Six year ago, our family moved to Burlington, Vermont form Kathmandu, Nepal. After few weeks, I joined the Burlington High School. I was successful soccer play in my high school back to Nepal. So, I told my counselor about my interest and skill about soccer and I mention still willing to join the Varsity team. Next day, my counselor email that coach of Varsity team is willing to watch game. I went to the match after school, after later on he said “Your very good player and I like your skill and tricks but we can’t accept you in varsity”. I was not satisfied with his answer, and I asked the reason behind. He said, I am joined school as a junior student, and to joined the varsity, you have to joined high school as freshman year.
I gave up that team because latterly, I knew it was student privilege/races.
The privilege video we watch at class was real for me. I agreed with first row student have more privileges than last row student in term of nation nation origin and religion. The first row student throw paper ball inside the recycle been easily because they are just in front, but student on back even didn’t saw the recycle so they throw paper ball on head of front row student. We also discussed about who have more and less power on privileges. I am not U.S born, so I have less power than my friend next to who is U.S born. In this case, I will don’t get holiday on my hindu festival but my cristanes friend have holiday on this festival.
I totally disagree with privileges about last row student get less education than front row. In term of education, it depends upon indivisal student and their hardwork. The teacher will teach one level of education in average. As a student, we have to be aware of saying this is not fair or fair in education. I learned, education doesn’t have any privileges on learning more or less. Learning depend on each student interest and partipestation. I think every teacher are fair, and they have same sense to every student in term of education.
I feel unconfertable about ethnicity of people. I am only Asian student at class, and rest student are white, black and others. As a single Asian student, I feel akward to explore myself in class. Some times I feel lost in middle of this conversation about ethnicity. Also we learned who have more power and less on ethiicity. I am in lesspower group, so I may will lose my ability to explore my ethnicity in class with my friends.
Finally, I was not selected to the versity, I thing because of different races. May my coach was willing to make white varsity soccer team. That movement make me to feel and think about soccer. I never try to join the in any soccer team in this community where is no diversity. I have join other group where I see diversity. Lets forget about the privilege on getting education, because every teacher teach as a hole class. let’s be united students in our class and avoid the topic which will sparate our best friend in term of privilege.