part 3 || Rule of 3

We all seem so different from each other with different backgrounds and growing up in different places, we are all the same. Our parents always seem no know what is best for us, preaching the future plans they have for us. As children you touch something you are not suppose to touch or you push a button you are not suppose to push, usually for curiosity than to find out you learned a lesson. When we enter school we are encouraged to voice our opinion but yet keep your remarks to yourself. Being disobedient in an educational setting is frowned upon, since your only job is to listen and follow your teachers’ directions. Many don’t see that being disobedient can also be revolutionary like it has been in the past. Speaking freely in class, protesting or not learning the correct way and wanting to change these ways can also look frowned upon. The public school system looks down on anyone who disobeys in the classroom for their individualism.

As we grow up, many of us students go to school to make our parents proud, go to school for what our parents or society want us to become and to get a job that pays well and has good benefits. Keeping quiet and obeying our parents will later realize everything we have done was never for ourselves. In the Passion Project by Skye Ontiveros, Romeo states, “it’s hard for me sometimes because there’s something where they expect you to become what they want to become. No one should tell me what to do but um my mom and my dad is trying to my business in the future and then force me to take it”(3). Along with many other students in the passion project stating that their parents want them to work in a career that has money and than later think of your happiness.

If a teacher does not honor the students voice than no one ever will. Teachers may see it as time consuming a waste of their time. In the clip by TED Ken Robinson mentions how he spoke to a man in the bookstore,

“And he said, "When I got to the senior year of school, my teachers didn't take it seriously. This one teacher didn't take it seriously. He said I was throwing my life away if that's all I chose to do with it; that I should go to college, I should become a professional person, that I had great potential and I was wasting my talent to do that." And he said, "It was humiliating because he said it in front of the whole class and I really felt dreadful. But it's what I wanted, and as soon as I left school, I applied to the fire service and I was accepted."”

Imagine your very own teacher not respecting your belief and doubting something you believe in will definitely make you work harder.