Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick The Bullying

When a person thinks about bullying, it usually involves a young kid in a playground and a bigger kid trying to take his or her lunch money. Another instance would be a high-school student on the Internet cyber-bullying another high-school student. What most people do not see is someone of higher power bullying someone under them. Like a boss and an employee, or a teacher and a student, or for my sake, a coach and an athlete. Being bullied can make some people feel the need to end their existence, but some can point out bullying because they know what it is like to have someone be nice to them, and bullies can make their victims so scared of them that the victims do not want to do anything about it. In the book Narrative of the Life of Frederick

To be more specific it started in practice on my sixteenth birthday. We were showing off our competition kick dance routine that we would perform at every competition, when I came down from a leap that I have been doing since I was thirteen years old. I tore a major ligament in my need called the Anterior Cruciate Ligament or ACL. When I fell in the middle of the dance routine I knew that what had happened was not a normal knee injury like I have had before. When my other teammates stopped dancing my coach, Coach Vavra, came up to me to tell me that I could have gotten back in the dance and kept dancing. Little did she know it was very difficult for me to walk. When I told her that I would be out for the rest of the season she acted kind of upset but had a replacement for me immediately. As any other sport at my high school practice was considered a class, my practice was first hour. So initially, you have a grade for your sport practices. Coach Vavra told me that for a fair grade I would need to help her critique the dances to make them better, but every time I did she told me I was wrong when I obviously was not. A few months into the season one of the seniors did the same thing to her knee, although her injury was not due to dance, she was still out for the rest of the season as well. Her name was Jenny; she was also the captain of our dance team. When Jenny pointed out

She was an unbelievably talented coach and turned my team from a losing team into a two-time state and national champion team. My team was the team to beat in the dancing world. To be completely straightforward, my team and I thought Coach Maddox was an awful coach at the time. Until, she left to coach at her old high school dance team and my team received a new coach, Coach Vavra. In the book Life of Frederick Douglass, when Douglass leaves Baltimore the first time he notices when he is getting treated badly, because he knows what it is like to be treated like a real person. (Douglass 50) My mom has always told me that I don’t know what I have until it is gone. I believe that was completely true when my team and I had received our new coach, Coach Vavra. Even some of my teammates told me that they wish Coach Maddox would come back because Coach Vavra was so awful. One day in practice Coach Vavra even told the whole team “screw you” after they were done practicing the competition kick routine, all because they did not practice it up to her