MagicianCat’s Advice from Roma
Non sum ego qui fueram.
Magician Cat: Pride in Society Research
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Aimee:
Some students who have the best grades are very proud, and they show prejudice towards those who were scored lower in exams. They always laugh and sneer at the other students, and I think this is very unfair! More unfair is the fact that the teachers did not do anything about it!
Jaqualeen:
The boys are always playing pranks and telling bad jokes about girls. Our teachers and the girls can’t even stop them. How annoying! And the boys also like to beat the girls up. They say that girls are useless and ugly. Well, I think boys are making too much trouble in the school and they are idiots about boys and girls!
Alice:
Some classmates like to show off their great knowledge by asking others questions which answers they already know the answers to. I hate to be around those ‘good’ students, because they are annoying. Almost the whole class doesn’t want to be friends with them, until our teacher told us not to be prejudiced towards them. Then we started to play games together and borrow their interesting books. It turns out that controlling our own prejudice can make us feel much better.
Tori:
Everybody has a little pride in their hearts. But last Monday one of my classmates (A) had a fight with another student (B). The reason was that B laughed at A’s singing and grades. That day A got 74.5 on our maths test and he was already fuming. Then his pride got hurt more when B laughed at him. So, try not to hurt others’ pride.
Teacher’s comments:
Well done, Pluvia. These are all excellent examples of the type of pride and prejudice we see in schools. Nicely presented again, great vocabulary choices and mostly mistake-free grammar and punctuation.
One thing, we usually say that someone ‘has prejudice towards’ another person, rather than ‘against’ another person.