears gold. STRIP HER.

Mago De Oz

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A priest blesses animals at San Anton church in Madrid.

~Rebeca E.