Lets get one thing straight; I have respect, only to the ones who show respect to me. Yes I understand respect your elders and that rule applies till you cross the line.
The line is drawn once you assume, never assume because all you do is make a butt out of you and me.
I’m not only calling out the adults on campus but also the young adults who act like children. I have one question, as an adult why do you tell us to act like adults but then treat us like kids and then get mad when we react as a kid?
Now there are the young adults here that need to grow up, but then there are the adults that give us a chance to show that just because there are a few bad apples that the whole bunch isn’t rotten.
That’s where assuming comes into play. I’ve been disrespected by many adults here on campus, I’m not going to say names, but you know who you are. Adults need to give us the benefit of the doubt. You were our age once. You know what it’s like to be undermined just because of your age.
Its not fair especially when right off the bat the attitude towards us will only want to make us rebel and want to pick a fight you started.
We understand this is your job and you have to be here every day just like us. But don’t treat us like the dirt under your carpet at home. Some of us don’t even have a home to call a home you have an outside life and so do we.
What if we locked you all in a room all day, treated y’all with no respect and you couldn’t do a thing about it?
We are branded with the bad, and the good doesn’t really matter. Same with appearance: “Oh that kid dresses ghetto he must be in a gang” then you treat them like that but in reality maybe those are hand me downs and that kid you just judge is the next Einstein. You just don’t know.