Bullying in the form of intentionally leaving kids out on purpose has always been an ethically dilemma that I have faced throughout my childhood. The elementary school that I attended from fourth to fifth grade housed all of the deaf and hard of hearing kids in the school district. One day at I noticed that one particular girl in my grade was always by herself against the back of the school during recess while all the other kids were playing on the playground. After asking my friends and the teachers I later found out that she, Veranda, was one of the deaf students and couldn’t play with the other kids because they didn’t know sign language. When I got home that day I asked my mom to take me to the library so I could check out books on sign language, in order to be able to speak to Veranda. …show more content…
I even went as far as to ask my mother to pay for video chat on her phone as Veranda had to have a visual. This experience and my own personal struggles have motivated me to notice the outcast or “the least of these” in every setting. Throughout middle school and high school I could have sometimes been considered an outcast; whether it had been that I was told not to sit at a certain table during lunch, or dealing cliques at school and my extracurricular activities. Throughout my everyday life I strive to treat everybody with respect and as an Upward Sports cheer coach I give each and every girl on my squad an equal opportunity to be their very best instead of picking favorites, because God created each of us with our own set of unique traits and no one person is better than