Social Class

This week in class we have been talking about social class and how that affects our education and who we talk to. Our teacher showed us a lot of graph and statistics about social class and I found it interesting how if your parents have a higher income, you will have a higher ACT score. This shows that if you have a lot of money, then you will a greater chance of getting a better education. Also I have noticed that people with more money mostly talk to people with a lot of money and people of lower class mostly talk to people with less money. No one in our society likes to classify themselves into a class, but everyone knows what class they are in and belong to, but just don't want to talk about it.

Average Girl

For the past couple of days we have been talking about how our society structures girls into thinking horrible things about themselves and making them try to look like someone that is not even real. Our teacher gave us a perfect example, his daughter got new shoes when she was two years old and everyone was like "oh you look so cute in your new shoes". Then next year she got another pair of shoes and then she was the one saying "do I look cute in my shoes". All that is just teaching little girls is that they look cute or pretty by what they wear and not by their personality. No one means to construct girls like this from a young age, but it is happening and people need to start noticing it.