Satire Essay On Teen Education

Teen Education

For you to get a good job so that you can live better than us, you have to be the best in school. It is not very wise to spend all of your holidays playing computer games. You have to study. Look at how good your cousin is doing. He did a great job in school. Why don't you try to be more like him? These were the words that my mother made sure I heard now and then especially when she was angry at some mistake I had done or when she thought I was not working hard enough. In my family, almost each of my older cousins has a good job or is on their way there. Therefore, my folks always want it to sink into my head that the shortcut to a good life is through books. They do this by constantly referring to those who have made it before

These social groups do not have specific criteria to be followed when joining them (Carter 304). The members often join then unconsciously like as if they are drawn to it. The cliques are always many. The rich students would group up together, the baseball players, those based on socioeconomic status and those based on race. Among all of these groups, those of race and ethnic background are the ones that showed a distinct difference in educational performance. As a student in a school with a population consisting of students from different ethnic and racial backgrounds, I can resonate with the concepts of Carter's (304). The concepts include "noncompliant believers," "cultural mainstreamers," and "cultural straddlers". In school students find it easier to spend time with those that they feel share their predicament or identify with their problems. It is because of this that it was easy to find African American students forming a clique and Latinos forming theirs and white students having their own (Oseguera 1140). It is everyone's desire to be around people who are like them. Africans have a history of being a male dominated society. Therefore, one would find more males as being cultural mainstreamers compared to their female counterparts. In fact, most African American females performed well when I was in high school. This is because most of them had no staunch loyalties to any racial or ethnic group, only the ladies clique. Having no loyalties meant that they were free and could, therefore, exploit the best part of both sides. Talk about having your cake and eating it (Oseguera 1151). The male mainstreamers did not like the idea of working too hard and risking looking like a "white boy" but they understood that education was vital, and, therefore, their performance was around average. There was also a clique of those students who hated who they were and never acted or embraced their status and these